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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 507 572
Rank change year-on-year -50 +65 -35
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 174 164 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.10% 2.48% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 142 122 259
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £55,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £63,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +21.43% +2.94%

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 5,604 6,605 13,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.05% 15.08% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,198 4,159 10,684
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -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 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 12 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 5 June 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 -34 158 £65,000 -7.14% 50
UK excluding London -47 101 £67,500 +5.88% 39
London -21 67 £57,500 -25.81% 13
South East -19 51 £67,500 +11.57% 14
Work from Home -18 22 £70,000 - 15
North of England -54 20 £51,250 -26.79% 7
North West +5 19 £47,500 -36.56% 3
South West -36 17 £75,000 +20.00% 11
Scotland +12 10 £46,000 -
East of England -29 2 £56,250 -13.46% 5
Yorkshire -52 1 £97,500 +39.29% 3
Northern Ireland - 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 (10.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.75%) Apache
3 8 (4.60%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.02%) Confluence
5 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.30%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.72%) CMS
7 3 (1.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (26.44%) AWS
2 39 (22.41%) Azure
3 13 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.60%) IaaS
5 8 (4.60%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.60%) SaaS
6 7 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.02%) Azure Stack
6 7 (4.02%) Serverless
7 6 (3.45%) Datadog
7 6 (3.45%) GCP
8 5 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.87%) GitHub
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.72%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 54 (31.03%) DNS
2 32 (18.39%) Firewall
3 31 (17.82%) SAN
4 24 (13.79%) TCP/IP
5 21 (12.07%) LAN
6 18 (10.34%) HTTP
7 14 (8.05%) Wireshark
8 11 (6.32%) WAN
9 10 (5.75%) iSCSI
10 9 (5.17%) NAS
11 8 (4.60%) NetScaler
11 8 (4.60%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (4.02%) Multicast
13 6 (3.45%) ATM
13 6 (3.45%) tcpdump
14 5 (2.87%) AMQP
14 5 (2.87%) DHCP
15 4 (2.30%) VSAN
16 3 (1.72%) VoIP
16 3 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.75%) MySQL
4 9 (5.17%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.45%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.87%) Big Data
6 5 (2.87%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.87%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.15%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.57%) Power BI
9 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.57%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 23 (13.22%) Git
2 15 (8.62%) GitLab
3 11 (6.32%) JIRA
4 9 (5.17%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.15%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.15%) TestRail
8 1 (0.57%) git-flow
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.26%) Finance
3 24 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.92%) Banking
5 14 (8.05%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.45%) Automotive
8 6 (3.45%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.87%) Front Office
10 4 (2.30%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.72%) Military
12 2 (1.15%) Advertising
12 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Retail
12 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (17.24%) Linux Engineer
2 29 (16.67%) Administrator
3 23 (13.22%) Senior
4 21 (12.07%) Systems Administrator
5 19 (10.92%) Applications Architect
5 19 (10.92%) Architect
6 16 (9.20%) Linux Administrator
7 15 (8.62%) Support Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Linux Support
9 13 (7.47%) Linux Support Engineer
9 13 (7.47%) Security Architect
10 12 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Lead
12 9 (5.17%) DBA
12 9 (5.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 8 (4.60%) Oracle DBA
14 7 (4.02%) 3rd Line Support
14 7 (4.02%) Senior DBA
14 7 (4.02%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.92%) Regular Expression
2 16 (9.20%) LDAP
3 15 (8.62%) XMPP
4 10 (5.75%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.02%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.45%) REST
7 5 (2.87%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.87%) gRPC
7 5 (2.87%) Material-UI
7 5 (2.87%) Middleware
7 5 (2.87%) Node.js
7 5 (2.87%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.87%) React
7 5 (2.87%) Spring
7 5 (2.87%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.87%) Swagger
8 4 (2.30%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.30%) web3js
8 4 (2.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 19 (10.92%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.62%) PKI
4 14 (8.05%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.87%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.87%) Replication
7 4 (2.30%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.30%) Clustering
7 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.30%) Web3
8 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.72%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Equities
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 174 (100.00%) Linux
2 70 (40.23%) Windows
3 59 (33.91%) Windows Server
4 44 (25.29%) CentOS
5 26 (14.94%) Ubuntu
6 24 (13.79%) Unix
7 13 (7.47%) Debian
8 11 (6.32%) AIX
8 11 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (4.60%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (2.30%) CoreOS
10 4 (2.30%) Solaris
10 4 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.72%) VMS
12 2 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.03%) DevOps
2 44 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.99%) CI/CD
4 36 (20.69%) SIEM
5 31 (17.82%) ITIL
6 30 (17.24%) High Availability
7 28 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (14.37%) Configuration Management
9 23 (13.22%) Validation
10 22 (12.64%) Agile
10 22 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (12.07%) Containerisation
12 18 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (10.34%) Observability
13 17 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (9.20%) Antivirus Management
14 16 (9.20%) Application Security
14 16 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.33%) Python
2 53 (30.46%) Bash
3 31 (17.82%) SQL
4 29 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 16 (9.20%) PHP
6 14 (8.05%) Korn
6 14 (8.05%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.90%) Java
8 10 (5.75%) Perl
9 7 (4.02%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.45%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.15%) C
11 2 (1.15%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (35.63%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.56%) DV Cleared
3 20 (11.49%) Degree
4 16 (9.20%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.47%) RHCSA
6 11 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.30%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.30%) RHCE
9 3 (1.72%) CCNA
9 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.72%) MCSE
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.15%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.15%) MCSA
11 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.45%) SLA
2 2 (1.15%) NIST
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (26.44%) Active Directory
2 45 (25.86%) Docker
3 43 (24.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (19.54%) vSphere
5 12 (6.90%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (4.60%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (4.02%) KVM
8 5 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.15%) Samba
10 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 56 (32.18%) Kubernetes
2 50 (28.74%) Ansible
3 44 (25.29%) Terraform
4 27 (15.52%) Nagios
5 26 (14.94%) Puppet
6 9 (5.17%) Data Guard
6 9 (5.17%) WSUS
7 8 (4.60%) Grafana
7 8 (4.60%) Podman
8 7 (4.02%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (2.87%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.87%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.30%) Argo
10 4 (2.30%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.30%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.57%) Graylog
12 1 (0.57%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 110 (63.22%) Red Hat
2 75 (43.10%) VMware
3 41 (23.56%) Microsoft
4 22 (12.64%) McAfee
5 14 (8.05%) Oracle
6 12 (6.90%) Splunk
7 11 (6.32%) SolarWinds
8 10 (5.75%) Dell
9 8 (4.60%) Citrix
9 8 (4.60%) NetApp
10 7 (4.02%) IBM
11 6 (3.45%) Google
12 5 (2.87%) SaltStack
13 3 (1.72%) Mirantis
13 3 (1.72%) Pure Storage
13 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.72%) Veeam
14 2 (1.15%) D-Link
14 2 (1.15%) Dynatrace
14 2 (1.15%) Fujitsu