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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 513 564
Rank change year-on-year -54 +51 -13
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 174 154 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.20% 2.26% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 139 122 258
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +25.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,125 £80,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £83,750 £96,250 £96,042
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% +5.00%

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 5,437 6,809 13,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.89% 15.44% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,018 4,365 10,726
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -42 157 £65,000 -7.14% 63
UK excluding London -44 93 £67,500 +3.85% 52
London -3 74 £60,000 -20.00% 15
South East +4 46 £67,500 +17.39% 15
Work from Home -2 26 £70,000 - 14
North West +14 19 £55,000 -26.54% 6
North of England -39 19 £55,000 -21.43% 14
South West -51 16 £75,000 +4.18% 17
Scotland +7 10 £46,000 +5.14%
East of England -28 1 £70,000 -1.75% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 11 (6.32%) Apache
3 8 (4.60%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.87%) Confluence
5 4 (2.30%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.72%) CMS
6 3 (1.72%) WordPress
7 1 (0.57%) IIS
7 1 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.87%) 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 48 (27.59%) AWS
2 37 (21.26%) Azure
3 13 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (5.75%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.60%) IaaS
6 8 (4.60%) SaaS
7 7 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.02%) GCP
7 7 (4.02%) Serverless
8 6 (3.45%) Datadog
9 5 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.87%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.72%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.72%) GitHub
11 3 (1.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (29.31%) DNS
2 31 (17.82%) SAN
3 30 (17.24%) Firewall
4 25 (14.37%) TCP/IP
5 21 (12.07%) LAN
6 18 (10.34%) HTTP
7 14 (8.05%) Wireshark
8 11 (6.32%) Multicast
8 11 (6.32%) WAN
9 10 (5.75%) iSCSI
9 10 (5.75%) NAS
10 8 (4.60%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.60%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (3.45%) ATM
11 6 (3.45%) DHCP
11 6 (3.45%) tcpdump
12 5 (2.87%) AMQP
13 4 (2.30%) VSAN
14 3 (1.72%) VoIP
15 2 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.75%) MySQL
4 8 (4.60%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.87%) Big Data
5 5 (2.87%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (2.87%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.72%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.57%) Power BI
8 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.57%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (10.34%) Git
2 12 (6.90%) GitLab
3 9 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.60%) JIRA
5 5 (2.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.72%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.72%) 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 58 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.29%) Finance
3 22 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.77%) Banking
5 14 (8.05%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (5.17%) Front Office
8 8 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.45%) Automotive
9 6 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.45%) Spanish Language
10 4 (2.30%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.72%) Military
12 2 (1.15%) Advertising
12 2 (1.15%) Retail
13 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (17.82%) Linux Engineer
2 30 (17.24%) Administrator
3 21 (12.07%) Senior
4 20 (11.49%) Systems Administrator
5 18 (10.34%) Linux Administrator
6 17 (9.77%) Linux Support
7 16 (9.20%) Applications Architect
7 16 (9.20%) Architect
7 16 (9.20%) Support Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Linux Support Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.75%) Lead
10 10 (5.75%) Security Architect
10 10 (5.75%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Developer
12 8 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) 3rd Line Support
13 7 (4.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.20%) Regular Expression
2 14 (8.05%) LDAP
3 12 (6.90%) XMPP
4 10 (5.75%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.45%) REST
6 5 (2.87%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.87%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.87%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.87%) gRPC
6 5 (2.87%) Material-UI
6 5 (2.87%) Middleware
6 5 (2.87%) Node.js
6 5 (2.87%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.87%) React
6 5 (2.87%) Spring
6 5 (2.87%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.87%) Swagger
7 4 (2.30%) JSON
7 4 (2.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.09%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.20%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.62%) PKI
4 14 (8.05%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.60%) Clustering
6 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.87%) Derivative
7 5 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.87%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.87%) Replication
8 4 (2.30%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.30%) Web3
9 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.72%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.57%) Equities
10 1 (0.57%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 174 (100.00%) Linux
2 66 (37.93%) Windows
3 55 (31.61%) Windows Server
4 43 (24.71%) CentOS
5 25 (14.37%) Unix
6 24 (13.79%) Ubuntu
7 13 (7.47%) Debian
8 9 (5.17%) AIX
8 9 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (4.02%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (2.87%) Solaris
10 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (2.30%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.72%) VMS
13 2 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.15%) Rocky
14 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.16%) DevOps
2 44 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.26%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.39%) ITIL
4 32 (18.39%) SIEM
5 28 (16.09%) High Availability
6 25 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (13.79%) Configuration Management
8 23 (13.22%) Containerisation
9 21 (12.07%) Agile
9 21 (12.07%) Validation
10 20 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (10.92%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (8.62%) Observability
14 14 (8.05%) Roadmaps
14 14 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (7.47%) Application Security
15 13 (7.47%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.33%) Python
2 52 (29.89%) Bash
3 29 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 28 (16.09%) SQL
5 14 (8.05%) PHP
6 12 (6.90%) Korn
6 12 (6.90%) Perl
6 12 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.32%) Java
8 6 (3.45%) C++
9 5 (2.87%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.87%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.15%) C
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.69%) DV Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) Degree
4 15 (8.62%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.47%) RHCSA
6 11 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.30%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.30%) RHCE
10 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.72%) CCNA
10 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.72%) MCSE
11 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.57%) CISSP
12 1 (0.57%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) SLA
2 2 (1.15%) NIST
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.57%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (28.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (25.86%) Docker
3 43 (24.71%) Active Directory
4 31 (17.82%) vSphere
5 11 (6.32%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (4.02%) KVM
8 6 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (2.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.15%) Samba
12 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 52 (29.89%) Ansible
3 40 (22.99%) Terraform
4 25 (14.37%) Puppet
5 24 (13.79%) Nagios
6 10 (5.75%) Grafana
7 8 (4.60%) WSUS
8 7 (4.02%) Data Guard
8 7 (4.02%) Podman
9 6 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.87%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (2.87%) ZABBIX
11 4 (2.30%) Argo
11 4 (2.30%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (2.30%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.30%) SCVMM
12 3 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.57%) Graylog
13 1 (0.57%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 117 (67.24%) Red Hat
2 79 (45.40%) VMware
3 37 (21.26%) Microsoft
4 19 (10.92%) McAfee
5 14 (8.05%) Oracle
6 11 (6.32%) SolarWinds
6 11 (6.32%) Splunk
7 10 (5.75%) Dell
8 8 (4.60%) Citrix
8 8 (4.60%) NetApp
9 6 (3.45%) Google
10 5 (2.87%) IBM
10 5 (2.87%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.87%) Symantec
11 4 (2.30%) Mirantis
12 3 (1.72%) Pure Storage
12 3 (1.72%) Veeam
13 2 (1.15%) CyberArk
13 2 (1.15%) D-Link
13 2 (1.15%) Dynatrace