Red Hat Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 350 296
Rank change year-on-year -78 -54 +137
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 154 182 621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.62% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 0.96% 1.52% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 110 68 184
10th Percentile £40,720 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -12.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,959 12,009 24,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.93% 41.08% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,383 6,600 17,170
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £25,760
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,828
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% -8.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £74,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -13.04%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Red Hat
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the UK excluding London

Red Hat
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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 -35 71 £65,000 - 16
South West -51 33 £60,250 -3.60% 13
North West +17 20 £55,000 - 2
East of England 0 20 £70,000 +21.74% 2
North of England -38 20 £55,000 -11.58% 6
Scotland -2 5 £80,000 +82.86% 1
Midlands -50 5 £26,265 -19.18% 5
East Midlands -35 3 £26,265 -44.71% 4
West Midlands -50 2 - - 1
Red Hat
UK

Red Hat
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 18 (11.69%) Apache
2 14 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.95%) Confluence
6 2 (1.30%) JBoss
6 2 (1.30%) nginx
6 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.65%) Camunda
7 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 70 (45.45%) AWS
2 55 (35.71%) Azure
3 49 (31.82%) OpenShift
4 24 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (14.94%) SaaS
6 18 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.14%) GCP
8 10 (6.49%) Datadog
9 9 (5.84%) GitHub
9 9 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.55%) Serverless
11 5 (3.25%) Apigee
11 5 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.25%) Kong
12 2 (1.30%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (1.30%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 35 (22.73%) Firewall
2 17 (11.04%) DNS
3 13 (8.44%) SAN
4 8 (5.19%) iSCSI
4 8 (5.19%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (3.25%) AMQP
5 5 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (3.25%) LAN
5 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.25%) WAN
6 4 (2.60%) Ethernet
6 4 (2.60%) InfiniBand
6 4 (2.60%) NAS
6 4 (2.60%) NetScaler
6 4 (2.60%) Network Security
6 4 (2.60%) VPN
6 4 (2.60%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.95%) DHCP
7 3 (1.95%) IPv4
7 3 (1.95%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (8.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.49%) MySQL
2 10 (6.49%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.84%) Apache Hive
3 9 (5.84%) Impala
3 9 (5.84%) Parquet
3 9 (5.84%) Spark SQL
3 9 (5.84%) Tableau
4 6 (3.90%) InfluxDB
5 5 (3.25%) Big Data
5 5 (3.25%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.25%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (22.73%) Git
2 25 (16.23%) GitLab
3 10 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.84%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (3.25%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.25%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.25%) Robot Framework
5 5 (3.25%) TestRail
6 4 (2.60%) JIRA
6 4 (2.60%) Selenium
7 2 (1.30%) Subversion
8 1 (0.65%) Ant
8 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.65%) Gradle
8 1 (0.65%) JUnit
8 1 (0.65%) Maven
8 1 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 26 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (13.64%) Finance
3 12 (7.79%) Aerospace
4 11 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.49%) Banking
5 10 (6.49%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.84%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.25%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (26.62%) Linux Engineer
2 28 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (14.29%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 20 (12.99%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (9.74%) Administrator
6 15 (9.74%) DevOps Systems Engineer
6 15 (9.74%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.74%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 14 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (8.44%) Analyst
8 13 (8.44%) Architect
9 12 (7.79%) Applications Architect
9 12 (7.79%) Linux Administrator
9 12 (7.79%) Senior
10 11 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (6.49%) Network Engineer
11 10 (6.49%) Telecoms Engineer
12 9 (5.84%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.44%) RabbitMQ
2 12 (7.79%) Regular Expression
2 12 (7.79%) XMPP
3 10 (6.49%) Jinja
3 10 (6.49%) JSON
3 10 (6.49%) OAuth
3 10 (6.49%) REST
3 10 (6.49%) YAML
4 9 (5.84%) PySpark
5 8 (5.19%) LDAP
5 8 (5.19%) React
5 8 (5.19%) SAML
6 7 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.90%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.90%) Spring
7 6 (3.90%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.25%) gRPC
8 5 (3.25%) Node.js
8 5 (3.25%) Swagger
8 5 (3.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.60%) PKI
5 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 125 (81.17%) Linux
2 59 (38.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 45 (29.22%) Windows
4 42 (27.27%) Ubuntu
5 33 (21.43%) CentOS
6 26 (16.88%) Windows Server
7 18 (11.69%) Unix
8 10 (6.49%) Debian
8 10 (6.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (3.25%) Solaris
10 4 (2.60%) AIX
10 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.95%) CoreOS
11 3 (1.95%) SUSE
12 1 (0.65%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.17%) DevOps
2 47 (30.52%) CI/CD
3 39 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (24.03%) Containerisation
5 34 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (20.13%) Agile
7 22 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (11.04%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (11.04%) Validation
10 16 (10.39%) Scrum
11 15 (9.74%) High Availability
11 15 (9.74%) ITIL
11 15 (9.74%) Observability
12 14 (9.09%) SIEM
13 12 (7.79%) Antivirus Management
13 12 (7.79%) Pattern Matching
13 12 (7.79%) Task Automation
13 12 (7.79%) Time Management
14 11 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 70 (45.45%) Bash
2 53 (34.42%) Python
3 38 (24.68%) PowerShell
4 16 (10.39%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.44%) SQL
6 7 (4.55%) Java
7 6 (3.90%) Korn
8 2 (1.30%) C
8 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.65%) Go
9 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 22 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.49%) RHCE
5 8 (5.19%) Degree
6 5 (3.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.60%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.30%) CCNA
9 2 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.30%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.30%) OSCP
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (3.25%) GDPR
2 5 (3.25%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.30%) SLA
4 1 (0.65%) NCSC
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (22.08%) Docker
2 32 (20.78%) Active Directory
3 20 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (12.99%) vSphere
4 9 (5.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 6 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (2.60%) Firmware
7 4 (2.60%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.60%) Lustre
8 2 (1.30%) Samba
8 2 (1.30%) Squid
8 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.30%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.65%) GPFS
9 1 (0.65%) KVM
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.65%) QEMU
9 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 63 (40.91%) Terraform
2 56 (36.36%) Ansible
3 46 (29.87%) Kubernetes
4 20 (12.99%) Puppet
5 17 (11.04%) Grafana
6 12 (7.79%) Prometheus
7 9 (5.84%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.90%) Nessus
9 5 (3.25%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.60%) Kibana
10 4 (2.60%) logstash
10 4 (2.60%) Podman
10 4 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.95%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.95%) Nagios
11 3 (1.95%) Packer
11 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.95%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 36 (23.38%) VMware
3 16 (10.39%) Cisco
4 15 (9.74%) Oracle
5 12 (7.79%) Dell
6 11 (7.14%) McAfee
7 10 (6.49%) Dynatrace
8 9 (5.84%) Splunk
9 7 (4.55%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.55%) NetApp
10 6 (3.90%) Google
10 6 (3.90%) Juniper
11 5 (3.25%) F5
11 5 (3.25%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.25%) SaltStack
12 4 (2.60%) Citrix
12 4 (2.60%) Mirantis
13 3 (1.95%) EMC
13 3 (1.95%) IBM
13 3 (1.95%) Mellanox