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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 499 541
Rank change year-on-year -40 +42 +4
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 169 166 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.16% 2.52% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 135 124 261
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% +3.96%

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 5,340 6,600 13,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.89% 15.20% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,898 4,399 10,823
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,250 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,092 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.88% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -42 151 £63,750 -8.93% 73
UK excluding London -73 86 £67,500 +3.85% 51
London 0 75 £57,500 -25.81% 28
South East -9 47 £67,500 +17.39% 15
Work from Home -18 28 £70,000 - 14
North West -12 16 £56,000 -25.20% 4
North of England -58 16 £56,000 -20.00% 12
South West -48 11 £73,750 +2.44% 15
Scotland -3 10 £46,000 +5.14%
East of England -26 1 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 19 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.10%) Apache
3 8 (4.73%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.55%) Confluence
5 5 (2.96%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.37%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.78%) CMS
7 3 (1.78%) IIS
7 3 (1.78%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.78%) WordPress
8 2 (1.18%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.63%) AWS
2 34 (20.12%) Azure
3 12 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.51%) OpenShift
5 10 (5.92%) SaaS
6 9 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.73%) IaaS
8 7 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.14%) GCP
8 7 (4.14%) Serverless
9 6 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.55%) Datadog
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.37%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.37%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.78%) GitHub
11 3 (1.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (30.77%) DNS
2 30 (17.75%) Firewall
2 30 (17.75%) SAN
3 24 (14.20%) TCP/IP
4 20 (11.83%) LAN
5 17 (10.06%) HTTP
6 14 (8.28%) Wireshark
7 12 (7.10%) Multicast
8 11 (6.51%) NAS
8 11 (6.51%) WAN
9 8 (4.73%) iSCSI
9 8 (4.73%) NetScaler
9 8 (4.73%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (3.55%) ATM
10 6 (3.55%) DHCP
10 6 (3.55%) tcpdump
11 5 (2.96%) AMQP
12 3 (1.78%) SNMP
12 3 (1.78%) VSAN
13 2 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.92%) MySQL
4 6 (3.55%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.96%) Big Data
5 5 (2.96%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (2.96%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.78%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.59%) Power BI
8 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.59%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.59%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (9.47%) Git
2 13 (7.69%) GitLab
3 11 (6.51%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.33%) JIRA
5 7 (4.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (3.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.78%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.78%) TestRail
8 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.59%) git-flow
9 1 (0.59%) Maven
9 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.67%) Finance
3 20 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.28%) Banking
5 12 (7.10%) Aerospace
6 11 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.73%) Front Office
8 7 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.55%) Automotive
9 6 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.55%) Spanish Language
10 4 (2.37%) Advertising
10 4 (2.37%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.18%) Military
11 2 (1.18%) Retail
12 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (19.53%) Linux Engineer
2 31 (18.34%) Administrator
3 22 (13.02%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (11.83%) Senior
5 19 (11.24%) Linux Support
6 18 (10.65%) Support Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Systems Administrator
8 16 (9.47%) Applications Architect
8 16 (9.47%) Architect
9 15 (8.88%) Linux Support Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 11 (6.51%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Lead
11 10 (5.92%) Security Architect
12 9 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) Developer
14 7 (4.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) 3rd Line Support
14 7 (4.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.47%) Regular Expression
2 15 (8.88%) LDAP
3 12 (7.10%) XMPP
4 9 (5.33%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.14%) Middleware
6 6 (3.55%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (3.55%) REST
7 5 (2.96%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.96%) gRPC
7 5 (2.96%) Material-UI
7 5 (2.96%) Node.js
7 5 (2.96%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.96%) React
7 5 (2.96%) Spring
7 5 (2.96%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.96%) Swagger
8 4 (2.37%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.37%) JSON
8 4 (2.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.88%) PKI
3 14 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.28%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.73%) Clustering
5 6 (3.55%) Derivative
5 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.37%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.37%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.37%) Web3
8 3 (1.78%) Replication
8 3 (1.78%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.18%) FPGA
9 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.18%) Video on Demand
9 2 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 169 (100.00%) Linux
2 61 (36.09%) Windows
3 52 (30.77%) Windows Server
4 45 (26.63%) CentOS
5 24 (14.20%) Ubuntu
6 20 (11.83%) Unix
7 13 (7.69%) Debian
8 9 (5.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (4.14%) AIX
10 6 (3.55%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.96%) Solaris
12 3 (1.78%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.78%) VMS
12 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.59%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.81%) DevOps
2 45 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (20.71%) CI/CD
4 28 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (15.98%) ITIL
6 26 (15.38%) High Availability
6 26 (15.38%) SIEM
7 24 (14.20%) Configuration Management
8 23 (13.61%) Agile
9 22 (13.02%) Containerisation
10 21 (12.43%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (12.43%) Validation
11 18 (10.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (7.69%) Antivirus Management
13 13 (7.69%) Application Security
13 13 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (7.10%) Observability
14 12 (7.10%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 60 (35.50%) Python
2 51 (30.18%) Bash
3 29 (17.16%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.79%) SQL
5 15 (8.88%) Perl
6 13 (7.69%) PHP
7 12 (7.10%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.92%) Java
8 10 (5.92%) Korn
9 7 (4.14%) C++
10 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.78%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.18%) C
13 1 (0.59%) Groovy
13 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.30%) DV Cleared
3 17 (10.06%) Degree
4 15 (8.88%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.10%) RHCSA
6 9 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.55%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.37%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.37%) RHCE
10 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.59%) CCSP
12 1 (0.59%) CISM
12 1 (0.59%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.59%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.59%) MCSA
12 1 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.73%) SLA
2 2 (1.18%) NIST
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.59%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (27.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (26.63%) Docker
3 44 (26.04%) Active Directory
4 31 (18.34%) vSphere
5 9 (5.33%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (4.14%) KVM
8 5 (2.96%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.37%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (1.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.18%) Samba
12 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (33.73%) Ansible
2 54 (31.95%) Kubernetes
3 37 (21.89%) Terraform
4 24 (14.20%) Puppet
5 20 (11.83%) Nagios
6 11 (6.51%) Grafana
7 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (4.73%) WSUS
8 6 (3.55%) Podman
8 6 (3.55%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.96%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.96%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.37%) Argo
10 4 (2.37%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.78%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.78%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.78%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 112 (66.27%) Red Hat
2 79 (46.75%) VMware
3 35 (20.71%) Microsoft
4 18 (10.65%) McAfee
5 15 (8.88%) Oracle
6 11 (6.51%) Dell
6 11 (6.51%) Splunk
7 10 (5.92%) SolarWinds
8 8 (4.73%) Citrix
8 8 (4.73%) NetApp
9 6 (3.55%) Google
10 5 (2.96%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.96%) Symantec
11 4 (2.37%) Mirantis
12 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.78%) HP
12 3 (1.78%) IBM
12 3 (1.78%) Pure Storage
13 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow