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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 520 574
Rank change year-on-year -36 +54 -50
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 178 165 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.16% 2.53% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 146 125 264
10th Percentile £45,500 £51,250 £39,223
25th Percentile £50,313 £55,000 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +19.05% +2.44%

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 5,639 6,520 13,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.10% 14.75% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,222 4,210 10,756
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 11 June 2026.

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 11 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 -47 162 £65,000 -7.14% 35
UK excluding London -25 104 £67,500 +8.00% 24
London -22 68 £57,500 -24.59% 11
South East -5 52 £67,500 +11.57% 9
Work from Home -16 23 £70,000 - 16
North of England -28 22 £43,750 -37.50% 4
North West +21 21 £40,000 -46.57% 2
South West -38 15 £75,000 +20.00% 8
Scotland +18 10 £46,000 -
East Midlands -21 2 £75,000 +57.89% 2
Midlands -23 2 £75,000 +22.45% 2
East of England -24 2 £56,250 -8.16% 1
Yorkshire -51 1 £97,500 +44.44% 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 19 (10.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.62%) Apache
3 8 (4.49%) Confluence
3 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.81%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.25%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.69%) CMS
6 3 (1.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (4.49%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.84%) AWS
2 40 (22.47%) Azure
3 13 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.49%) IaaS
5 8 (4.49%) OpenShift
6 7 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.93%) Azure Stack
6 7 (3.93%) SaaS
6 7 (3.93%) Serverless
7 6 (3.37%) Datadog
7 6 (3.37%) GCP
8 5 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.81%) GitHub
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.69%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 55 (30.90%) DNS
2 34 (19.10%) Firewall
3 31 (17.42%) SAN
4 24 (13.48%) TCP/IP
5 21 (11.80%) LAN
6 17 (9.55%) HTTP
7 14 (7.87%) Wireshark
8 11 (6.18%) WAN
9 10 (5.62%) iSCSI
10 9 (5.06%) NAS
10 9 (5.06%) Remote Desktop
11 8 (4.49%) NetScaler
12 6 (3.37%) ATM
12 6 (3.37%) Multicast
12 6 (3.37%) tcpdump
13 5 (2.81%) AMQP
13 5 (2.81%) DHCP
14 4 (2.25%) VSAN
15 3 (1.69%) VoIP
15 3 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.06%) MySQL
3 9 (5.06%) Oracle Database
4 7 (3.93%) Hadoop
5 6 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.81%) Big Data
6 5 (2.81%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.12%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.56%) Power BI
9 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.56%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 24 (13.48%) Git
2 15 (8.43%) GitLab
3 13 (7.30%) JIRA
4 9 (5.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.12%) TestRail
8 1 (0.56%) git-flow
8 1 (0.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.22%) Finance
3 26 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.24%) Banking
5 14 (7.87%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Automotive
8 6 (3.37%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.81%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.25%) Front Office
10 4 (2.25%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.69%) Military
12 2 (1.12%) Advertising
12 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.12%) Retail
12 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (16.85%) Administrator
2 28 (15.73%) Linux Engineer
3 26 (14.61%) Senior
4 23 (12.92%) Systems Administrator
5 20 (11.24%) Applications Architect
5 20 (11.24%) Architect
6 16 (8.99%) Linux Administrator
7 14 (7.87%) Security Architect
7 14 (7.87%) Support Engineer
8 12 (6.74%) Linux Support
8 12 (6.74%) Linux Support Engineer
8 12 (6.74%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 11 (6.18%) Lead
10 10 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) DBA
11 9 (5.06%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Oracle DBA
12 8 (4.49%) Senior DBA
12 8 (4.49%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 7 (3.93%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.80%) Regular Expression
2 19 (10.67%) LDAP
3 17 (9.55%) XMPP
4 10 (5.62%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.93%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.37%) REST
7 5 (2.81%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.81%) gRPC
7 5 (2.81%) JSON
7 5 (2.81%) JSON Schema
7 5 (2.81%) Material-UI
7 5 (2.81%) Middleware
7 5 (2.81%) Node.js
7 5 (2.81%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.81%) React
7 5 (2.81%) Spring
7 5 (2.81%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.81%) Swagger
7 5 (2.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Data Centre
2 19 (10.67%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.99%) PKI
4 14 (7.87%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.37%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.81%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.25%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.25%) Replication
7 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.25%) Web3
8 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.69%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.12%) Clustering
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 1 (0.56%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 178 (100.00%) Linux
2 72 (40.45%) Windows
3 61 (34.27%) Windows Server
4 43 (24.16%) CentOS
5 26 (14.61%) Ubuntu
6 24 (13.48%) Unix
7 13 (7.30%) Debian
8 12 (6.74%) AIX
9 11 (6.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (5.06%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (2.25%) CoreOS
11 4 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.69%) Solaris
12 3 (1.69%) VMS
13 2 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.12%) OpenVMS
13 2 (1.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.90%) DevOps
2 44 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.47%) CI/CD
3 40 (22.47%) SIEM
4 31 (17.42%) High Availability
4 31 (17.42%) ITIL
5 28 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (14.61%) Configuration Management
7 25 (14.04%) Validation
8 23 (12.92%) Agile
8 23 (12.92%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (11.80%) Containerisation
10 21 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (11.80%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (10.11%) Observability
13 17 (9.55%) Antivirus Management
13 17 (9.55%) Application Security
14 16 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.02%) Python
2 53 (29.78%) Bash
3 33 (18.54%) SQL
4 30 (16.85%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.99%) Shell Script
6 15 (8.43%) Korn
6 15 (8.43%) PHP
7 14 (7.87%) Java
8 9 (5.06%) Perl
9 8 (4.49%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.93%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.12%) C
12 1 (0.56%) C++
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.72%) DV Cleared
3 22 (12.36%) Degree
4 15 (8.43%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.30%) RHCSA
6 11 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.25%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.25%) RHCE
9 3 (1.69%) CCNA
9 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.69%) MCSE
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.12%) CCSP
10 2 (1.12%) CISM
10 2 (1.12%) CISSP
10 2 (1.12%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.12%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.81%) SLA
2 3 (1.69%) NIST
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (27.53%) Active Directory
2 44 (24.72%) Docker
3 43 (24.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (20.22%) vSphere
5 12 (6.74%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.06%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (4.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (3.93%) KVM
9 6 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.12%) Samba
11 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (32.02%) Kubernetes
2 49 (27.53%) Ansible
3 44 (24.72%) Terraform
4 27 (15.17%) Nagios
5 26 (14.61%) Puppet
6 9 (5.06%) Data Guard
6 9 (5.06%) Grafana
6 9 (5.06%) WSUS
7 8 (4.49%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (3.93%) Podman
9 6 (3.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.81%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (2.81%) ZABBIX
11 4 (2.25%) Argo
11 4 (2.25%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (2.25%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
11 4 (2.25%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.56%) Graylog
12 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 114 (64.04%) Red Hat
2 76 (42.70%) VMware
3 42 (23.60%) Microsoft
4 24 (13.48%) McAfee
5 15 (8.43%) Oracle
6 14 (7.87%) Splunk
7 11 (6.18%) SolarWinds
8 10 (5.62%) Dell
9 8 (4.49%) Citrix
9 8 (4.49%) IBM
9 8 (4.49%) NetApp
10 6 (3.37%) Google
11 5 (2.81%) SaltStack
11 5 (2.81%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.69%) Pure Storage
12 3 (1.69%) Veeam
13 2 (1.12%) D-Link
13 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.12%) Tenable
13 2 (1.12%) Veracode