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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 469 551
Rank change year-on-year -91 +82 -62
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 154 166 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.41% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.83% 2.76% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 116 123 251
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £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 £74,063 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% +0.24%

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 5,445 6,018 13,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.53% 14.71% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,988 4,367 10,936
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,759
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 £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.11% +4.71% -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 10 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 10 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 -74 139 £60,000 -14.29% 65
London -4 74 £61,250 -25.76% 14
UK excluding London -108 72 £60,000 -7.69% 55
South East -11 41 £67,500 +14.89% 14
Work from Home -19 28 £70,000 -1.40% 30
North West -26 13 £57,000 -23.87% 10
North of England -75 13 £57,000 -18.57% 19
South West -48 9 £57,500 -20.13% 13
Scotland -14 7 £46,000 +5.14% 2
East of England -51 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 17 (11.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.44%) Apache
3 9 (5.84%) Tomcat
4 8 (5.19%) SharePoint
5 7 (4.55%) Confluence
6 6 (3.90%) Apache Spark
7 5 (3.25%) IIS
8 4 (2.60%) OpenStack
8 4 (2.60%) WebSphere
8 4 (2.60%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (1.95%) CMS
9 3 (1.95%) WordPress
10 2 (1.30%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.92%) AWS
2 30 (19.48%) Azure
3 16 (10.39%) OpenShift
4 15 (9.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (9.09%) SaaS
6 10 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.84%) Serverless
8 8 (5.19%) GCP
8 8 (5.19%) IaaS
9 6 (3.90%) Datadog
9 6 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.25%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.95%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.95%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.95%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (29.22%) DNS
2 22 (14.29%) Firewall
2 22 (14.29%) SAN
2 22 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 18 (11.69%) Multicast
4 16 (10.39%) LAN
5 15 (9.74%) HTTP
6 11 (7.14%) WAN
6 11 (7.14%) Wireshark
7 7 (4.55%) ATM
7 7 (4.55%) DHCP
7 7 (4.55%) NAS
7 7 (4.55%) tcpdump
8 6 (3.90%) AMQP
8 6 (3.90%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.90%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (3.25%) SSL
9 5 (3.25%) VSAN
10 4 (2.60%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.84%) MySQL
4 7 (4.55%) Big Data
4 7 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.90%) Cloudera CDH
5 6 (3.90%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.60%) DB2
7 4 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.95%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) Power BI
9 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (10.39%) Git
2 12 (7.79%) GitLab
2 12 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.49%) JIRA
4 9 (5.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.95%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.95%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.95%) TestRail
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.38%) Finance
3 14 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.44%) Aerospace
4 13 (8.44%) Banking
4 13 (8.44%) Front Office
5 10 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Automotive
7 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.90%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.60%) Advertising
8 4 (2.60%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (20.78%) Linux Engineer
2 27 (17.53%) Administrator
3 25 (16.23%) Linux Support
4 21 (13.64%) Support Engineer
5 20 (12.99%) Linux Administrator
6 18 (11.69%) Linux Support Engineer
7 17 (11.04%) Senior
8 13 (8.44%) Developer
8 13 (8.44%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (7.79%) C++ Developer
10 10 (6.49%) Applications Architect
10 10 (6.49%) Architect
10 10 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.49%) Lead
11 9 (5.84%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 9 (5.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Infrastructure Support
12 8 (5.19%) Linux Specialist
12 8 (5.19%) Support Specialist
12 8 (5.19%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.74%) LDAP
2 11 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (6.49%) Regular Expression
4 7 (4.55%) Middleware
4 7 (4.55%) REST
5 6 (3.90%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.90%) gRPC
5 6 (3.90%) Kafka
5 6 (3.90%) Material-UI
5 6 (3.90%) Node.js
5 6 (3.90%) OpenAPI
5 6 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.90%) React
5 6 (3.90%) Spring
5 6 (3.90%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.90%) Swagger
5 6 (3.90%) XMPP
6 5 (3.25%) WebSockets
7 4 (2.60%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (2.60%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.39%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.74%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.14%) Derivative
3 11 (7.14%) PKI
4 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.84%) Clustering
6 6 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.60%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.60%) Replication
8 4 (2.60%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.60%) Web3
9 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.30%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 154 (100.00%) Linux
2 54 (35.06%) Windows
3 50 (32.47%) CentOS
4 43 (27.92%) Windows Server
5 21 (13.64%) Ubuntu
6 18 (11.69%) Unix
7 11 (7.14%) Debian
8 10 (6.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (5.84%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (3.90%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (2.60%) AIX
12 4 (2.60%) Solaris
13 3 (1.95%) CoreOS
13 3 (1.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (25.32%) DevOps
3 30 (19.48%) CI/CD
4 28 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (17.53%) Agile
5 27 (17.53%) Configuration Management
5 27 (17.53%) ITIL
6 23 (14.94%) Containerisation
7 22 (14.29%) High Availability
8 19 (12.34%) SIEM
9 17 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (9.74%) Validation
11 14 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (9.09%) Migration
12 13 (8.44%) Low Latency
13 12 (7.79%) Change Management
13 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (7.14%) Concurrent Programming
14 11 (7.14%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (42.21%) Python
2 46 (29.87%) Bash
3 30 (19.48%) PowerShell
4 20 (12.99%) SQL
5 19 (12.34%) Perl
6 14 (9.09%) PHP
7 13 (8.44%) Shell Script
8 12 (7.79%) C++
9 10 (6.49%) Java
10 8 (5.19%) Korn
11 6 (3.90%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.95%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.30%) C
14 1 (0.65%) Groovy
14 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.78%) DV Cleared
3 17 (11.04%) Degree
4 13 (8.44%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.49%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.84%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.19%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.60%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.60%) RHCE
9 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.65%) CCSP
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CISM
10 1 (0.65%) CISSP
10 1 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.14%) SLA
2 2 (1.30%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (29.22%) Docker
2 43 (27.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (24.03%) Active Directory
4 24 (15.58%) vSphere
5 8 (5.19%) KVM
6 6 (3.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (3.25%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.95%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.95%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.30%) Samba
10 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (38.31%) Ansible
2 56 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 28 (18.18%) Terraform
4 22 (14.29%) Puppet
5 16 (10.39%) Nagios
6 12 (7.79%) Grafana
7 7 (4.55%) WSUS
8 5 (3.25%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.25%) Podman
8 5 (3.25%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.25%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.60%) Argo
9 4 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.60%) SCVMM
9 4 (2.60%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.95%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 93 (60.39%) Red Hat
2 66 (42.86%) VMware
3 17 (11.04%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.04%) Oracle
4 16 (10.39%) McAfee
5 11 (7.14%) Splunk
6 8 (5.19%) Dell
7 7 (4.55%) Google
7 7 (4.55%) IBM
8 6 (3.90%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.25%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.25%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.25%) Symantec
10 4 (2.60%) Citrix
10 4 (2.60%) Mirantis
10 4 (2.60%) NetApp
10 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.95%) Pure Storage
12 2 (1.30%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.30%) D-Link