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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 512 553
Rank change year-on-year -29 +41 -15
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 172 152 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.20% 2.25% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 139 120 260
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £71,063
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £95,347
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% +5.00%

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 5,373 6,756 13,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.92% 15.56% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,939 4,320 10,742
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,625 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% -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 14 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 11 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 14 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
England -26 155 £62,500 -10.71% 80
UK excluding London -60 90 £67,500 +3.85% 58
London -2 75 £57,500 -25.81% 28
South East +9 47 £67,500 +17.39% 17
Work from Home -24 26 £70,000 - 17
North West +12 18 £55,000 -26.54% 6
North of England -28 18 £55,000 -21.43% 14
South West -38 13 £75,000 +4.18% 19
Scotland +3 10 £46,000 +5.14%
East of England -28 1 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 19 (11.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.40%) Apache
3 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.49%) Confluence
5 5 (2.91%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.33%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.74%) CMS
7 3 (1.74%) WordPress
8 2 (1.16%) IIS
8 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (26.74%) AWS
2 35 (20.35%) Azure
3 12 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (5.81%) OpenShift
6 9 (5.23%) SaaS
7 8 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.65%) IaaS
8 7 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.07%) GCP
8 7 (4.07%) Serverless
9 6 (3.49%) Datadog
10 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.33%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.74%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (1.74%) GitHub
12 3 (1.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (29.65%) DNS
2 30 (17.44%) Firewall
2 30 (17.44%) SAN
3 24 (13.95%) TCP/IP
4 20 (11.63%) LAN
5 18 (10.47%) HTTP
6 14 (8.14%) Wireshark
7 12 (6.98%) Multicast
8 10 (5.81%) NAS
8 10 (5.81%) WAN
9 9 (5.23%) iSCSI
10 8 (4.65%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (3.49%) ATM
11 6 (3.49%) tcpdump
12 5 (2.91%) AMQP
12 5 (2.91%) DHCP
13 3 (1.74%) VSAN
14 2 (1.16%) Network Security
14 2 (1.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.81%) MySQL
4 7 (4.07%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.91%) Big Data
5 5 (2.91%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (2.91%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.74%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.58%) Power BI
8 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.58%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 17 (9.88%) Git
2 13 (7.56%) GitLab
3 10 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.23%) JIRA
5 6 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.74%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.74%) TestRail
8 1 (0.58%) git-flow
8 1 (0.58%) Maven
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 43 (25.00%) Finance
3 22 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.30%) Banking
5 14 (8.14%) Aerospace
6 11 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Front Office
8 6 (3.49%) Automotive
8 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.49%) Spanish Language
9 4 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (1.74%) Military
11 2 (1.16%) Advertising
11 2 (1.16%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (18.60%) Administrator
2 31 (18.02%) Linux Engineer
3 21 (12.21%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (11.63%) Senior
5 19 (11.05%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (10.47%) Linux Support
7 17 (9.88%) Support Engineer
8 16 (9.30%) Applications Architect
8 16 (9.30%) Architect
9 14 (8.14%) Linux Support Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.81%) Lead
11 10 (5.81%) Security Architect
11 10 (5.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Developer
12 8 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support
13 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.30%) Regular Expression
2 14 (8.14%) LDAP
3 12 (6.98%) XMPP
4 10 (5.81%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.49%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (3.49%) Middleware
5 6 (3.49%) REST
6 5 (2.91%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.91%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.91%) gRPC
6 5 (2.91%) Material-UI
6 5 (2.91%) Node.js
6 5 (2.91%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.91%) React
6 5 (2.91%) Spring
6 5 (2.91%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.91%) Swagger
7 4 (2.33%) JSON Schema
7 4 (2.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.53%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.72%) PKI
3 14 (8.14%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.65%) Clustering
5 6 (3.49%) Derivative
5 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.91%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.33%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.33%) Replication
7 4 (2.33%) Web3
8 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.58%) Equities
10 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.58%) FPGA
10 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 172 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (37.79%) Windows
3 54 (31.40%) Windows Server
4 43 (25.00%) CentOS
5 24 (13.95%) Ubuntu
6 22 (12.79%) Unix
7 13 (7.56%) Debian
8 9 (5.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (4.65%) AIX
10 6 (3.49%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.91%) Solaris
11 5 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.74%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.74%) VMS
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.16%) Rocky
13 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.91%) DevOps
2 44 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 30 (17.44%) SIEM
5 29 (16.86%) ITIL
6 27 (15.70%) High Availability
7 26 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (13.95%) Configuration Management
9 22 (12.79%) Agile
10 21 (12.21%) Containerisation
10 21 (12.21%) Validation
11 20 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (11.05%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (8.14%) Observability
16 13 (7.56%) Antivirus Management
16 13 (7.56%) Application Security
16 13 (7.56%) Roadmaps
17 12 (6.98%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.30%) Python
2 52 (30.23%) Bash
3 29 (16.86%) PowerShell
4 27 (15.70%) SQL
5 14 (8.14%) PHP
6 13 (7.56%) Perl
7 12 (6.98%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.40%) Korn
9 9 (5.23%) Java
10 7 (4.07%) C++
11 5 (2.91%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.33%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.16%) C
14 1 (0.58%) Groovy
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.93%) DV Cleared
3 18 (10.47%) Degree
4 15 (8.72%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.56%) RHCSA
6 11 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.33%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.33%) RHCE
10 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.16%) CCNA
11 2 (1.16%) MCSE
12 1 (0.58%) CCSP
12 1 (0.58%) CISSP
12 1 (0.58%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.58%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.23%) SLA
2 2 (1.16%) NIST
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.58%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (25.58%) Docker
3 43 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 31 (18.02%) vSphere
5 10 (5.81%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (4.07%) KVM
8 5 (2.91%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (2.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.16%) Samba
11 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (31.40%) Ansible
2 53 (30.81%) Kubernetes
3 38 (22.09%) Terraform
4 24 (13.95%) Puppet
5 23 (13.37%) Nagios
6 10 (5.81%) Grafana
7 8 (4.65%) WSUS
8 7 (4.07%) Podman
9 6 (3.49%) Data Guard
9 6 (3.49%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.91%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.91%) ZABBIX
11 4 (2.33%) Argo
11 4 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.74%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.74%) SCVMM
13 1 (0.58%) Packer
13 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 115 (66.86%) Red Hat
2 79 (45.93%) VMware
3 36 (20.93%) Microsoft
4 18 (10.47%) McAfee
5 14 (8.14%) Oracle
6 11 (6.40%) SolarWinds
6 11 (6.40%) Splunk
7 10 (5.81%) Dell
8 8 (4.65%) Citrix
8 8 (4.65%) NetApp
9 6 (3.49%) Google
10 5 (2.91%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.91%) Symantec
11 4 (2.33%) IBM
11 4 (2.33%) Mirantis
12 3 (1.74%) Pure Storage
13 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.16%) CyberArk
13 2 (1.16%) D-Link
13 2 (1.16%) Veeam