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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 503 519
Rank change year-on-year -69 +16 -13
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 201 188 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.23% 2.71% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 159 140 256
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £100,487
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.76% +17.14% +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 6,229 6,949 11,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 14.09% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,695 4,648 8,532
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -

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 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 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 26 July 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 -72 187 £67,500 -3.57% 51
UK excluding London -53 131 £67,500 +9.76% 35
London -39 68 £67,500 -15.63% 26
South East -18 55 £67,500 +2.66% 10
North of England -23 36 £97,500 +50.00% 9
North West +18 27 £47,500 -36.56% 7
Work from Home -55 24 £70,000 - 14
South West -52 17 £75,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland +23 11 £54,726 +28.77% 3
Midlands -39 6 £75,000 +30.43% 5
East of England -20 5 £55,000 +2.33% 2
East Midlands -33 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
North East -46 5 £97,500 +77.27% 1
Yorkshire -45 4 £97,500 +50.00% 1
West Midlands -23 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.48%) Apache
2 9 (4.48%) Confluence
3 7 (3.48%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.49%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.00%) JBoss
7 1 (0.50%) CMS
7 1 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (6.47%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.35%) AWS
2 45 (22.39%) Azure
3 18 (8.96%) GitHub
4 15 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.47%) OpenShift
6 9 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.98%) IaaS
8 7 (3.48%) Azure Stack
8 7 (3.48%) Datadog
9 6 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.99%) Serverless
10 5 (2.49%) GCP
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.99%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.99%) SaaS
11 4 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (26.37%) DNS
2 38 (18.91%) Firewall
3 31 (15.42%) SAN
4 24 (11.94%) TCP/IP
5 20 (9.95%) LAN
6 14 (6.97%) Wireshark
7 13 (6.47%) HTTP
8 11 (5.47%) Remote Desktop
8 11 (5.47%) WAN
9 10 (4.98%) iSCSI
10 9 (4.48%) NAS
11 8 (3.98%) NetScaler
12 6 (2.99%) ATM
12 6 (2.99%) DHCP
12 6 (2.99%) Multicast
12 6 (2.99%) tcpdump
13 5 (2.49%) VSAN
14 4 (1.99%) AMQP
14 4 (1.99%) Kerberos
15 3 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.47%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.48%) MySQL
3 9 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.99%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.99%) Big Data
6 4 (1.99%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 39 (19.40%) Git
2 27 (13.43%) GitLab
3 24 (11.94%) Jenkins
4 19 (9.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (6.97%) JIRA
6 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.00%) Maven
8 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.50%) git-flow
8 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
8 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.41%) Finance
3 35 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.44%) Banking
5 17 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.96%) Aerospace
7 13 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.99%) Automotive
9 6 (2.99%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.99%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.49%) Front Office
12 3 (1.49%) Military
13 2 (1.00%) Advertising
13 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.50%) Law
14 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (16.92%) Senior
2 30 (14.93%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (13.93%) Administrator
4 24 (11.94%) Systems Administrator
5 20 (9.95%) Applications Architect
5 20 (9.95%) Architect
5 20 (9.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.46%) Lead
6 15 (7.46%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.46%) Principal Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Security Architect
8 13 (6.47%) DBA
8 13 (6.47%) Oracle DBA
8 13 (6.47%) Senior DBA
8 13 (6.47%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 12 (5.97%) Linux Administrator
10 11 (5.47%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (4.98%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.44%) LDAP
1 23 (11.44%) Regular Expression
2 19 (9.45%) XMPP
3 9 (4.48%) WebSockets
4 8 (3.98%) JSON
5 7 (3.48%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.48%) JSON Schema
5 7 (3.48%) XML
6 5 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.49%) React
7 4 (1.99%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.99%) gRPC
7 4 (1.99%) Material-UI
7 4 (1.99%) Node.js
7 4 (1.99%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.99%) REST
7 4 (1.99%) Spring
7 4 (1.99%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.99%) Swagger
7 4 (1.99%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.94%) Data Centre
3 17 (8.46%) PKI
4 14 (6.97%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.48%) Social Media
6 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.49%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.99%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.99%) Replication
8 4 (1.99%) Web3
9 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 201 (100.00%) Linux
2 77 (38.31%) Windows
3 67 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 53 (26.37%) CentOS
5 28 (13.93%) Unix
6 25 (12.44%) Ubuntu
7 20 (9.95%) AIX
8 15 (7.46%) Debian
9 14 (6.97%) Oracle Linux
10 12 (5.97%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (3.98%) Rocky
12 5 (2.49%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.49%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.49%) Solaris
13 3 (1.49%) VMS
14 2 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.32%) DevOps
2 56 (27.86%) CI/CD
3 41 (20.40%) ITIL
4 40 (19.90%) High Availability
4 40 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (19.90%) SIEM
5 39 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (17.91%) Platform Engineering
7 32 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (15.42%) Configuration Management
8 31 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 29 (14.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 29 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 25 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (12.44%) Validation
12 23 (11.44%) Agile
13 20 (9.95%) Incident Response
13 20 (9.95%) Observability
14 19 (9.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (29.85%) Python
2 58 (28.86%) Bash
3 34 (16.92%) SQL
4 33 (16.42%) PowerShell
5 24 (11.94%) Shell Script
6 19 (9.45%) Korn
7 16 (7.96%) Java
8 13 (6.47%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.98%) PHP
10 7 (3.48%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.99%) Perl
12 2 (1.00%) C
13 1 (0.50%) C#
13 1 (0.50%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 84 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 58 (28.86%) DV Cleared
3 31 (15.42%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.95%) Degree
5 12 (5.97%) RHCSA
6 10 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.99%) CCSP
9 4 (1.99%) CISM
9 4 (1.99%) CISSP
9 4 (1.99%) Postgraduate
9 4 (1.99%) RHCE
10 3 (1.49%) CCNA
10 3 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.49%) MCSE
11 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.00%) Dell Certification
11 2 (1.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.49%) NIST
1 5 (2.49%) SLA
2 4 (1.99%) GDPR
2 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (29.35%) Docker
2 55 (27.36%) Active Directory
3 40 (19.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (17.91%) vSphere
5 14 (6.97%) Oracle RAC
6 13 (6.47%) Hyper-V
7 10 (4.98%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (3.48%) KVM
10 5 (2.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.00%) Samba
11 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (1.00%) Xen
12 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (35.32%) Kubernetes
2 65 (32.34%) Ansible
3 57 (28.36%) Terraform
4 32 (15.92%) Nagios
5 29 (14.43%) Puppet
6 14 (6.97%) Data Guard
7 13 (6.47%) Oracle RMAN
8 10 (4.98%) ZABBIX
9 8 (3.98%) Grafana
9 8 (3.98%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (3.48%) Podman
10 7 (3.48%) WSUS
11 5 (2.49%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.49%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.49%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.49%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.49%) SCVMM
12 4 (1.99%) Argo
13 2 (1.00%) FlexNet
13 2 (1.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 121 (60.20%) Red Hat
2 74 (36.82%) VMware
3 44 (21.89%) Microsoft
4 25 (12.44%) McAfee
5 22 (10.95%) Oracle
6 14 (6.97%) Splunk
7 13 (6.47%) IBM
8 12 (5.97%) NetApp
9 10 (4.98%) Dell
9 10 (4.98%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.98%) Citrix
11 7 (3.48%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.49%) Google
12 5 (2.49%) Veeam
13 4 (1.99%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.99%) Ivanti
13 4 (1.99%) Qualys
13 4 (1.99%) Rapid7
13 4 (1.99%) SaltStack
13 4 (1.99%) Veracode