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 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 190 236
Rank change year-on-year -67 +46 +74
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 13 120 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 1.34% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 3.60% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9 48 40
10th Percentile £46,375 £37,500 £40,750
25th Percentile - £47,735 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,875 £64,250
90th Percentile £68,400 £82,500 £76,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -5.62%

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 3,233 3,337 3,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.15% 37.17% 38.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,744 2,611
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £61,375
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,875 £73,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

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 January 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 January 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 +3 11 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Berkshire -10 6 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £69,000 +15.00%
Oxfordshire +18 1 £33,750 -43.75%
Kent -12 1 £55,000 +4.76%
Hampshire -38 1 - - 5
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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) Camunda
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (7.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) SaaS
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) IaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.69%) OCI
6 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
3 1 (7.69%) NAS
3 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
3 1 (7.69%) PBX
3 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Ant
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps Systems Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) Nightwatchjs
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Ubuntu
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) Product Discovery
4 1 (7.69%) RBAC
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Management
4 1 (7.69%) User Research
4 1 (7.69%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Korn
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) RHCE
3 1 (7.69%) RHCSA
3 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (7.69%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) SCCM
4 1 (7.69%) AirWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (7.69%) SCOM
4 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
4 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Juniper
3 1 (7.69%) Mitel
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Pure Storage
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Veeam
3 1 (7.69%) Veritas