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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 479 533
Rank change year-on-year -77 +54 -34
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 141 165 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.64% 2.71% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 105 118 249
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,882
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -

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 5,345 6,079 13,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.95% 14.77% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,931 4,321 10,632
10th Percentile £27,161 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -12.38%
75th Percentile £66,750 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,750 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.67% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -70 126 £60,000 -14.29% 65
London -2 75 £70,000 -15.15% 14
UK excluding London -89 58 £55,000 -15.38% 55
South East -18 34 £52,500 -12.50% 14
Work from Home -23 23 £85,000 +21.43% 30
South West -42 8 £57,500 -20.13% 13
Scotland -21 7 £46,000 +5.14% 2
North West -26 7 £55,000 -26.54% 10
North of England -63 7 £55,000 -24.07% 19
East of England -31 1 £70,000 +16.67% 2
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 12 (8.51%) Apache
1 12 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (8.51%) Tomcat
2 8 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.96%) WebSphere
4 6 (4.26%) Confluence
4 6 (4.26%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (3.55%) Apache Spark
5 5 (3.55%) IIS
6 3 (2.13%) CMS
6 3 (2.13%) WordPress
7 2 (1.42%) nginx
7 2 (1.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.95%) AWS
2 26 (18.44%) Azure
3 15 (10.64%) OpenShift
4 14 (9.93%) SaaS
5 12 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.38%) Serverless
8 7 (4.96%) IaaS
9 6 (4.26%) GCP
10 4 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.84%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.84%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (2.13%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.13%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.13%) Datadog
11 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.13%) Route 53
11 3 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (30.50%) DNS
2 22 (15.60%) TCP/IP
3 19 (13.48%) Firewall
3 19 (13.48%) Multicast
3 19 (13.48%) SAN
4 16 (11.35%) LAN
5 15 (10.64%) HTTP
6 11 (7.80%) WAN
6 11 (7.80%) Wireshark
7 8 (5.67%) SSL
8 7 (4.96%) ATM
8 7 (4.96%) DHCP
8 7 (4.96%) NAS
8 7 (4.96%) tcpdump
9 5 (3.55%) AMQP
9 5 (3.55%) VSAN
10 4 (2.84%) NetScaler
11 3 (2.13%) iSCSI
11 3 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (9.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.96%) DB2
2 7 (4.96%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.26%) Big Data
3 6 (4.26%) MySQL
4 5 (3.55%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (3.55%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.13%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.71%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.71%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.71%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (10.64%) Git
2 12 (8.51%) GitLab
3 10 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.67%) JIRA
5 7 (4.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.13%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.13%) TestRail
General
1 46 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.37%) Finance
3 15 (10.64%) Banking
4 13 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.22%) Front Office
5 12 (8.51%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.96%) Automotive
6 7 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.13%) Advertising
10 2 (1.42%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (20.57%) Administrator
2 28 (19.86%) Linux Support
3 27 (19.15%) Linux Engineer
4 22 (15.60%) Linux Administrator
4 22 (15.60%) Support Engineer
5 19 (13.48%) Linux Support Engineer
6 14 (9.93%) Senior
7 13 (9.22%) C++ Developer
7 13 (9.22%) Developer
7 13 (9.22%) Systems Administrator
8 10 (7.09%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (6.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 9 (6.38%) Unix Support
10 8 (5.67%) Applications Architect
10 8 (5.67%) Architect
10 8 (5.67%) Linux Specialist
10 8 (5.67%) Support Specialist
11 7 (4.96%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.93%) LDAP
2 12 (8.51%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (5.67%) Regular Expression
4 7 (4.96%) Middleware
5 6 (4.26%) Kafka
5 6 (4.26%) LAPP Stack
5 6 (4.26%) REST
5 6 (4.26%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (3.55%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.55%) gRPC
6 5 (3.55%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.55%) Node.js
6 5 (3.55%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.55%) React
6 5 (3.55%) Spring
6 5 (3.55%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.55%) Swagger
6 5 (3.55%) WebSockets
7 4 (2.84%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.51%) Derivative
3 11 (7.80%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.80%) PKI
4 9 (6.38%) Clustering
5 6 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.84%) Replication
7 4 (2.84%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.84%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.42%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.42%) FPGA
9 2 (1.42%) Web3
10 1 (0.71%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 141 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (35.46%) Windows
3 47 (33.33%) CentOS
4 38 (26.95%) Windows Server
5 20 (14.18%) Ubuntu
6 19 (13.48%) Unix
7 10 (7.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (5.67%) Debian
10 6 (4.26%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.13%) AIX
12 3 (2.13%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.42%) Solaris
14 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (23.40%) DevOps
3 25 (17.73%) ITIL
4 24 (17.02%) Agile
4 24 (17.02%) CI/CD
4 24 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (16.31%) Configuration Management
6 18 (12.77%) Containerisation
7 17 (12.06%) SIEM
8 16 (11.35%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (10.64%) High Availability
10 14 (9.93%) Change Management
10 14 (9.93%) Migration
11 13 (9.22%) Low Latency
11 13 (9.22%) Validation
12 12 (8.51%) Concurrent Programming
12 12 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (8.51%) SOA
12 12 (8.51%) Systems Analysis
12 12 (8.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.39%) Python
2 42 (29.79%) Bash
3 27 (19.15%) PowerShell
4 20 (14.18%) SQL
5 19 (13.48%) Perl
6 14 (9.93%) PHP
7 13 (9.22%) C++
7 13 (9.22%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.96%) Java
9 5 (3.55%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.55%) Korn
10 3 (2.13%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.42%) C
12 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.57%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.93%) Degree
4 13 (9.22%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.80%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (7.09%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.67%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.84%) RHCE
9 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.42%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.71%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.22%) SLA
2 1 (0.71%) NIST
2 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 41 (29.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (24.11%) Docker
3 31 (21.99%) Active Directory
4 22 (15.60%) vSphere
5 8 (5.67%) KVM
6 5 (3.55%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.42%) Samba
9 1 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (36.17%) Ansible
2 45 (31.91%) Kubernetes
3 23 (16.31%) Terraform
4 19 (13.48%) Puppet
5 16 (11.35%) Nagios
6 10 (7.09%) Grafana
7 7 (4.96%) WSUS
8 5 (3.55%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.55%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.84%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.84%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.84%) SCVMM
10 3 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (2.13%) Podman
11 2 (1.42%) Argo
11 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.42%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.71%) Graylog
Vendors
1 83 (58.87%) Red Hat
2 61 (43.26%) VMware
3 16 (11.35%) Oracle
4 14 (9.93%) McAfee
5 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
6 10 (7.09%) IBM
6 10 (7.09%) Splunk
7 5 (3.55%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.55%) Dell
7 5 (3.55%) Google
7 5 (3.55%) SaltStack
7 5 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.55%) SolarWinds
7 5 (3.55%) Symantec
8 4 (2.84%) Citrix
8 4 (2.84%) NetApp
9 3 (2.13%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.42%) D-Link
10 2 (1.42%) HP
10 2 (1.42%) Mirantis