Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 252 306
Rank change year-on-year +1 +54 -15
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 55 42 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.35% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.57% 3.24% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 53 29 62
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £38,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +36.67% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile - £71,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.37%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,204 1,297 2,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.66% 15.09% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,008 2,156
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,675 £26,022
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £51,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,061 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,192 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% -6.24% -14.29%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South East

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Thames Valley +41 35 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Berkshire +45 27 £67,500 -20.59% 2
Hampshire -48 9 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Buckinghamshire -16 8 £70,000 -
West Sussex -15 6 £70,000 - 1
Surrey -33 5 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.91%) OpenStack
3 5 (9.09%) Confluence
4 2 (3.64%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (16.36%) Azure
3 8 (14.55%) AWS
4 7 (12.73%) Azure Stack
5 5 (9.09%) SaaS
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (60.00%) Firewall
2 32 (58.18%) DNS
3 16 (29.09%) SAN
4 11 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (14.55%) iSCSI
5 8 (14.55%) NAS
5 8 (14.55%) NetScaler
5 8 (14.55%) Wireshark
6 5 (9.09%) HTTP
7 2 (3.64%) Network Security
7 2 (3.64%) PBX
7 2 (3.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) MySQL
1 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
1 7 (12.73%) GitLab
1 7 (12.73%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Applications Architect
1 20 (36.36%) Architect
2 14 (25.45%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (25.45%) Security Architect
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 9 (16.36%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Site Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Security Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Lead
6 5 (9.09%) Linux Support
6 5 (9.09%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Team Leader
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Design Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Security Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (1.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) Regular Expression
2 19 (34.55%) LDAP
2 19 (34.55%) XMPP
3 7 (12.73%) ARM Templates
3 7 (12.73%) JSON
3 7 (12.73%) JSON Schema
3 7 (12.73%) XML
4 2 (3.64%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) PKI
2 8 (14.55%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (65.45%) Windows
2 36 (65.45%) Windows Server
3 18 (32.73%) CentOS
4 10 (18.18%) Ubuntu
5 7 (12.73%) Debian
6 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.45%) VMS
8 2 (3.64%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) SIEM
2 19 (34.55%) Validation
3 18 (32.73%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (29.09%) Antivirus Management
4 16 (29.09%) Application Security
4 16 (29.09%) Pattern Matching
5 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (25.45%) Architectural Design
6 14 (25.45%) CI/CD
6 14 (25.45%) DevOps
7 13 (23.64%) ITIL
8 12 (21.82%) Agile
8 12 (21.82%) High Availability
8 12 (21.82%) Resource Management
8 12 (21.82%) Server Management
9 9 (16.36%) Observability
10 8 (14.55%) Time Management
11 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (12.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) Bash
2 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 15 (27.27%) Python
3 10 (18.18%) PHP
4 7 (12.73%) Shell Script
5 6 (10.91%) Korn
6 5 (9.09%) Perl
7 2 (3.64%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (61.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (49.09%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.64%) RHCE
4 2 (3.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (67.27%) Active Directory
2 27 (49.09%) vSphere
3 21 (38.18%) Docker
4 8 (14.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (9.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Samba
6 2 (3.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (41.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (27.27%) Ansible
3 10 (18.18%) Terraform
4 7 (12.73%) Nagios
4 7 (12.73%) ZABBIX
5 6 (10.91%) Puppet
6 5 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (9.09%) Grafana
6 5 (9.09%) Podman
7 2 (3.64%) FlexNet
7 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (58.18%) Microsoft
2 29 (52.73%) Red Hat
3 27 (49.09%) VMware
4 15 (27.27%) McAfee
5 10 (18.18%) NetApp
6 8 (14.55%) Citrix
6 8 (14.55%) Dell
7 7 (12.73%) Splunk
8 2 (3.64%) D-Link