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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 502 450
Rank change year-on-year +15 -52 +151
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 178 309 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.73% 3.18% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 125 220 251
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,401 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +15.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,347 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.90% - +2.44%

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 6,516 9,730 10,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 12.48% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,233 6,118 8,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,325 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -14.83% -4.26% +4.44%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 September 2025.

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 14 September 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 -3 166 £65,000 +4.00% 63
UK excluding London -28 87 £58,750 +11.90% 48
London +68 82 £80,000 -5.88% 25
Work from Home +14 61 £70,000 +19.66% 26
South East 0 35 £64,750 +43.89% 18
North of England +13 15 £65,000 -0.71% 9
East of England -7 15 £43,500 -19.44% 4
Midlands +41 10 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Yorkshire +10 8 £65,000 -0.71% 1
Scotland +58 6 £42,500 -51.43% 1
East Midlands +27 6 £57,500 +43.75% 2
South West +6 6 £60,000 -7.69% 14
North West -4 5 £74,870 +14.37% 3
West Midlands +40 4 £65,000 -0.71%
North East +18 2 £55,000 -15.98% 5
Wales +20 1 £47,500 -5.00%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (13.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (10.11%) Apache
3 12 (6.74%) WebSphere
4 8 (4.49%) Tomcat
4 8 (4.49%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (2.25%) JBoss
6 3 (1.69%) Skype for Business
7 2 (1.12%) Confluence
7 2 (1.12%) WildFly
8 1 (0.56%) Drupal
8 1 (0.56%) nginx
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 63 (35.39%) AWS
2 43 (24.16%) Azure
3 23 (12.92%) GitHub
4 22 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (7.30%) OpenShift
6 11 (6.18%) Cohesity
7 8 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.37%) Serverless
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.81%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.25%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.25%) GCP
10 4 (2.25%) PaaS
10 4 (2.25%) Route 53
10 4 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.61%) Firewall
2 25 (14.04%) SAN
3 19 (10.67%) LAN
3 19 (10.67%) TCP/IP
4 17 (9.55%) DNS
5 16 (8.99%) WAN
6 13 (7.30%) DHCP
7 12 (6.74%) Fibre Channel
7 12 (6.74%) Remote Desktop
8 11 (6.18%) iSCSI
9 9 (5.06%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (4.49%) SSL
11 5 (2.81%) VSAN
12 4 (2.25%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (2.25%) VoIP
13 3 (1.69%) HTTP
13 3 (1.69%) Network Security
13 3 (1.69%) Skype
13 3 (1.69%) VPN
14 2 (1.12%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.17%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.87%) MySQL
4 10 (5.62%) DB2
5 4 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.12%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.56%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (24.16%) Git
2 13 (7.30%) GitLab
3 11 (6.18%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.37%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.81%) JIRA
5 5 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.25%) Ant
6 4 (2.25%) Maven
7 3 (1.69%) Subversion
8 1 (0.56%) MSI
8 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 58 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 56 (31.46%) Finance
3 29 (16.29%) Banking
4 15 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.37%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.37%) Law
7 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.25%) Electronics
8 4 (2.25%) Marketing
8 4 (2.25%) Military
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Advertising
10 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.12%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Front Office
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (24.72%) Linux Engineer
2 36 (20.22%) Administrator
3 23 (12.92%) Systems Administrator
4 22 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (12.36%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (10.67%) Senior
6 18 (10.11%) Linux Support
7 17 (9.55%) Cisco Engineer
8 16 (8.99%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 14 (7.87%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.87%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 14 (7.87%) VMware Engineer
10 12 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.74%) Support Engineer
11 11 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (6.18%) Integration Engineer
11 11 (6.18%) Lead
12 10 (5.62%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (5.62%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.49%) LAPP Stack
1 8 (4.49%) LDAP
1 8 (4.49%) WebSphere MQ
2 7 (3.93%) Middleware
3 6 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.81%) Kafka
5 4 (2.25%) .NET
5 4 (2.25%) REST
6 3 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (1.69%) LAMP
6 3 (1.69%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.12%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.56%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) Laravel
8 1 (0.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.29%) Management Information System
2 24 (13.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (10.67%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (8.43%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.18%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.06%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.93%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.81%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Clustering
10 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.69%) FPGA
10 3 (1.69%) NVMe
10 3 (1.69%) PKI
10 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.69%) RSA SecurID
10 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.69%) Verilog
10 3 (1.69%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 178 (100.00%) Linux
2 74 (41.57%) Windows
3 35 (19.66%) CentOS
4 31 (17.42%) Windows Server
5 26 (14.61%) Unix
6 23 (12.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (8.99%) Solaris
8 11 (6.18%) Debian
9 10 (5.62%) Ubuntu
9 10 (5.62%) Windows 10
10 9 (5.06%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.81%) HPUX
12 4 (2.25%) AIX
12 4 (2.25%) CoreOS
12 4 (2.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (1.69%) VMS
14 2 (1.12%) SUSE
14 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.56%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.64%) DevOps
2 49 (27.53%) ITIL
3 41 (23.03%) Containerisation
4 31 (17.42%) Root Cause Analysis
5 30 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (16.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (11.24%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (10.11%) Incident Response
10 17 (9.55%) Incident Management
10 17 (9.55%) Time Management
11 15 (8.43%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (7.30%) Change Management
14 12 (6.74%) High Availability
14 12 (6.74%) Mentoring
14 12 (6.74%) Release Management
15 11 (6.18%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.52%) Python
2 58 (32.58%) Bash
3 24 (13.48%) PowerShell
4 19 (10.67%) Korn
5 14 (7.87%) SQL
6 11 (6.18%) PHP
7 9 (5.06%) Java
8 5 (2.81%) Perl
9 4 (2.25%) Groovy
9 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.69%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (1.69%) Tcl
11 2 (1.12%) C
12 1 (0.56%) C#
12 1 (0.56%) C++
12 1 (0.56%) COBOL
12 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.22%) Degree
3 25 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.24%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.99%) AWS Certification
6 13 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (7.30%) RHCSA
7 11 (6.18%) CCNA
7 11 (6.18%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (5.62%) MCSE
9 9 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
11 7 (3.93%) RHCE
12 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.69%) Dell Certification
12 3 (1.69%) MCSA
13 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.24%) SLA
2 10 (5.62%) QA
3 4 (2.25%) Def Stans
3 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) GDPR
5 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (26.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (16.85%) Active Directory
3 28 (15.73%) Docker
4 26 (14.61%) vSphere
5 17 (9.55%) NFS
6 13 (7.30%) Hyper-V
7 11 (6.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 10 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (5.62%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.12%) pfSense
9 2 (1.12%) Postfix
9 2 (1.12%) Samba
10 1 (0.56%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.56%) KVM
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 86 (48.31%) Ansible
2 59 (33.15%) Kubernetes
3 47 (26.40%) Terraform
4 15 (8.43%) Puppet
4 15 (8.43%) WSUS
5 12 (6.74%) Grafana
5 12 (6.74%) Nagios
5 12 (6.74%) SCOM
6 8 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.49%) SCCM
7 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 6 (3.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.81%) Podman
10 4 (2.25%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.12%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.12%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 96 (53.93%) Red Hat
2 76 (42.70%) VMware
3 45 (25.28%) Microsoft
4 38 (21.35%) Cisco
5 23 (12.92%) Commvault
6 21 (11.80%) Oracle
7 17 (9.55%) Splunk
8 16 (8.99%) Dell
8 16 (8.99%) IBM
9 14 (7.87%) Pure Storage
10 12 (6.74%) NetApp
11 8 (4.49%) SolarWinds
12 7 (3.93%) HP
13 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow
14 3 (1.69%) Fujitsu
14 3 (1.69%) Juniper
15 2 (1.12%) Citrix
15 2 (1.12%) EMC
15 2 (1.12%) McAfee
15 2 (1.12%) Veeam