Red Hat Job Trends in the South East

Red Hat
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 198 206
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +111
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 81 80 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.55% 1.03% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 2.14% 2.45% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 66 24 46
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +40.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

All Vendors
South East

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,782 3,265 6,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.81% 41.84% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,335 1,758 4,487
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the South East

Red Hat
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the South East over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the South East

Red Hat
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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 +67 63 £65,000 -7.14% 16
Berkshire +57 55 £65,000 - 14
Buckinghamshire -3 8 £70,000 - 2
West Sussex -13 8 £50,000 -33.33%
Hampshire -82 8 £80,000 +77.78% 4
Surrey -22 2 - - 2
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
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 (9.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (45.68%) AWS
1 37 (45.68%) Azure
2 32 (39.51%) OpenShift
3 27 (33.33%) SaaS
4 24 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (19.75%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (9.88%) Datadog
6 8 (9.88%) GitHub
6 8 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.17%) Apigee
7 5 (6.17%) Kong
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 36 (44.44%) Firewall
2 18 (22.22%) DNS
3 12 (14.81%) SAN
4 10 (12.35%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (9.88%) iSCSI
6 5 (6.17%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (4.94%) NAS
7 4 (4.94%) NetScaler
7 4 (4.94%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.47%) Network Security
8 2 (2.47%) PBX
8 2 (2.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.88%) MySQL
2 8 (9.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Hive
3 2 (2.47%) Impala
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.47%) Parquet
3 2 (2.47%) Spark SQL
3 2 (2.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (22.22%) GitLab
2 15 (18.52%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 18 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Finance
6 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (37.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (29.63%) Linux Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) Applications Architect
3 16 (19.75%) Architect
3 16 (19.75%) DevOps Systems Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 16 (19.75%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Security Architect
5 11 (13.58%) Senior
6 10 (12.35%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Network Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Telecoms Engineer
7 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (9.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Automation Specialist
8 6 (7.41%) Junior
8 6 (7.41%) Network Specialist
8 6 (7.41%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.22%) Regular Expression
1 18 (22.22%) XMPP
2 14 (17.28%) LDAP
3 12 (14.81%) JSON
4 10 (12.35%) Jinja
4 10 (12.35%) YAML
5 8 (9.88%) OAuth
5 8 (9.88%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (9.88%) SAML
6 7 (8.64%) XML
7 5 (6.17%) REST
7 5 (6.17%) YANG
8 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.94%) Loki
9 2 (2.47%) JSON Schema
9 2 (2.47%) PySpark
10 1 (1.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (9.88%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.41%) PKI
4 5 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.70%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (75.31%) Linux
2 30 (37.04%) Ubuntu
3 26 (32.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (32.10%) Windows
3 26 (32.10%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.35%) CentOS
5 8 (9.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (6.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.21%) DevOps
2 28 (34.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 20 (24.69%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (23.46%) Validation
6 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 16 (19.75%) Antivirus Management
7 16 (19.75%) Pattern Matching
8 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.28%) SIEM
10 13 (16.05%) Observability
11 12 (14.81%) Agile
11 12 (14.81%) Application Security
11 12 (14.81%) Architectural Design
11 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (14.81%) Resource Management
11 12 (14.81%) Server Management
12 10 (12.35%) API Management
12 10 (12.35%) Task Automation
13 8 (9.88%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 42 (51.85%) Bash
2 24 (29.63%) PowerShell
3 16 (19.75%) Python
4 6 (7.41%) Korn
5 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.47%) C
6 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.93%) DV Cleared
3 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.47%) RHCE
5 2 (2.47%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.47%) SLA
2 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 26 (32.10%) Active Directory
2 25 (30.86%) vSphere
3 16 (19.75%) Docker
4 8 (9.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.47%) Samba
Systems Management
1 38 (46.91%) Terraform
2 29 (35.80%) Ansible
2 29 (35.80%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.81%) Grafana
3 12 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.88%) Nessus
5 7 (8.64%) vCenter Server
6 4 (4.94%) Argo
6 4 (4.94%) Kustomize
6 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (39.51%) Microsoft
2 26 (32.10%) VMware
3 14 (17.28%) McAfee
4 10 (12.35%) Cisco
5 8 (9.88%) Dell
5 8 (9.88%) Dynatrace
6 5 (6.17%) F5
6 5 (6.17%) Juniper
6 5 (6.17%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.94%) Citrix
7 4 (4.94%) NetApp
8 2 (2.47%) D-Link
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle