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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 161 161
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +15
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 30 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.16% 0.72% 1.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.52% 3.67% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 35
10th Percentile £47,250 £65,350 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £68,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +37.13% -22.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £74,164 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,750 £77,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

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 527 818 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.41% 19.68% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 301 501 754
10th Percentile £26,500 £10,258 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,625
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 13 January 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 13 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
Gloucestershire +22 7 £56,250 -18.48% 4
Bristol -11 1 £55,000 -23.60% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VSAN
2 3 (37.50%) DHCP
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (62.50%) CentOS
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (25.00%) CoreOS
5 2 (25.00%) Unix
6 1 (12.50%) Solaris
6 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Time Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Bash
3 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (37.50%) SCVMM
2 2 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (25.00%) Nagios
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Podman
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) McAfee
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Mirantis
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto