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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 477 554
Rank change year-on-year -74 +77 -48
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 145 161 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.68% 2.68% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 111 118 248
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -

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 5,407 6,007 13,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.81% 14.70% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,986 4,331 10,758
10th Percentile £27,206 £27,500 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,250 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -63 130 £60,000 -14.29% 65
London -4 75 £67,500 -18.18% 14
UK excluding London -94 62 £55,000 -15.38% 55
South East -20 37 £61,250 +2.08% 14
Work from Home -33 25 £70,000 - 30
North West -21 8 £56,000 -25.20% 10
South West -39 8 £57,500 -20.13% 13
North of England -64 8 £56,000 -22.69% 19
Scotland -21 7 £46,000 +5.14% 2
East of England -36 1 £70,000 +14.29% 2
Northern Ireland - 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 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.28%) Apache
3 10 (6.90%) Tomcat
4 8 (5.52%) SharePoint
5 7 (4.83%) Confluence
6 5 (3.45%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.45%) IIS
6 5 (3.45%) WebSphere
6 5 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (2.07%) CMS
7 3 (2.07%) OpenStack
7 3 (2.07%) WordPress
8 2 (1.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.90%) AWS
2 27 (18.62%) Azure
3 15 (10.34%) OpenShift
4 14 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (9.66%) SaaS
5 10 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.21%) Serverless
7 7 (4.83%) IaaS
8 6 (4.14%) GCP
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (3.45%) Datadog
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.07%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.07%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.07%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 45 (31.03%) DNS
2 22 (15.17%) TCP/IP
3 20 (13.79%) Firewall
4 19 (13.10%) Multicast
4 19 (13.10%) SAN
5 16 (11.03%) LAN
6 15 (10.34%) HTTP
7 11 (7.59%) WAN
7 11 (7.59%) Wireshark
8 7 (4.83%) ATM
8 7 (4.83%) DHCP
8 7 (4.83%) NAS
8 7 (4.83%) tcpdump
9 6 (4.14%) SSL
10 5 (3.45%) AMQP
10 5 (3.45%) VSAN
11 4 (2.76%) NetScaler
12 3 (2.07%) iSCSI
12 3 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.07%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.83%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.14%) Big Data
4 6 (4.14%) MySQL
5 5 (3.45%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.45%) DB2
5 5 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.07%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.69%) Power BI
8 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.69%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (11.03%) Git
2 12 (8.28%) GitLab
3 11 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.21%) JIRA
5 8 (5.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.14%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.07%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.07%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.07%) TestRail
8 1 (0.69%) git-flow
8 1 (0.69%) Maven
8 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.90%) Finance
3 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Banking
4 13 (8.97%) Front Office
5 12 (8.28%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.83%) Automotive
6 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.76%) Advertising
9 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.07%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (19.31%) Administrator
1 28 (19.31%) Linux Engineer
2 26 (17.93%) Linux Support
3 22 (15.17%) Support Engineer
4 21 (14.48%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (13.10%) Linux Support Engineer
6 14 (9.66%) Senior
7 13 (8.97%) C++ Developer
7 13 (8.97%) Developer
7 13 (8.97%) Systems Administrator
8 10 (6.90%) Applications Architect
8 10 (6.90%) Architect
9 9 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure Support
10 8 (5.52%) Lead
10 8 (5.52%) Linux Specialist
10 8 (5.52%) Support Specialist
10 8 (5.52%) Unix Support
11 7 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) LDAP
2 12 (8.28%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (6.90%) Regular Expression
4 7 (4.83%) Middleware
5 6 (4.14%) Kafka
5 6 (4.14%) REST
5 6 (4.14%) XMPP
6 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.45%) gRPC
6 5 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
6 5 (3.45%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.45%) Node.js
6 5 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.45%) React
6 5 (3.45%) Spring
6 5 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.45%) Swagger
6 5 (3.45%) WebSockets
6 5 (3.45%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.28%) Derivative
3 11 (7.59%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.59%) PKI
4 9 (6.21%) Clustering
5 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.76%) Replication
7 4 (2.76%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.76%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.07%) Blockchain
8 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.07%) Web3
9 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.38%) FPGA
9 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 145 (100.00%) Linux
2 53 (36.55%) Windows
3 48 (33.10%) CentOS
4 42 (28.97%) Windows Server
5 20 (13.79%) Ubuntu
6 18 (12.41%) Unix
7 10 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.21%) Debian
8 9 (6.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (4.14%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (2.07%) AIX
11 3 (2.07%) CoreOS
11 3 (2.07%) Solaris
12 2 (1.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (24.83%) DevOps
3 27 (18.62%) CI/CD
4 25 (17.24%) Agile
4 25 (17.24%) Configuration Management
4 25 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (16.55%) ITIL
6 20 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 19 (13.10%) SIEM
8 17 (11.72%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (11.72%) High Availability
9 15 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (10.34%) Validation
10 14 (9.66%) Migration
11 13 (8.97%) Change Management
11 13 (8.97%) Low Latency
12 12 (8.28%) Concurrent Programming
12 12 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.28%) SOA
12 12 (8.28%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 64 (44.14%) Python
2 42 (28.97%) Bash
3 27 (18.62%) PowerShell
4 20 (13.79%) SQL
5 19 (13.10%) Perl
6 14 (9.66%) PHP
7 13 (8.97%) C++
7 13 (8.97%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.52%) Java
9 5 (3.45%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.45%) Korn
10 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.38%) C
12 1 (0.69%) Groovy
12 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.38%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.66%) Degree
4 12 (8.28%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.59%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.52%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.76%) RHCE
9 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.07%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.69%) CCSP
10 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.69%) CISM
10 1 (0.69%) CISSP
10 1 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.28%) SLA
2 2 (1.38%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (29.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (26.21%) Docker
3 34 (23.45%) Active Directory
4 24 (16.55%) vSphere
5 8 (5.52%) KVM
6 5 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (2.07%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.38%) Samba
9 2 (1.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (37.93%) Ansible
2 47 (32.41%) Kubernetes
3 25 (17.24%) Terraform
4 20 (13.79%) Puppet
5 16 (11.03%) Nagios
6 11 (7.59%) Grafana
7 7 (4.83%) WSUS
8 5 (3.45%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.45%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.45%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.76%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.76%) Podman
9 4 (2.76%) SCVMM
10 3 (2.07%) Argo
10 3 (2.07%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (2.07%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 87 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 65 (44.83%) VMware
3 17 (11.72%) Oracle
4 16 (11.03%) McAfee
5 14 (9.66%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.59%) Splunk
7 8 (5.52%) IBM
8 5 (3.45%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.45%) Dell
8 5 (3.45%) Google
8 5 (3.45%) SaltStack
8 5 (3.45%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.45%) Symantec
9 4 (2.76%) Citrix
9 4 (2.76%) NetApp
9 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.07%) Mirantis
10 3 (2.07%) Pure Storage
11 2 (1.38%) D-Link
11 2 (1.38%) HP