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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 508 492
Rank change year-on-year -113 -16 -69
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 190 163 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.85% 2.70% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 124 108 197
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,213 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,866 £52,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £101,250 £81,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,000 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £58,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year +27.66% +8.80% -1.82%

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 6,664 6,045 9,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.63% 12.32% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,790 4,000 5,332
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,428 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -17.15% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.84% -20.00% +0.60%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -113 178 £75,000 +15.38% 153
UK excluding London -93 130 £75,000 +27.66% 107
London -81 55 £75,000 -6.25% 54
North of England -26 48 £97,500 +50.00% 28
South East -41 35 £67,500 -2.17% 25
North West -4 31 £40,000 -33.33% 17
South West -55 23 £75,000 +33.33% 20
Work from Home -90 18 £75,000 - 62
Yorkshire -32 9 £97,500 +50.00% 9
Scotland +6 8 £71,726 +68.77% 13
East of England -40 8 £48,750 +13.37% 13
Midlands -54 8 £75,000 +30.43% 6
North East -62 8 £97,500 +77.27% 2
East Midlands -33 5 £75,000 +30.43% 2
West Midlands -41 3 - - 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 9 (4.74%) Apache
2 8 (4.21%) Confluence
3 7 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.68%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.05%) JBoss
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 10 (5.26%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.53%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 73 (38.42%) AWS
2 43 (22.63%) Azure
3 30 (15.79%) GitHub
4 18 (9.47%) OpenShift
5 10 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.21%) GCP
8 7 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.68%) Serverless
9 5 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.11%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.11%) IaaS
10 4 (2.11%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.58%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 36 (18.95%) DNS
2 22 (11.58%) Firewall
3 17 (8.95%) SAN
3 17 (8.95%) TCP/IP
4 13 (6.84%) LAN
5 9 (4.74%) HTTP
6 8 (4.21%) WAN
7 7 (3.68%) AMQP
8 6 (3.16%) DHCP
9 5 (2.63%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (2.63%) SSL
9 5 (2.63%) VSAN
10 4 (2.11%) Kerberos
10 4 (2.11%) NAS
10 4 (2.11%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.11%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.58%) VoIP
12 2 (1.05%) BGP
12 2 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.84%) Oracle Database
2 11 (5.79%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.26%) Big Data
4 9 (4.74%) Hadoop
5 8 (4.21%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.68%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.11%) MySQL
8 3 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.05%) Power BI
10 1 (0.53%) GIS
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (23.16%) Git
2 43 (22.63%) GitLab
3 37 (19.47%) Jenkins
4 29 (15.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (5.26%) JIRA
6 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.53%) JMeter
8 1 (0.53%) Maven
8 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.42%) Finance
3 33 (17.37%) Public Sector
4 25 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.05%) Aerospace
6 16 (8.42%) Banking
7 11 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.11%) Military
11 3 (1.58%) Legal
11 3 (1.58%) Retail
11 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.05%) Front Office
12 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.53%) Law
13 1 (0.53%) Police
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (19.47%) Senior
2 35 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (15.26%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 29 (15.26%) Principal Engineer
4 28 (14.74%) Administrator
5 23 (12.11%) Linux Engineer
5 23 (12.11%) Systems Administrator
6 12 (6.32%) DBA
6 12 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.32%) Linux Administrator
7 11 (5.79%) Architect
7 11 (5.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.26%) Applications Architect
8 10 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
8 10 (5.26%) Senior DBA
8 10 (5.26%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 10 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.21%) Consultant
9 8 (4.21%) Lead
9 8 (4.21%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (37.37%) Terraform
2 15 (7.89%) LDAP
3 14 (7.37%) Regular Expression
4 13 (6.84%) XMPP
5 8 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (4.21%) React
6 7 (3.68%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.68%) gRPC
6 7 (3.68%) Material-UI
6 7 (3.68%) Node.js
6 7 (3.68%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.68%) REST
6 7 (3.68%) Spring
6 7 (3.68%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.68%) Swagger
7 5 (2.63%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.63%) JSON
7 5 (2.63%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.11%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (24.74%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.26%) PKI
4 8 (4.21%) Social Media
5 7 (3.68%) Replication
6 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.63%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.63%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.63%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.11%) Clustering
8 4 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 190 (100.00%) Linux
2 67 (35.26%) Windows
3 61 (32.11%) CentOS
4 57 (30.00%) Windows Server
5 27 (14.21%) Unix
6 24 (12.63%) Ubuntu
7 18 (9.47%) AIX
7 18 (9.47%) Debian
8 17 (8.95%) Rocky
9 12 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.63%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.63%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.05%) Solaris
13 1 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.47%) DevOps
2 63 (33.16%) CI/CD
3 53 (27.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (23.16%) Platform Engineering
4 44 (23.16%) Technical Leadership
5 40 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 37 (19.47%) ITIL
7 36 (18.95%) Microservices
8 33 (17.37%) Configuration Management
9 29 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (13.16%) Agile
13 25 (13.16%) High Availability
14 24 (12.63%) SIEM
15 21 (11.05%) Roadmaps
16 20 (10.53%) Containerisation
17 18 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.53%) Python
2 57 (30.00%) Bash
3 26 (13.68%) PowerShell
3 26 (13.68%) Shell Script
3 26 (13.68%) SQL
4 21 (11.05%) Java
5 14 (7.37%) Korn
6 11 (5.79%) PL/SQL
7 10 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.11%) Perl
8 4 (2.11%) PHP
9 3 (1.58%) Bicep
9 3 (1.58%) Go
10 2 (1.05%) C#
11 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 98 (51.58%) Security Cleared
2 69 (36.32%) DV Cleared
3 52 (27.37%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.42%) Degree
5 9 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.68%) RHCSA
7 6 (3.16%) CISSP
8 5 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.63%) CCNA
9 4 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.11%) CCSP
9 4 (2.11%) CISM
9 4 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.58%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.58%) MCSA
10 3 (1.58%) MCSE
11 2 (1.05%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.11%) GDPR
1 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.11%) NIST
1 4 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (2.11%) SLA
2 2 (1.05%) QA
3 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (30.53%) Docker
2 38 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 28 (14.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (13.68%) vSphere
5 14 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (6.84%) Hyper-V
7 11 (5.79%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (1.05%) NFS
9 2 (1.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.05%) Xen
10 1 (0.53%) GPFS
10 1 (0.53%) Samba
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (43.16%) Ansible
2 66 (34.74%) Kubernetes
3 27 (14.21%) Puppet
4 23 (12.11%) Nagios
5 12 (6.32%) Data Guard
5 12 (6.32%) Oracle RMAN
6 10 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (4.74%) Podman
8 7 (3.68%) ZABBIX
9 5 (2.63%) Grafana
9 5 (2.63%) McAfee ePO
9 5 (2.63%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.63%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.63%) SCVMM
10 4 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.11%) Nessus
10 4 (2.11%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.11%) SCOM
10 4 (2.11%) vRealize
11 3 (1.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 111 (58.42%) Red Hat
2 47 (24.74%) VMware
3 34 (17.89%) Microsoft
4 21 (11.05%) Oracle
5 15 (7.89%) McAfee
6 13 (6.84%) IBM
6 13 (6.84%) NetApp
7 11 (5.79%) Splunk
8 8 (4.21%) Citrix
8 8 (4.21%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.68%) Google
9 7 (3.68%) SaltStack
9 7 (3.68%) Veeam
10 6 (3.16%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.63%) Cisco
11 5 (2.63%) Dell
12 4 (2.11%) HP
12 4 (2.11%) Ivanti
12 4 (2.11%) Qualys
12 4 (2.11%) Rapid7