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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 499 429
Rank change year-on-year +3 -70 +52
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 159 251 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.40% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.11% 2.84% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 105 158 239
10th Percentile £46,175 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +3.91% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £93,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 5,119 8,845 8,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.08% 14.24% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 5,223 7,214
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +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 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 14 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 December 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 +31 151 £67,500 +3.11% 54
London +80 90 £85,000 - 27
UK excluding London -8 63 £55,000 -4.35% 40
Work from Home +51 56 £85,000 +39.34% 15
South East +27 24 £60,500 +34.44% 18
East of England +20 12 £43,000 -23.21% 3
North of England +16 11 £65,000 -0.71% 1
South West -10 7 £56,250 -25.00% 9
North West +41 6 £60,000 -8.35%
Midlands +26 6 £57,500 +43.75% 4
East Midlands +8 5 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Yorkshire -16 5 £65,000 -0.71% 1
Scotland -8 4 £53,750 -36.76% 2
West Midlands +31 1 £52,500 -19.80% 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 22 (13.84%) Tomcat
2 20 (12.58%) WebSphere
3 16 (10.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (10.06%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (6.92%) Apache
5 5 (3.14%) IIS
6 4 (2.52%) Confluence
7 3 (1.89%) JBoss
7 3 (1.89%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
8 2 (1.26%) nginx
8 2 (1.26%) WildFly
9 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (41.51%) AWS
2 30 (18.87%) Azure
3 17 (10.69%) OpenShift
4 14 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.55%) GitHub
6 11 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (6.92%) Cohesity
7 10 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.66%) Serverless
9 8 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.03%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.40%) Route 53
10 7 (4.40%) SaaS
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (3.77%) GCP
11 6 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.47%) Firewall
2 22 (13.84%) SAN
3 18 (11.32%) DNS
4 17 (10.69%) SSL
5 15 (9.43%) LAN
5 15 (9.43%) WAN
6 14 (8.81%) TCP/IP
7 12 (7.55%) Multicast
8 11 (6.92%) DHCP
9 9 (5.66%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (5.03%) iSCSI
10 8 (5.03%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (4.40%) VSAN
12 3 (1.89%) Skype
12 3 (1.89%) VPN
13 2 (1.26%) HTTP
13 2 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (1.26%) PBX
13 2 (1.26%) SNMP
13 2 (1.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
1 26 (16.35%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.32%) DB2
3 11 (6.92%) MySQL
4 7 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.89%) Big Data
5 3 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.26%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.26%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.63%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (14.47%) Git
2 18 (11.32%) GitLab
3 11 (6.92%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.40%) JIRA
5 5 (3.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.14%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.89%) Ant
6 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.89%) Maven
6 3 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.63%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 58 (36.48%) Finance
2 39 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.84%) Banking
4 12 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (6.92%) Front Office
6 10 (6.29%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.52%) Advertising
7 4 (2.52%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Electronics
8 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.26%) Military
8 2 (1.26%) Retail
8 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.63%) Automotive
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (27.04%) Linux Engineer
2 37 (23.27%) Administrator
3 30 (18.87%) Linux Support
4 25 (15.72%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (11.95%) Support Engineer
6 17 (10.69%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.69%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (10.06%) Infrastructure Support
7 16 (10.06%) Linux Support Engineer
8 14 (8.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.81%) Unix Support
9 12 (7.55%) Senior
10 11 (6.92%) C++ Developer
10 11 (6.92%) Cisco Engineer
10 11 (6.92%) Developer
11 10 (6.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (6.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 10 (6.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.32%) LDAP
2 16 (10.06%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (10.06%) WebSphere MQ
3 11 (6.92%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (5.66%) Kafka
5 8 (5.03%) Middleware
6 4 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.89%) LAMP
7 3 (1.89%) REST
8 2 (1.26%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.26%) gRPC
8 2 (1.26%) Material-UI
8 2 (1.26%) Node.js
8 2 (1.26%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.26%) React
8 2 (1.26%) Spring
8 2 (1.26%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.26%) Swagger
9 1 (0.63%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.61%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.58%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (8.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.92%) Derivative
5 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.66%) Data Centre
7 7 (4.40%) Clustering
8 5 (3.14%) Driving Licence
8 5 (3.14%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.52%) Video on Demand
9 4 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.89%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.89%) PKI
10 3 (1.89%) Replication
10 3 (1.89%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.26%) FPGA
11 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 159 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (40.88%) Windows
3 36 (22.64%) Unix
4 35 (22.01%) CentOS
5 27 (16.98%) Windows Server
6 22 (13.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (8.18%) Solaris
8 12 (7.55%) Ubuntu
9 11 (6.92%) Debian
10 8 (5.03%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (3.77%) Windows 10
12 5 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (2.52%) AIX
13 4 (2.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (1.89%) CoreOS
15 2 (1.26%) HPUX
15 2 (1.26%) VMS
16 1 (0.63%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.63%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.82%) ITIL
2 36 (22.64%) DevOps
3 29 (18.24%) Containerisation
4 25 (15.72%) Change Management
5 24 (15.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 22 (13.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (12.58%) Low Latency
8 19 (11.95%) Release Management
9 16 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.06%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (8.81%) Agile
11 14 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (8.81%) Incident Response
11 14 (8.81%) Time Management
12 13 (8.18%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.55%) Configuration Management
13 12 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.92%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 77 (48.43%) Python
2 56 (35.22%) Bash
3 26 (16.35%) PowerShell
4 16 (10.06%) Korn
5 12 (7.55%) C++
6 10 (6.29%) Perl
7 8 (5.03%) Java
7 8 (5.03%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.40%) SQL
9 4 (2.52%) PHP
10 3 (1.89%) Groovy
11 2 (1.26%) C
11 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (20.75%) Degree
2 32 (20.13%) Security Cleared
3 26 (16.35%) AWS Certification
4 21 (13.21%) DV Cleared
5 20 (12.58%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (9.43%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.40%) CCNA
8 7 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.40%) RHCE
9 6 (3.77%) MCSE
9 6 (3.77%) RHCSA
9 6 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (1.26%) CCNP
13 2 (1.26%) Dell Certification
13 2 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.26%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.13%) SLA
2 10 (6.29%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (27.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (18.87%) Active Directory
3 25 (15.72%) Docker
4 17 (10.69%) vSphere
5 11 (6.92%) Hyper-V
5 11 (6.92%) NFS
6 8 (5.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.26%) KVM
9 2 (1.26%) pfSense
9 2 (1.26%) Postfix
9 2 (1.26%) Samba
10 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.63%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (42.14%) Ansible
2 45 (28.30%) Kubernetes
3 28 (17.61%) Terraform
4 15 (9.43%) Puppet
5 11 (6.92%) WSUS
6 10 (6.29%) Grafana
7 9 (5.66%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (5.03%) SCOM
9 6 (3.77%) Nagios
9 6 (3.77%) Progress Chef
9 6 (3.77%) SCCM
10 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (3.14%) Podman
11 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.89%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (1.89%) SCVMM
13 2 (1.26%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 2 (1.26%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 100 (62.89%) Red Hat
2 63 (39.62%) VMware
3 28 (17.61%) Microsoft
4 22 (13.84%) Cisco
4 22 (13.84%) IBM
5 21 (13.21%) Oracle
6 14 (8.81%) Commvault
7 13 (8.18%) Dell
7 13 (8.18%) Splunk
8 11 (6.92%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.03%) NetApp
9 8 (5.03%) Pure Storage
10 7 (4.40%) HP
11 4 (2.52%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.52%) Symantec
12 3 (1.89%) McAfee
13 2 (1.26%) EMC
13 2 (1.26%) Fujitsu
13 2 (1.26%) Google
13 2 (1.26%) Juniper