Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 502 422
Rank change year-on-year +32 -80 +71
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 162 249 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.38% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.15% 2.75% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 105 158 246
10th Percentile £46,175 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +2.29% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,140 9,062 8,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 13.85% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 5,314 7,313
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,868 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 November 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
England +39 153 £67,500 +3.11% 43
London +76 90 £85,000 - 20
UK excluding London -3 66 £56,250 -2.17% 39
Work from Home +65 56 £80,000 +39.13% 19
South East +30 26 £60,500 +34.44% 23
East of England +30 12 £43,000 -22.52% 2
North of England +37 11 £65,000 -0.71%
South West -4 7 £56,250 -25.00% 7
North West +47 6 £60,000 -8.35%
Midlands +42 6 £57,500 +43.75% 4
East Midlands +19 5 £57,500 +43.75%
Yorkshire +3 5 £65,000 -0.71%
Scotland -1 5 £53,750 -37.68% 3
West Midlands +49 1 £52,500 -19.80% 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (13.58%) Tomcat
2 20 (12.35%) WebSphere
3 18 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (9.88%) WebSphere Application Server
5 11 (6.79%) Apache
6 5 (3.09%) IIS
7 4 (2.47%) Confluence
8 3 (1.85%) JBoss
8 3 (1.85%) Skype for Business
9 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (1.23%) nginx
9 2 (1.23%) WildFly
10 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.36%) AWS
2 33 (20.37%) Azure
3 17 (10.49%) OpenShift
4 16 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (8.02%) GitHub
6 11 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (6.79%) Cohesity
7 10 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.56%) Serverless
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.32%) Route 53
10 7 (4.32%) SaaS
11 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (3.70%) GCP
11 6 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.47%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.81%) Firewall
2 23 (14.20%) SAN
3 18 (11.11%) DNS
4 17 (10.49%) SSL
5 15 (9.26%) LAN
5 15 (9.26%) WAN
6 14 (8.64%) TCP/IP
7 11 (6.79%) DHCP
7 11 (6.79%) Multicast
8 9 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
8 9 (5.56%) iSCSI
8 9 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (4.32%) VSAN
10 3 (1.85%) Skype
10 3 (1.85%) VPN
11 2 (1.23%) HTTP
11 2 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (1.23%) PBX
11 2 (1.23%) SNMP
11 2 (1.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 27 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.11%) DB2
3 12 (7.41%) MySQL
4 7 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.85%) Big Data
5 3 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (15.43%) Git
2 18 (11.11%) GitLab
3 12 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.32%) JIRA
5 5 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.85%) Ant
6 3 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.85%) Maven
6 3 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.62%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.62%) TestRail
General
1 57 (35.19%) Finance
2 41 (25.31%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.58%) Banking
4 13 (8.02%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.17%) Front Office
5 10 (6.17%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.47%) Advertising
6 4 (2.47%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Electronics
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Military
8 2 (1.23%) Retail
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Automotive
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (27.16%) Linux Engineer
2 38 (23.46%) Administrator
3 29 (17.90%) Linux Support
4 25 (15.43%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (11.73%) Support Engineer
6 17 (10.49%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.49%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (9.88%) Linux Support Engineer
8 15 (9.26%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (8.64%) Senior
10 13 (8.02%) Unix Support
11 12 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
12 11 (6.79%) VMware Engineer
13 10 (6.17%) C++ Developer
13 10 (6.17%) Developer
13 10 (6.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
13 10 (6.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 10 (6.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.11%) LDAP
2 16 (9.88%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (9.88%) WebSphere MQ
3 10 (6.17%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (5.56%) Kafka
5 8 (4.94%) Middleware
6 4 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.47%) REST
7 3 (1.85%) LAMP
8 2 (1.23%) .NET
8 2 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.23%) gRPC
8 2 (1.23%) Material-UI
8 2 (1.23%) Node.js
8 2 (1.23%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.23%) React
8 2 (1.23%) Spring
8 2 (1.23%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.90%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.35%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.79%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.17%) Derivative
6 9 (5.56%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.70%) Clustering
7 6 (3.70%) Driving Licence
8 5 (3.09%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.47%) Video on Demand
9 4 (2.47%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.85%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.85%) PKI
10 3 (1.85%) Replication
10 3 (1.85%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.23%) FPGA
11 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 162 (100.00%) Linux
2 69 (42.59%) Windows
3 36 (22.22%) CentOS
3 36 (22.22%) Unix
4 28 (17.28%) Windows Server
5 24 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (8.64%) Solaris
7 13 (8.02%) Ubuntu
8 11 (6.79%) Debian
9 9 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (4.32%) Windows 10
12 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (2.47%) AIX
13 4 (2.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (1.85%) CoreOS
14 3 (1.85%) HPUX
15 2 (1.23%) VMS
16 1 (0.62%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.62%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (30.86%) ITIL
2 37 (22.84%) DevOps
3 29 (17.90%) Containerisation
4 25 (15.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 24 (14.81%) Change Management
6 23 (14.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (11.73%) Low Latency
8 19 (11.73%) Release Management
9 16 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (9.26%) Incident Response
10 15 (9.26%) Time Management
11 14 (8.64%) Agile
11 14 (8.64%) CI/CD
12 13 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.41%) Configuration Management
14 11 (6.79%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 78 (48.15%) Python
2 57 (35.19%) Bash
3 27 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 17 (10.49%) Korn
5 11 (6.79%) C++
6 10 (6.17%) Perl
7 9 (5.56%) Java
8 8 (4.94%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.94%) SQL
9 4 (2.47%) PHP
10 3 (1.85%) Groovy
11 2 (1.23%) C
11 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.62%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (20.99%) Degree
2 33 (20.37%) Security Cleared
3 25 (15.43%) AWS Certification
4 21 (12.96%) DV Cleared
5 19 (11.73%) ITIL Certification
6 16 (9.88%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (4.94%) CCNA
8 8 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (4.32%) MCSE
9 7 (4.32%) RHCE
9 7 (4.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (3.70%) RHCSA
11 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
14 2 (1.23%) Dell Certification
14 2 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (1.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (19.14%) SLA
2 10 (6.17%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (27.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (19.14%) Active Directory
3 27 (16.67%) Docker
4 18 (11.11%) vSphere
5 12 (7.41%) NFS
6 11 (6.79%) Hyper-V
7 9 (5.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (4.32%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.23%) KVM
11 2 (1.23%) pfSense
11 2 (1.23%) Postfix
11 2 (1.23%) Samba
12 1 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.62%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (41.36%) Ansible
2 48 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 30 (18.52%) Terraform
4 15 (9.26%) Puppet
5 11 (6.79%) Grafana
5 11 (6.79%) WSUS
6 9 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (4.94%) SCOM
8 6 (3.70%) Nagios
8 6 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.70%) SCCM
9 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (3.09%) Podman
9 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.85%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (1.85%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 100 (61.73%) Red Hat
2 65 (40.12%) VMware
3 31 (19.14%) Microsoft
4 24 (14.81%) Cisco
5 22 (13.58%) IBM
5 22 (13.58%) Oracle
6 15 (9.26%) Commvault
6 15 (9.26%) Splunk
7 14 (8.64%) Dell
8 11 (6.79%) ServiceNow
9 8 (4.94%) NetApp
9 8 (4.94%) Pure Storage
10 7 (4.32%) HP
11 4 (2.47%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.85%) McAfee
12 3 (1.85%) Symantec
13 2 (1.23%) EMC
13 2 (1.23%) Fujitsu
13 2 (1.23%) Google
13 2 (1.23%) Juniper