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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 495 519
Rank change year-on-year -70 +24 -7
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 204 184 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.23% 2.64% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 159 136 253
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £53,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -9.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £101,695
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £61,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.66% +16.19% +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 6,324 6,969 10,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.13% 14.07% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,760 4,661 7,980
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,500 £33,000
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.97% -13.33% -

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 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 August 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 -49 191 £67,500 -3.57% 64
UK excluding London -43 133 £67,500 +10.66% 42
London -45 69 £75,000 -6.25% 29
South East -19 56 £67,500 +9.76% 14
North of England -25 37 £97,500 +50.00% 8
North West +16 27 £47,500 -36.56% 7
Work from Home -49 24 £70,000 - 20
South West -56 18 £75,000 +20.00% 12
Scotland +16 11 £54,726 +28.77% 3
Midlands -35 6 £75,000 +30.43% 5
East of England -21 5 £55,000 +4.76% 1
East Midlands -29 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Yorkshire -36 5 £97,500 +50.00% 1
North East -49 5 £97,500 +77.27%
West Midlands -32 1 - - 4

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 15 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.90%) Confluence
3 8 (3.92%) Apache
3 8 (3.92%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.98%) JBoss
7 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (5.88%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 65 (31.86%) AWS
2 47 (23.04%) Azure
3 20 (9.80%) GitHub
4 15 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.39%) OpenShift
6 9 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.92%) IaaS
8 7 (3.43%) Azure Stack
8 7 (3.43%) Datadog
9 6 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.94%) Serverless
10 5 (2.45%) GCP
10 5 (2.45%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.96%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.96%) SaaS
11 4 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (25.00%) DNS
2 38 (18.63%) Firewall
3 29 (14.22%) SAN
4 24 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 21 (10.29%) LAN
6 14 (6.86%) Wireshark
7 13 (6.37%) HTTP
8 12 (5.88%) WAN
9 11 (5.39%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (4.90%) iSCSI
11 9 (4.41%) NAS
12 8 (3.92%) NetScaler
13 6 (2.94%) ATM
13 6 (2.94%) DHCP
13 6 (2.94%) Multicast
13 6 (2.94%) tcpdump
14 5 (2.45%) Kerberos
14 5 (2.45%) VSAN
15 4 (1.96%) AMQP
16 3 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.37%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.90%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.90%) MySQL
3 10 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.96%) Big Data
5 4 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 42 (20.59%) Git
2 29 (14.22%) GitLab
3 26 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 21 (10.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (7.35%) JIRA
6 3 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.98%) Maven
8 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.49%) git-flow
8 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (17.65%) Finance
3 22 (10.78%) Banking
4 19 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.84%) Aerospace
6 13 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.94%) Automotive
8 6 (2.94%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.96%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.47%) Front Office
11 3 (1.47%) Military
11 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.98%) Advertising
12 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Law
13 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (15.69%) Senior
2 29 (14.22%) Linux Engineer
3 27 (13.24%) Administrator
4 23 (11.27%) Systems Administrator
5 22 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.80%) Applications Architect
6 20 (9.80%) Architect
7 17 (8.33%) Lead
7 17 (8.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (6.86%) Security Architect
9 13 (6.37%) DBA
10 12 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
10 12 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (5.88%) Senior DBA
10 12 (5.88%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 11 (5.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 10 (4.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 9 (4.41%) Team Leader
14 8 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.76%) LDAP
2 23 (11.27%) Regular Expression
3 19 (9.31%) XMPP
4 9 (4.41%) WebSockets
5 8 (3.92%) JSON
6 7 (3.43%) ARM Templates
6 7 (3.43%) JSON Schema
6 7 (3.43%) XML
7 5 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.45%) React
8 4 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.96%) gRPC
8 4 (1.96%) Material-UI
8 4 (1.96%) Node.js
8 4 (1.96%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.96%) REST
8 4 (1.96%) Spring
8 4 (1.96%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.96%) Swagger
8 4 (1.96%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.27%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.35%) PKI
4 14 (6.86%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.92%) Social Media
6 7 (3.43%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (2.45%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.45%) Replication
8 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.96%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.96%) Web3
10 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.47%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.98%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 204 (100.00%) Linux
2 78 (38.24%) Windows
3 67 (32.84%) Windows Server
4 56 (27.45%) CentOS
5 27 (13.24%) Unix
6 25 (12.25%) Ubuntu
7 19 (9.31%) AIX
8 16 (7.84%) Debian
9 13 (6.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
11 9 (4.41%) Rocky
12 5 (2.45%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.45%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.47%) Solaris
13 3 (1.47%) VMS
14 2 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.76%) DevOps
2 59 (28.92%) CI/CD
3 41 (20.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (20.10%) ITIL
3 41 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (19.61%) High Availability
5 38 (18.63%) Platform Engineering
5 38 (18.63%) SIEM
6 35 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (15.20%) Configuration Management
8 31 (15.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 31 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (12.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 25 (12.25%) Validation
11 24 (11.76%) Agile
12 21 (10.29%) Microservices
12 21 (10.29%) Roadmaps
13 20 (9.80%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.39%) Python
2 58 (28.43%) Bash
3 36 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.18%) SQL
5 22 (10.78%) Shell Script
6 18 (8.82%) Java
6 18 (8.82%) Korn
7 12 (5.88%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.41%) PHP
9 7 (3.43%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.96%) Perl
11 2 (0.98%) C
12 1 (0.49%) C#
12 1 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 85 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 59 (28.92%) DV Cleared
3 33 (16.18%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.78%) Degree
5 12 (5.88%) RHCSA
6 11 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.45%) CCSP
9 5 (2.45%) CISM
9 5 (2.45%) CISSP
10 4 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.96%) Postgraduate
10 4 (1.96%) RHCE
11 3 (1.47%) CCNA
11 3 (1.47%) Dell Certification
11 3 (1.47%) MCSA
11 3 (1.47%) MCSE
12 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.94%) NIST
2 5 (2.45%) GDPR
2 5 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.45%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (30.39%) Docker
2 55 (26.96%) Active Directory
3 38 (18.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (16.67%) vSphere
5 14 (6.86%) Hyper-V
6 13 (6.37%) Oracle RAC
7 10 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (3.43%) KVM
10 5 (2.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.98%) Samba
12 2 (0.98%) Xen
13 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (36.27%) Kubernetes
2 68 (33.33%) Ansible
3 59 (28.92%) Terraform
4 31 (15.20%) Nagios
5 30 (14.71%) Puppet
6 14 (6.86%) Data Guard
7 12 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (5.39%) ZABBIX
9 9 (4.41%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (3.43%) Grafana
10 7 (3.43%) Podman
11 6 (2.94%) WSUS
12 5 (2.45%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (2.45%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (2.45%) Progress Chef
12 5 (2.45%) Prometheus
12 5 (2.45%) SCVMM
13 4 (1.96%) Argo
14 2 (0.98%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.98%) Rancher
Vendors
1 123 (60.29%) Red Hat
2 72 (35.29%) VMware
3 46 (22.55%) Microsoft
4 23 (11.27%) McAfee
4 23 (11.27%) Oracle
5 15 (7.35%) Splunk
6 12 (5.88%) IBM
6 12 (5.88%) NetApp
7 11 (5.39%) Dell
8 10 (4.90%) SolarWinds
9 8 (3.92%) Citrix
9 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.45%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.45%) Google
10 5 (2.45%) Ivanti
10 5 (2.45%) Qualys
10 5 (2.45%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.45%) Tenable
10 5 (2.45%) Veeam
10 5 (2.45%) Veracode