Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 432 392
Rank change year-on-year -47 -40 -21
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 43 127 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.35% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.29% 2.29% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33 69 128
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,125 £43,911 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,336 5,538 5,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.83% 15.39% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 2,930 4,547
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,236
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £45,819 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East +9 15 £50,000 +11.11% 10
East of England +17 11 £43,500 -24.35% 2
South West -22 8 £55,000 -23.60% 8
North West +27 7 £60,000 +50.00% 2
North of England +5 7 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Scotland -5 3 £53,750 +22.86% 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (9.30%) Apache
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) JBoss
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) Cohesity
3 9 (20.93%) OpenShift
3 9 (20.93%) SaaS
4 4 (9.30%) GCP
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.98%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) OCI
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) SAN
2 8 (18.60%) DNS
3 7 (16.28%) VSAN
4 5 (11.63%) HTTP
5 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.98%) AMQP
6 3 (6.98%) DHCP
6 3 (6.98%) Firewall
6 3 (6.98%) LAN
6 3 (6.98%) Skype
6 3 (6.98%) WAN
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (4.65%) VoIP
8 1 (2.33%) ATM
8 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.33%) Multicast
8 1 (2.33%) tcpdump
8 1 (2.33%) VLAN
8 1 (2.33%) VPN
8 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) Big Data
3 3 (6.98%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.98%) MySQL
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) Ant
4 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
4 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Aerospace
3 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Electronics
4 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Military
5 1 (2.33%) Advertising
5 1 (2.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Linux Engineer
2 15 (34.88%) Support Engineer
3 14 (32.56%) Linux Support
3 14 (32.56%) Linux Support Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Administrator
5 5 (11.63%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (9.30%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (9.30%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) Product Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Product Specialist
6 4 (9.30%) Products Support Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Products Support Specialist
6 4 (9.30%) Support Specialist
7 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.65%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
1 3 (6.98%) gRPC
1 3 (6.98%) Material-UI
1 3 (6.98%) Node.js
1 3 (6.98%) OpenAPI
1 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (6.98%) React
1 3 (6.98%) REST
1 3 (6.98%) Spring
1 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
1 3 (6.98%) Swagger
2 2 (4.65%) Kafka
2 2 (4.65%) Middleware
3 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
1 4 (9.30%) Video on Demand
1 4 (9.30%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (6.98%) Blackberry
2 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.98%) PKI
2 3 (6.98%) Replication
2 3 (6.98%) RSA SecurID
3 2 (4.65%) Clustering
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (41.86%) CentOS
3 13 (30.23%) Unix
4 12 (27.91%) Windows
5 11 (25.58%) Debian
6 10 (23.26%) Solaris
7 9 (20.93%) Windows Server
8 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
8 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (4.65%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (16.28%) Service Delivery
3 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
3 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
3 6 (13.95%) ITIL
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (11.63%) Migration
4 5 (11.63%) Time Management
5 4 (9.30%) Agile
5 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (9.30%) DevOps
5 4 (9.30%) High Availability
5 4 (9.30%) Service Management
6 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.98%) Microservices
6 3 (6.98%) Open Source
6 3 (6.98%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (6.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (6.98%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) Python
2 24 (55.81%) Bash
3 10 (23.26%) Perl
4 9 (20.93%) Korn
5 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.63%) PHP
6 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.98%) Java
7 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.65%) SQL
9 1 (2.33%) Groovy
9 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (53.49%) Security Cleared
2 16 (37.21%) DV Cleared
3 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.33%) RHCE
7 1 (2.33%) RHCSA
7 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) SLA
2 2 (4.65%) Def Stans
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.28%) Docker
4 4 (9.30%) vSphere
5 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.65%) KVM
7 1 (2.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (2.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) Ansible
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (16.28%) Puppet
4 6 (13.95%) Terraform
5 3 (6.98%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (6.98%) Nagios
5 3 (6.98%) Podman
5 3 (6.98%) SCOM
5 3 (6.98%) SCVMM
5 3 (6.98%) WSUS
6 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
7 1 (2.33%) Grafana
7 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Red Hat
2 17 (39.53%) VMware
3 8 (18.60%) NetApp
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco
5 3 (6.98%) Google
5 3 (6.98%) HP
5 3 (6.98%) McAfee
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle
5 3 (6.98%) SaltStack
6 2 (4.65%) Dell
6 2 (4.65%) Mirantis
7 1 (2.33%) ArcSight
7 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.33%) Siemens
7 1 (2.33%) Splunk