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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 508 420
Rank change year-on-year +11 -88 +73
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 166 251 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.37% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.18% 2.73% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 108 159 243
10th Percentile £46,213 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £65,465 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% +3.91% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +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 5,215 9,210 8,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 13.71% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,925 5,373 7,252
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,875 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +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 27 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 14 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 27 November 2025. 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 +29 157 £69,000 +5.40% 48
London +67 91 £85,000 - 22
UK excluding London +2 70 £57,500 - 43
Work from Home +69 55 £80,000 +25.98% 26
South East +36 29 £60,500 +34.44% 26
East of England +29 12 £43,000 -22.52% 2
North of England +45 11 £65,000 -0.71% 1
South West -12 7 £56,250 -25.00% 5
North West +54 6 £60,000 -8.35% 1
Midlands +37 6 £57,500 +43.75% 6
Scotland +2 6 £53,750 -37.68% 3
East Midlands +20 5 £57,500 +43.75%
Yorkshire -3 5 £65,000 -0.71%
West Midlands +60 1 £52,500 -19.80% 6

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 22 (13.25%) Tomcat
2 20 (12.05%) WebSphere
3 19 (11.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (9.64%) WebSphere Application Server
5 12 (7.23%) Apache
6 5 (3.01%) IIS
7 4 (2.41%) Confluence
8 3 (1.81%) JBoss
8 3 (1.81%) Skype for Business
9 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
9 2 (1.20%) WildFly
10 1 (0.60%) nginx
10 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (40.36%) AWS
2 35 (21.08%) Azure
3 17 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (9.64%) GitHub
4 16 (9.64%) OpenShift
5 11 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (6.63%) Cohesity
6 10 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.42%) Serverless
8 8 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.82%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.22%) Route 53
9 7 (4.22%) SaaS
10 6 (3.61%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (3.61%) GCP
10 6 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.01%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.66%) Firewall
2 23 (13.86%) SAN
3 17 (10.24%) DNS
3 17 (10.24%) SSL
4 15 (9.04%) LAN
4 15 (9.04%) WAN
5 14 (8.43%) TCP/IP
6 11 (6.63%) Multicast
7 10 (6.02%) DHCP
7 10 (6.02%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (6.02%) iSCSI
7 10 (6.02%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (4.22%) VSAN
9 3 (1.81%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.81%) Skype
9 3 (1.81%) VPN
10 2 (1.20%) AMQP
10 2 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.20%) Network Security
10 2 (1.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.87%) PostgreSQL
1 28 (16.87%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.84%) DB2
3 13 (7.83%) MySQL
4 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.81%) Big Data
5 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (17.47%) Git
2 18 (10.84%) GitLab
3 12 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.22%) JIRA
5 5 (3.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.01%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.81%) Ant
6 3 (1.81%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.81%) Maven
6 3 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (34.34%) Finance
2 42 (25.30%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.25%) Banking
4 14 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.02%) Front Office
5 10 (6.02%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.41%) Advertising
6 4 (2.41%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.81%) Law
7 3 (1.81%) Marketing
7 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Electronics
8 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.20%) Military
8 2 (1.20%) Retail
8 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.60%) Automotive
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (27.11%) Linux Engineer
2 37 (22.29%) Administrator
3 29 (17.47%) Linux Support
4 24 (14.46%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (11.45%) Support Engineer
6 17 (10.24%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (10.24%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (9.64%) Linux Support Engineer
8 15 (9.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (9.04%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (8.43%) Cisco Engineer
9 14 (8.43%) Senior
10 13 (7.83%) Unix Support
11 12 (7.23%) VMware Engineer
12 11 (6.63%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.63%) Linux/Unix DevOps
13 10 (6.02%) C++ Developer
13 10 (6.02%) Developer
13 10 (6.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.24%) LDAP
2 16 (9.64%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (9.64%) WebSphere MQ
3 10 (6.02%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (5.42%) Kafka
5 8 (4.82%) Middleware
6 5 (3.01%) REST
7 3 (1.81%) .NET
7 3 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.81%) LAMP
8 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.20%) gRPC
8 2 (1.20%) Material-UI
8 2 (1.20%) Node.js
8 2 (1.20%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.20%) React
8 2 (1.20%) Spring
8 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.07%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.05%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (10.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.23%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.02%) Derivative
6 9 (5.42%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.61%) Clustering
7 6 (3.61%) Driving Licence
8 5 (3.01%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.41%) Video on Demand
9 4 (2.41%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.81%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.81%) PKI
10 3 (1.81%) Replication
10 3 (1.81%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 166 (100.00%) Linux
2 72 (43.37%) Windows
3 36 (21.69%) CentOS
3 36 (21.69%) Unix
4 29 (17.47%) Windows Server
5 26 (15.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (8.43%) Solaris
6 14 (8.43%) Ubuntu
7 11 (6.63%) Debian
8 8 (4.82%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (4.22%) Windows 10
10 5 (3.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (2.41%) AIX
11 4 (2.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (1.81%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.81%) HPUX
13 2 (1.20%) VMS
14 1 (0.60%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.60%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.93%) ITIL
2 42 (25.30%) DevOps
3 30 (18.07%) Containerisation
4 27 (16.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 25 (15.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (14.46%) Change Management
7 22 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (11.45%) Low Latency
8 19 (11.45%) Release Management
9 17 (10.24%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (9.64%) Incident Response
10 16 (9.64%) Time Management
10 16 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (9.04%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.43%) CI/CD
12 14 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (7.83%) Agile
14 12 (7.23%) Configuration Management
15 11 (6.63%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (46.99%) Python
2 57 (34.34%) Bash
3 27 (16.27%) PowerShell
4 18 (10.84%) Korn
5 11 (6.63%) C++
6 9 (5.42%) Java
6 9 (5.42%) Perl
6 9 (5.42%) SQL
7 8 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.61%) PHP
9 3 (1.81%) Groovy
10 2 (1.20%) C
10 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.60%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (21.08%) Degree
2 33 (19.88%) Security Cleared
3 25 (15.06%) AWS Certification
4 21 (12.65%) DV Cleared
5 19 (11.45%) ITIL Certification
6 16 (9.64%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (4.82%) CCNA
8 8 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (4.22%) MCSE
9 7 (4.22%) RHCE
9 7 (4.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (3.61%) RHCSA
11 5 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
13 2 (1.20%) Dell Certification
13 2 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.67%) SLA
2 10 (6.02%) QA
3 2 (1.20%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (28.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (19.28%) Active Directory
3 28 (16.87%) Docker
4 19 (11.45%) vSphere
5 14 (8.43%) NFS
6 11 (6.63%) Hyper-V
7 10 (6.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.20%) KVM
11 2 (1.20%) pfSense
11 2 (1.20%) Postfix
11 2 (1.20%) Samba
12 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.60%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (42.77%) Ansible
2 52 (31.33%) Kubernetes
3 34 (20.48%) Terraform
4 15 (9.04%) Puppet
5 11 (6.63%) Grafana
5 11 (6.63%) WSUS
6 8 (4.82%) Red Hat Satellite
6 8 (4.82%) SCOM
7 6 (3.61%) Nagios
7 6 (3.61%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.61%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.61%) SCCM
8 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (3.01%) Podman
9 3 (1.81%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (1.81%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.20%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 100 (60.24%) Red Hat
2 68 (40.96%) VMware
3 33 (19.88%) Microsoft
4 27 (16.27%) Cisco
5 22 (13.25%) IBM
6 21 (12.65%) Oracle
7 18 (10.84%) Commvault
8 16 (9.64%) Splunk
9 14 (8.43%) Dell
10 11 (6.63%) ServiceNow
11 10 (6.02%) Pure Storage
12 8 (4.82%) NetApp
13 6 (3.61%) HP
14 4 (2.41%) Atlassian
15 3 (1.81%) McAfee
15 3 (1.81%) Symantec
16 2 (1.20%) EMC
16 2 (1.20%) Fujitsu
16 2 (1.20%) Google
16 2 (1.20%) Juniper