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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 501 505
Rank change year-on-year -75 +4 -41
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 204 187 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.38% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.20% 2.72% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 155 133 252
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,125 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £102,097
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.57% +21.00% -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 6,379 6,884 10,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.91% 13.81% 12.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,773 4,570 7,291
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -15.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -2.17%

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 22 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 22 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 -79 192 £67,500 -1.82% 46
UK excluding London -46 138 £67,500 +11.57% 36
London -65 63 £75,000 -6.25% 15
South East -9 55 £67,500 +9.76% 9
North of England -32 43 £97,500 +50.00% 5
North West +12 31 £55,000 -26.54% 4
Work from Home -68 25 £67,500 +3.85% 22
South West -57 19 £75,000 +20.00% 14
Scotland +13 10 £63,451 +49.30% 1
Midlands -42 7 £75,000 +30.43% 2
Yorkshire -41 6 £97,500 +50.00% 1
North East -47 6 £97,500 +77.27%
East Midlands -24 5 £75,000 +30.43%
East of England -36 4 £48,750 +3.17% 5
West Midlands -28 2 - - 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 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.41%) Apache
2 9 (4.41%) Confluence
2 9 (4.41%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) JBoss
4 2 (0.98%) nginx
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.90%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 69 (33.82%) AWS
2 44 (21.57%) Azure
3 24 (11.76%) GitHub
4 15 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.43%) Datadog
7 7 (3.43%) Serverless
8 6 (2.94%) GCP
8 6 (2.94%) IaaS
9 5 (2.45%) Azure Stack
9 5 (2.45%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 49 (24.02%) DNS
2 37 (18.14%) Firewall
3 25 (12.25%) SAN
4 21 (10.29%) TCP/IP
5 18 (8.82%) LAN
6 11 (5.39%) HTTP
6 11 (5.39%) WAN
6 11 (5.39%) Wireshark
7 10 (4.90%) Remote Desktop
8 9 (4.41%) iSCSI
8 9 (4.41%) NAS
9 8 (3.92%) NetScaler
10 6 (2.94%) DHCP
11 5 (2.45%) AMQP
11 5 (2.45%) Kerberos
11 5 (2.45%) VSAN
12 4 (1.96%) VPN
13 3 (1.47%) Multicast
13 3 (1.47%) SSL
13 3 (1.47%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.41%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.41%) MySQL
3 9 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.43%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.94%) Big Data
6 5 (2.45%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.49%) GIS
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 43 (21.08%) Git
2 32 (15.69%) GitLab
3 31 (15.20%) Jenkins
4 25 (12.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (6.37%) 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 34 (16.67%) Finance
3 31 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.82%) Banking
6 14 (6.86%) Aerospace
7 13 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.94%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.96%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.96%) Military
12 3 (1.47%) Automotive
12 3 (1.47%) Front Office
12 3 (1.47%) Legal
12 3 (1.47%) Spanish Language
12 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.98%) Advertising
14 1 (0.49%) Police
14 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (16.67%) Senior
2 31 (15.20%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (13.73%) Administrator
4 27 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (11.27%) Systems Administrator
6 21 (10.29%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 21 (10.29%) Principal Engineer
7 20 (9.80%) Applications Architect
7 20 (9.80%) Architect
8 15 (7.35%) Lead
9 14 (6.86%) Security Architect
10 12 (5.88%) DBA
10 12 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
11 11 (5.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 11 (5.39%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) Oracle DBA
12 10 (4.90%) Senior DBA
12 10 (4.90%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 8 (3.92%) AIX Engineer
13 8 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (30.88%) Terraform
2 24 (11.76%) LDAP
3 23 (11.27%) Regular Expression
4 19 (9.31%) XMPP
5 8 (3.92%) JSON
6 7 (3.43%) JSON Schema
6 7 (3.43%) WebSockets
6 7 (3.43%) XML
7 6 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.94%) React
8 5 (2.45%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.45%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.45%) gRPC
8 5 (2.45%) Material-UI
8 5 (2.45%) Node.js
8 5 (2.45%) OpenAPI
8 5 (2.45%) REST
8 5 (2.45%) Spring
8 5 (2.45%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.78%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.37%) PKI
4 12 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.92%) Social Media
6 7 (3.43%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.94%) Onboarding
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%) Web3
10 3 (1.47%) Clustering
10 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.47%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 204 (100.00%) Linux
2 76 (37.25%) Windows
3 66 (32.35%) Windows Server
4 60 (29.41%) CentOS
5 29 (14.22%) Unix
6 26 (12.75%) Ubuntu
7 20 (9.80%) AIX
8 17 (8.33%) Debian
9 12 (5.88%) Rocky
9 12 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (4.90%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.45%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.45%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (1.96%) Solaris
13 3 (1.47%) VMS
14 2 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.76%) DevOps
2 61 (29.90%) CI/CD
3 42 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
4 41 (20.10%) ITIL
5 37 (18.14%) High Availability
6 36 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.65%) SIEM
7 35 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 34 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 29 (14.22%) Configuration Management
10 27 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (12.75%) Microservices
12 24 (11.76%) Agile
12 24 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
13 22 (10.78%) Roadmaps
13 22 (10.78%) Validation
14 21 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.39%) Python
2 58 (28.43%) Bash
3 33 (16.18%) PowerShell
4 27 (13.24%) SQL
5 26 (12.75%) Shell Script
6 20 (9.80%) Java
7 17 (8.33%) Korn
8 11 (5.39%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.92%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.43%) PHP
11 4 (1.96%) Perl
12 2 (0.98%) C
13 1 (0.49%) C#
13 1 (0.49%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 92 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 65 (31.86%) DV Cleared
3 39 (19.12%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.78%) Degree
5 12 (5.88%) RHCSA
6 8 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.94%) RHCE
8 5 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.45%) CCSP
8 5 (2.45%) CISM
8 5 (2.45%) CISSP
9 4 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.96%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.47%) CCNA
10 3 (1.47%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.47%) MCSA
10 3 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.94%) SLA
2 5 (2.45%) GDPR
2 5 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.45%) NIST
2 5 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 64 (31.37%) Docker
2 52 (25.49%) Active Directory
3 34 (16.67%) vSphere
4 30 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (6.86%) Hyper-V
6 12 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 6 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (2.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (1.96%) KVM
12 3 (1.47%) Samba
13 2 (0.98%) Xen
14 1 (0.49%) NFS
14 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (36.27%) Ansible
2 71 (34.80%) Kubernetes
3 31 (15.20%) Puppet
4 25 (12.25%) Nagios
5 13 (6.37%) Data Guard
6 12 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (5.39%) ZABBIX
8 9 (4.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (3.92%) Podman
10 7 (3.43%) Grafana
11 5 (2.45%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.45%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.45%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.45%) SCVMM
12 4 (1.96%) Argo
12 4 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.96%) WSUS
13 2 (0.98%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.98%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.98%) Rancher
Vendors
1 124 (60.78%) Red Hat
2 64 (31.37%) VMware
3 46 (22.55%) Microsoft
4 22 (10.78%) Oracle
5 21 (10.29%) McAfee
6 13 (6.37%) Splunk
7 12 (5.88%) IBM
7 12 (5.88%) NetApp
8 10 (4.90%) Dell
9 9 (4.41%) Citrix
10 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.92%) SolarWinds
11 6 (2.94%) Google
12 5 (2.45%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.45%) Ivanti
12 5 (2.45%) Qualys
12 5 (2.45%) Rapid7
12 5 (2.45%) SaltStack
12 5 (2.45%) Veeam
12 5 (2.45%) Veracode