Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 130 212
Rank change year-on-year -15 +82 -20
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.10% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.38% 4.41% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £37,375 £68,131
25th Percentile £62,500 £39,063 £75,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,750 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -47.65% +78.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £49,063 £91,934
90th Percentile - £51,125 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 218 295 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.45% 12.15% 14.30%
Number of salaries quoted 89 169 375
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,100 £25,200
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £54,423 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +8.87% -1.40%
75th Percentile £55,625 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,360 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,450 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.20% +10.42% -9.52%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Scotland

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Ayrshire - 2 £65,000 - 1
Glasgow +6 1 - -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) ATM
1 2 (66.67%) Multicast
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) tcpdump
1 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware