Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 154 187
Rank change year-on-year -40 +33 -6
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 17 4 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.14% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.93% 0.87% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 66
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £37,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +19.05% -2.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,625 £58,750
90th Percentile - £78,250 £63,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -15.38%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 580 462 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.60% 16.57% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 375 301 1,264
10th Percentile £27,525 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,551 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% -15.79% +0.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 West.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the South West

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Bristol - 11 £75,000 - 1
Gloucestershire -21 6 £55,000 -10.20% 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
England

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) AMQP
1 2 (11.76%) DHCP
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) LAN
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
1 2 (11.76%) VSAN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Big Data
1 2 (11.76%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) DBA
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.76%) gRPC
1 2 (11.76%) Material-UI
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
1 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (11.76%) React
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
1 2 (11.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (58.82%) Unix
3 5 (29.41%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) CentOS
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (11.76%) CoreOS
6 2 (11.76%) Debian
6 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (5.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (35.29%) Observability
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
4 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Operational Stability
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Time Management
7 2 (11.76%) API Development
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) Open Source
7 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Terraform
2 11 (64.71%) Puppet
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.76%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (11.76%) SCVMM
5 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
5 1 (5.88%) Nagios
5 1 (5.88%) Packer
5 1 (5.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) McAfee
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.88%) Mirantis