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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 444 510
Rank change year-on-year -58 +66 -63
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 123 97 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.74% 1.89% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 102 69 175
10th Percentile £41,675 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,875 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,222 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.00%

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 4,483 5,132 10,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.26% 15.18% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,496 3,306 7,841
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,987 £70,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.61% -12.38%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +1 55 £67,500 +9.76% 10
North of England -23 31 £65,000 - 14
North West +14 24 £47,500 -36.56% 11
South West -45 15 £75,000 +20.00% 10
Scotland +16 10 £46,000 +8.24% 2
Midlands -23 6 £75,000 +30.43% 4
East of England -13 5 £55,000 -16.98% 2
East Midlands -36 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Yorkshire -42 4 £97,500 +50.00% 2
North East -53 3 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -32 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.88%) Apache
2 6 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.07%) Confluence
4 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.20%) AWS
2 23 (18.70%) Azure
3 11 (8.94%) GitHub
4 10 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.50%) IaaS
6 7 (5.69%) Azure Stack
7 5 (4.07%) GCP
7 5 (4.07%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.07%) SaaS
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.25%) Serverless
9 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.81%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.81%) OCI
10 1 (0.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (29.27%) DNS
2 33 (26.83%) Firewall
3 20 (16.26%) SAN
4 14 (11.38%) Wireshark
5 11 (8.94%) Remote Desktop
6 9 (7.32%) TCP/IP
7 8 (6.50%) iSCSI
7 8 (6.50%) NAS
7 8 (6.50%) NetScaler
8 6 (4.88%) ATM
8 6 (4.88%) Multicast
8 6 (4.88%) tcpdump
9 5 (4.07%) HTTP
10 4 (3.25%) AMQP
11 3 (2.44%) DHCP
11 3 (2.44%) LAN
11 3 (2.44%) VPN
11 3 (2.44%) VSAN
11 3 (2.44%) WAN
12 2 (1.63%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.50%) MySQL
3 4 (3.25%) Big Data
3 4 (3.25%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (3.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (16.26%) Git
2 17 (13.82%) GitLab
3 13 (10.57%) Jenkins
4 10 (8.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (6.50%) JIRA
6 2 (1.63%) Artifactory
General
1 46 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.01%) Aerospace
4 13 (10.57%) Finance
5 11 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (8.94%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (8.13%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.88%) Automotive
7 6 (4.88%) Spanish Language
8 5 (4.07%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (17.07%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (16.26%) Applications Architect
2 20 (16.26%) Architect
3 16 (13.01%) Senior
4 14 (11.38%) Security Architect
5 10 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.13%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.13%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Administrator
7 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Site Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Deployment Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Lead
8 6 (4.88%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.07%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.70%) Regular Expression
2 19 (15.45%) LDAP
2 19 (15.45%) XMPP
3 7 (5.69%) ARM Templates
3 7 (5.69%) JSON
3 7 (5.69%) JSON Schema
3 7 (5.69%) XML
4 4 (3.25%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.25%) gRPC
4 4 (3.25%) Material-UI
4 4 (3.25%) Node.js
4 4 (3.25%) OpenAPI
4 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.25%) React
4 4 (3.25%) REST
4 4 (3.25%) Spring
4 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.25%) Swagger
5 2 (1.63%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) PKI
3 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.07%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.63%) Replication
6 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Clustering
7 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (40.65%) Windows
3 42 (34.15%) Windows Server
4 37 (30.08%) CentOS
5 17 (13.82%) Ubuntu
6 14 (11.38%) Debian
7 11 (8.94%) Unix
8 8 (6.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (4.88%) AIX
10 5 (4.07%) OpenVMS
11 4 (3.25%) Rocky
12 3 (2.44%) CoreOS
12 3 (2.44%) Solaris
12 3 (2.44%) VMS
12 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.64%) DevOps
2 33 (26.83%) CI/CD
3 32 (26.02%) SIEM
4 29 (23.58%) Platform Engineering
5 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (20.33%) Validation
7 22 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (17.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 20 (16.26%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (15.45%) ITIL
10 16 (13.01%) Agile
10 16 (13.01%) Antivirus Management
10 16 (13.01%) Application Security
10 16 (13.01%) High Availability
10 16 (13.01%) Pattern Matching
11 15 (12.20%) Observability
12 14 (11.38%) Architectural Design
12 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (11.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.27%) Python
2 29 (23.58%) Bash
3 22 (17.89%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.13%) PHP
5 8 (6.50%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.88%) Korn
7 5 (4.07%) Perl
8 4 (3.25%) Java
8 4 (3.25%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.63%) C
9 2 (1.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (49.59%) Security Cleared
2 43 (34.96%) DV Cleared
3 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.57%) Degree
5 10 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.63%) RHCE
6 2 (1.63%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.63%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (34.15%) Active Directory
2 39 (31.71%) Docker
3 27 (21.95%) vSphere
4 11 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (6.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (4.88%) KVM
7 5 (4.07%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.44%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.63%) Samba
9 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.63%) Xen
10 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (36.59%) Kubernetes
2 44 (35.77%) Ansible
3 37 (30.08%) Terraform
4 25 (20.33%) Puppet
5 8 (6.50%) Nagios
6 7 (5.69%) Podman
6 7 (5.69%) ZABBIX
7 6 (4.88%) Grafana
8 5 (4.07%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (2.44%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.63%) FlexNet
10 2 (1.63%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.63%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.63%) Rancher
11 1 (0.81%) Graylog
11 1 (0.81%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 76 (61.79%) Red Hat
2 39 (31.71%) VMware
3 37 (30.08%) Microsoft
4 18 (14.63%) McAfee
5 12 (9.76%) NetApp
6 8 (6.50%) Citrix
6 8 (6.50%) Dell
7 7 (5.69%) Splunk
8 5 (4.07%) Google
9 4 (3.25%) SaltStack
10 3 (2.44%) Oracle
11 2 (1.63%) D-Link
11 2 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.63%) Mirantis
11 2 (1.63%) Veeam
12 1 (0.81%) Commvault
12 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.81%) Zerto