Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 461 475
Rank change year-on-year -42 +14 +7
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 83 308 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.43% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.68% 2.92% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 66 175 135
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £74,721 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +13.04%

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 4,932 10,560 9,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.58% 14.87% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,097 8,172 6,217
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% -

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

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK excluding London.

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

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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 +43 23 £57,500 +15.00% 47
North of England +27 22 £70,000 +40.00% 15
East of England +52 13 £65,000 +30.00% 7
Yorkshire +58 12 £67,500 +43.62% 4
North West -23 8 £74,870 +6.96% 10
Midlands +59 7 £65,000 +18.18% 15
South West -9 7 £71,991 +37.13% 11
Scotland +102 6 £43,750 -47.65% 12
West Midlands +55 5 £65,000 -8.50% 5
Wales +38 5 £47,500 -5.00%
East Midlands +37 2 - - 9
North East - 2 £55,000 - 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.23%) Apache
2 5 (6.02%) Tomcat
3 4 (4.82%) Confluence
3 4 (4.82%) NetWeaver
4 3 (3.61%) nginx
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) AWS
2 12 (14.46%) Azure
3 6 (7.23%) IaaS
4 5 (6.02%) PaaS
5 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.20%) Datadog
7 1 (1.20%) GCP
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.20%) Serverless
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.66%) Firewall
2 11 (13.25%) Cisco ISE
2 11 (13.25%) Ethernet
2 11 (13.25%) MPLS
3 9 (10.84%) DNS
4 6 (7.23%) DHCP
5 4 (4.82%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (4.82%) VoIP
6 3 (3.61%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.61%) SAN
6 3 (3.61%) SSL
7 2 (2.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (2.41%) NAS
7 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.41%) VPN
7 2 (2.41%) VSAN
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.20%) Multicast
8 1 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.02%) MariaDB
3 4 (4.82%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (4.82%) MySQL
3 4 (4.82%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.82%) SAP BW
3 4 (4.82%) SAP Data Services
3 4 (4.82%) SAP HANA
4 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) DB2
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) GitLab
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
1 6 (7.23%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.82%) Git
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.82%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Banking
4 7 (8.43%) Military
5 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Electronics
6 4 (4.82%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Law
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Administrator
2 19 (22.89%) Systems Administrator
3 16 (19.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 15 (18.07%) Linux Administrator
5 13 (15.66%) Architect
5 13 (15.66%) Senior
6 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (12.05%) Security Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Network Architect
9 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) IT Support
10 4 (4.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Unix Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) VMWare Administrator
11 3 (3.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) Web Services
2 3 (3.61%) Middleware
3 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.20%) CSS
4 1 (1.20%) HTML
4 1 (1.20%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) React
4 1 (1.20%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Public Cloud
2 7 (8.43%) Security Posture
3 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.41%) Clustering
6 1 (1.20%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.20%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.20%) IPTV
6 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.20%) MPEG
6 1 (1.20%) PCIe
6 1 (1.20%) Replication
6 1 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (24.10%) Windows
3 14 (16.87%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.43%) CentOS
5 6 (7.23%) AIX
5 6 (7.23%) Ubuntu
5 6 (7.23%) Unix
6 5 (6.02%) Solaris
7 4 (4.82%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.41%) VMS
8 2 (2.41%) zOS
9 1 (1.20%) Debian
9 1 (1.20%) Rocky
9 1 (1.20%) SUSE
9 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (22.89%) DevOps
3 17 (20.48%) Roadmaps
4 14 (16.87%) Configuration Management
5 13 (15.66%) Performance Monitoring
6 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (13.25%) Network Management
8 10 (12.05%) Agile
8 10 (12.05%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.84%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.84%) Containerisation
10 8 (9.64%) Customer Service
10 8 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.43%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.43%) Cloud Security
11 7 (8.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.71%) Python
2 21 (25.30%) Bash
3 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.23%) Java
5 5 (6.02%) C
5 5 (6.02%) Perl
6 3 (3.61%) C++
6 3 (3.61%) PHP
7 2 (2.41%) C#
7 2 (2.41%) R
7 2 (2.41%) SQL
8 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) DV Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) Degree
4 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.82%) CCNA
6 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.41%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.41%) CCNP
7 2 (2.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.41%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.20%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.20%) MCP
8 1 (1.20%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Def Stans
1 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.20%) NCSC
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (24.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.05%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.05%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (10.84%) Docker
4 8 (9.64%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (8.43%) vSphere
6 4 (4.82%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
8 2 (2.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.20%) Firmware
9 1 (1.20%) KVM
9 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (30.12%) Ansible
2 12 (14.46%) Terraform
3 10 (12.05%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.05%) Puppet
4 4 (4.82%) SCOM
4 4 (4.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (4.82%) WSUS
5 3 (3.61%) Graylog
5 3 (3.61%) Nagios
5 3 (3.61%) Rundeck
5 3 (3.61%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.41%) Rancher
6 2 (2.41%) SCCM
6 2 (2.41%) VxRail
7 1 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.20%) Packer
7 1 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (54.22%) Red Hat
2 30 (36.14%) VMware
3 27 (32.53%) Cisco
4 17 (20.48%) Juniper
5 13 (15.66%) Oracle
6 11 (13.25%) SevOne
7 7 (8.43%) IBM
7 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
7 7 (8.43%) NetApp
8 5 (6.02%) Atlassian
9 4 (4.82%) Dell
9 4 (4.82%) Pure Storage
9 4 (4.82%) SAP
10 3 (3.61%) Citrix
10 3 (3.61%) PagerDuty
10 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
10 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.41%) ArcSight
11 2 (2.41%) EMC
11 2 (2.41%) Splunk