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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 501 498
Rank change year-on-year -105 -3 -51
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 197 176 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.00% 2.77% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 135 121 213
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,500 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% +9.52% -4.55%

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 6,571 6,350 9,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 12.98% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,811 4,098 5,892
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -4.26%

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 September 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 September 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 -107 185 £72,500 +11.54% 172
UK excluding London -86 137 £70,000 +21.74% 117
London -96 55 £75,000 -6.25% 63
North of England -29 51 £97,500 +50.00% 24
South East -38 42 £67,500 +4.25% 28
North West -4 36 £56,000 -6.67% 21
Work from Home -76 24 £65,000 - 54
South West -61 22 £75,000 +25.00% 17
Scotland +8 8 £63,451 +49.30% 7
Yorkshire -44 8 £97,500 +50.00% 2
East of England -35 7 £48,750 +12.07% 25
Midlands -48 7 £75,000 +30.43% 14
North East -59 7 £97,500 +77.27% 1
East Midlands -29 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
West Midlands -51 2 - - 13

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 (4.57%) Apache
1 9 (4.57%) Confluence
1 9 (4.57%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.02%) JBoss
3 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.08%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.56%) AWS
2 45 (22.84%) Azure
3 29 (14.72%) GitHub
4 16 (8.12%) OpenShift
5 13 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.57%) GCP
7 9 (4.57%) Serverless
8 5 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.54%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.54%) Datadog
8 5 (2.54%) IaaS
8 5 (2.54%) Nutanix
8 5 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.03%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.77%) DNS
2 26 (13.20%) Firewall
3 19 (9.64%) SAN
4 15 (7.61%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.60%) LAN
6 8 (4.06%) iSCSI
6 8 (4.06%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.06%) WAN
7 7 (3.55%) AMQP
7 7 (3.55%) HTTP
8 6 (3.05%) DHCP
9 5 (2.54%) Kerberos
9 5 (2.54%) VSAN
10 4 (2.03%) NAS
10 4 (2.03%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.03%) SSL
10 4 (2.03%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.52%) VoIP
12 2 (1.02%) VPN
13 1 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.60%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.57%) Hadoop
3 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.06%) Big Data
5 7 (3.55%) Cloudera CDH
5 7 (3.55%) MySQL
5 7 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.51%) GIS
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (20.81%) Git
2 37 (18.78%) GitLab
3 35 (17.77%) Jenkins
4 27 (13.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (6.09%) JIRA
6 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.02%) Maven
8 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.51%) git-flow
8 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (37.56%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.26%) Finance
3 29 (14.72%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.64%) Aerospace
6 16 (8.12%) Banking
7 11 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.03%) Military
12 3 (1.52%) Front Office
12 3 (1.52%) Legal
12 3 (1.52%) Retail
12 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.02%) Advertising
13 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.51%) Police
14 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (17.77%) Senior
2 31 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (14.21%) Linux Engineer
4 25 (12.69%) Administrator
4 25 (12.69%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 25 (12.69%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (10.15%) Systems Administrator
6 14 (7.11%) Architect
7 13 (6.60%) Applications Architect
7 13 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.09%) DBA
8 12 (6.09%) Lead
9 10 (5.08%) Oracle DBA
9 10 (5.08%) Security Architect
9 10 (5.08%) Senior DBA
9 10 (5.08%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 9 (4.57%) Linux Administrator
10 9 (4.57%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 8 (4.06%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (35.03%) Terraform
2 19 (9.64%) LDAP
3 17 (8.63%) Regular Expression
4 16 (8.12%) XMPP
5 8 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (4.06%) React
6 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.55%) gRPC
6 7 (3.55%) Material-UI
6 7 (3.55%) Node.js
6 7 (3.55%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.55%) REST
6 7 (3.55%) Spring
6 7 (3.55%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.55%) Swagger
7 5 (2.54%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.54%) JSON
7 5 (2.54%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.03%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.34%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.14%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.57%) PKI
4 8 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.06%) Social Media
5 7 (3.55%) Replication
6 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.54%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.54%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.03%) Clustering
8 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.52%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.02%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 197 (100.00%) Linux
2 69 (35.03%) Windows
3 59 (29.95%) CentOS
4 58 (29.44%) Windows Server
5 29 (14.72%) Unix
6 25 (12.69%) Ubuntu
7 20 (10.15%) AIX
7 20 (10.15%) Debian
8 14 (7.11%) Rocky
9 12 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (5.08%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.54%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.54%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (2.03%) Solaris
13 2 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.55%) DevOps
2 61 (30.96%) CI/CD
3 49 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (21.32%) ITIL
4 42 (21.32%) Platform Engineering
5 39 (19.80%) Technical Leadership
6 37 (18.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 33 (16.75%) Configuration Management
7 33 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (16.24%) High Availability
8 32 (16.24%) Microservices
9 31 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (13.71%) SIEM
11 27 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (12.69%) Agile
13 22 (11.17%) Roadmaps
14 21 (10.66%) Containerisation
15 20 (10.15%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.96%) Python
2 58 (29.44%) Bash
3 31 (15.74%) PowerShell
4 26 (13.20%) SQL
5 22 (11.17%) Java
5 22 (11.17%) Shell Script
6 17 (8.63%) Korn
7 11 (5.58%) PL/SQL
8 10 (5.08%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.03%) Perl
9 4 (2.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.02%) Bicep
10 2 (1.02%) Go
11 1 (0.51%) C#
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 96 (48.73%) Security Cleared
2 65 (32.99%) DV Cleared
3 49 (24.87%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.66%) Degree
5 9 (4.57%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.55%) RHCSA
7 6 (3.05%) CISSP
8 5 (2.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.54%) CCSP
8 5 (2.54%) CISM
9 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.03%) CCNA
9 4 (2.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.52%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.52%) MCSA
10 3 (1.52%) MCSE
10 3 (1.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.54%) GDPR
1 5 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.54%) NIST
1 5 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.03%) SLA
3 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 64 (32.49%) Docker
2 43 (21.83%) Active Directory
3 27 (13.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (12.69%) vSphere
5 13 (6.60%) Hyper-V
5 13 (6.60%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (6.09%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (3.05%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (2.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.02%) NFS
10 2 (1.02%) Xen
11 1 (0.51%) GPFS
11 1 (0.51%) Samba
11 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (40.61%) Ansible
2 68 (34.52%) Kubernetes
3 29 (14.72%) Puppet
4 22 (11.17%) Nagios
5 13 (6.60%) Data Guard
6 12 (6.09%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (6.09%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (5.08%) Podman
8 9 (4.57%) ZABBIX
9 6 (3.05%) Grafana
10 5 (2.54%) McAfee ePO
10 5 (2.54%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.54%) SCVMM
11 4 (2.03%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.03%) NetBackup
11 4 (2.03%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.52%) Nessus
12 3 (1.52%) SCOM
12 3 (1.52%) vRealize
12 3 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 123 (62.44%) Red Hat
2 49 (24.87%) VMware
3 40 (20.30%) Microsoft
4 23 (11.68%) Oracle
5 18 (9.14%) McAfee
6 13 (6.60%) IBM
7 12 (6.09%) NetApp
7 12 (6.09%) Splunk
8 8 (4.06%) Dell
8 8 (4.06%) Google
8 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.55%) Citrix
9 7 (3.55%) SaltStack
9 7 (3.55%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.55%) Veeam
10 5 (2.54%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.54%) Ivanti
10 5 (2.54%) Qualys
10 5 (2.54%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.54%) Veracode