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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 484 486
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +13
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 86 307 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.73% 2.90% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 64 171 130
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £36,086
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £75,460 £63,750 £63,125
90th Percentile £79,625 £71,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £64,140
% change year-on-year +22.73% -14.25% +11.55%

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 4,974 10,593 9,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.79% 14.38% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,889 8,158 6,058
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 28 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 28 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 +46 32 £57,500 +15.00% 46
North of England +7 21 £70,000 +40.00% 45
East of England +50 12 £71,250 +42.50% 20
Yorkshire +51 11 £70,000 +48.15% 22
Midlands +50 8 £61,250 +11.36% 24
North West -23 8 £74,870 +6.96% 20
Scotland +117 5 £37,500 -55.13% 13
West Midlands +58 5 £65,000 -8.50% 10
Wales +43 4 £47,500 -5.00% 3
South West -2 4 £67,246 +28.09% 21
East Midlands +35 3 £47,500 +35.71% 12
North East +49 2 £55,000 +46.67% 3
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 12 (13.95%) Apache
2 5 (5.81%) Confluence
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.49%) nginx
4 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.16%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.12%) AWS
2 12 (13.95%) Azure
3 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.65%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.49%) IaaS
6 2 (2.33%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.33%) PaaS
6 2 (2.33%) SaaS
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub
7 1 (1.16%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.16%) Serverless
7 1 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.95%) Firewall
2 11 (12.79%) Cisco ISE
2 11 (12.79%) Ethernet
2 11 (12.79%) MPLS
3 8 (9.30%) DNS
4 7 (8.14%) DHCP
5 6 (6.98%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (4.65%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (4.65%) VoIP
7 3 (3.49%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (3.49%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (3.49%) SAN
7 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.33%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.33%) NAS
8 2 (2.33%) SSL
9 1 (1.16%) RTP
9 1 (1.16%) RTSP
9 1 (1.16%) VPN
9 1 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) MariaDB
1 5 (5.81%) MySQL
2 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.65%) RDBMS
2 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.16%) DB2
4 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.16%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.16%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) GitLab
2 6 (6.98%) JIRA
2 6 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (5.81%) Git
3 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.16%) MSI
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Finance
3 8 (9.30%) Banking
4 7 (8.14%) Military
5 5 (5.81%) Electronics
6 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Law
7 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Administrator
2 18 (20.93%) Systems Administrator
3 15 (17.44%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 14 (16.28%) Linux Administrator
5 12 (13.95%) Architect
5 12 (13.95%) Senior
6 10 (11.63%) Security Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Network Architect
9 6 (6.98%) IT Support
9 6 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) VMWare Administrator
11 3 (3.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.33%) Middleware
2 1 (1.16%) .NET
2 1 (1.16%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.16%) CSS
2 1 (1.16%) HTML
2 1 (1.16%) Node.js
2 1 (1.16%) React
2 1 (1.16%) REST
2 1 (1.16%) Web Services
2 1 (1.16%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.14%) Public Cloud
2 7 (8.14%) Security Posture
3 6 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.81%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.49%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.16%) Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.16%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.16%) IPTV
6 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.16%) MPEG
6 1 (1.16%) PCIe
6 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (25.58%) Windows
3 14 (16.28%) CentOS
4 10 (11.63%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.14%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.65%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (3.49%) Solaris
7 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.33%) AIX
8 2 (2.33%) Debian
8 2 (2.33%) Unix
8 2 (2.33%) VMS
9 1 (1.16%) Rocky
9 1 (1.16%) SUSE
9 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.91%) DevOps
2 16 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (18.60%) Roadmaps
3 14 (16.28%) Configuration Management
4 13 (15.12%) Performance Monitoring
5 11 (12.79%) Network Management
6 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
7 9 (10.47%) Computer Science
7 9 (10.47%) Containerisation
7 9 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (9.30%) Agile
8 8 (9.30%) Batch Scripting
8 8 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.14%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.14%) Cloud Security
9 7 (8.14%) Customer Service
9 7 (8.14%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (6.98%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.74%) Python
2 22 (25.58%) Bash
3 11 (12.79%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.47%) PHP
5 5 (5.81%) Perl
6 4 (4.65%) Java
7 3 (3.49%) C++
8 2 (2.33%) C
8 2 (2.33%) C#
8 2 (2.33%) R
8 2 (2.33%) SQL
9 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.16%) Korn
9 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.93%) DV Cleared
3 14 (16.28%) Degree
4 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.81%) CCNA
7 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.49%) MCSE
8 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.33%) A+ Certification
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.16%) CCNP
10 1 (1.16%) HP ASE
10 1 (1.16%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) Def Stans
2 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.16%) NCSC
3 1 (1.16%) NIST
3 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.79%) Docker
3 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (8.14%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (8.14%) vSphere
5 4 (4.65%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (1.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 32 (37.21%) Ansible
2 14 (16.28%) Terraform
3 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
4 11 (12.79%) Puppet
5 4 (4.65%) SCOM
6 3 (3.49%) Graylog
6 3 (3.49%) Nagios
6 3 (3.49%) Rundeck
6 3 (3.49%) WSUS
7 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.33%) Rancher
7 2 (2.33%) SCCM
8 1 (1.16%) Grafana
8 1 (1.16%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.16%) Packer
8 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.16%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 45 (52.33%) Red Hat
2 32 (37.21%) VMware
3 28 (32.56%) Cisco
4 17 (19.77%) Juniper
5 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
5 11 (12.79%) SevOne
6 9 (10.47%) Oracle
7 7 (8.14%) NetApp
8 6 (6.98%) Atlassian
9 4 (4.65%) Dell
9 4 (4.65%) IBM
9 4 (4.65%) Pure Storage
9 4 (4.65%) Splunk
10 3 (3.49%) Citrix
10 3 (3.49%) PagerDuty
10 3 (3.49%) Palo Alto
10 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.33%) ArcSight
11 2 (2.33%) Veritas
12 1 (1.16%) Commvault