Red Hat Job Trends in the South West

Red Hat
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 154 157
Rank change year-on-year -27 +3 +23
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 19 15 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.51% 1.43%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 1.43% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 68
10th Percentile £30,000 £51,000 £37,675
25th Percentile £38,125 £60,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £69,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +31.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £58,125 £69,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,000 - £68,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,472 1,052 2,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.10% 35.89% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 700 576 2,184
10th Percentile £27,363 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,625 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +5.26% +5.05%
75th Percentile £59,313 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,433
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the South West

Red Hat
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the South West

Red Hat
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 March 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 +12 13 £35,000 -49.28% 5
Dorset - 3 £47,500 -
Bristol -7 2 £58,750 -9.62% 3
Wiltshire -4 1 £57,500 - 2
Red Hat
England

Red Hat
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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) OpenShift
3 7 (36.84%) Azure
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) VSAN
2 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 2 (10.53%) LAN
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) AMQP
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) InfluxDB
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Robot Framework
2 4 (21.05%) TestRail
3 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Administrator
1 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) IT Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) IT Support
2 3 (15.79%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Support Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.53%) Playwright
2 2 (10.53%) pytest
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) gRPC
3 1 (5.26%) Material-UI
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Linux
2 10 (52.63%) CentOS
2 10 (52.63%) Windows
3 5 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.26%) CoreOS
6 1 (5.26%) Debian
6 1 (5.26%) Solaris
6 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
1 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
4 4 (21.05%) RBAC
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Test Management
5 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
5 3 (15.79%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (15.79%) Project Planning
5 3 (15.79%) Time Management
6 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Bash
2 12 (63.16%) PowerShell
3 8 (42.11%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.79%) Firmware
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
3 5 (26.32%) Puppet
4 4 (21.05%) Grafana
4 4 (21.05%) Terraform
5 3 (15.79%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (15.79%) SCVMM
6 2 (10.53%) Kibana
6 2 (10.53%) logstash
6 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
7 1 (5.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (21.05%) Splunk
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
2 3 (15.79%) Dell
2 3 (15.79%) McAfee
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Mirantis
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) SaltStack