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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 499 522
Rank change year-on-year -46 +23 -59
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 125 198 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.48% 2.61% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 85 110 230
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,585 £42,425
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £80,313
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 5,038 7,597 11,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.70% 15.09% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,679 4,230 9,458
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £47,307 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.62% +11.31% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -33 114 £57,500 -11.54% 39
London +38 77 £75,000 -3.23% 20
UK excluding London -55 39 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Work from Home +20 34 £85,000 +30.77% 19
South East -2 15 £48,750 -15.22% 8
South West -24 9 £60,000 -16.66% 7
North West +24 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
North of England -12 8 £55,000 - 5
East of England +3 4 £42,500 -26.09%
Scotland -23 3 £65,000 +48.57% 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 18 (14.40%) Tomcat
2 14 (11.20%) WebSphere
3 12 (9.60%) Apache
3 12 (9.60%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (4.80%) SharePoint
5 5 (4.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (4.00%) Confluence
5 5 (4.00%) IIS
6 3 (2.40%) CMS
6 3 (2.40%) WordPress
7 2 (1.60%) nginx
8 1 (0.80%) JBoss
8 1 (0.80%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.80%) AWS
2 19 (15.20%) Azure
3 18 (14.40%) OpenShift
4 13 (10.40%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.00%) SaaS
6 10 (8.00%) Serverless
7 6 (4.80%) GCP
8 5 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.00%) Route 53
9 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (3.20%) Cohesity
9 4 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.40%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (2.40%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (20.80%) DNS
2 16 (12.80%) TCP/IP
3 14 (11.20%) LAN
3 14 (11.20%) Multicast
4 13 (10.40%) SAN
4 13 (10.40%) SSL
5 11 (8.80%) WAN
6 9 (7.20%) Firewall
6 9 (7.20%) HTTP
7 8 (6.40%) DHCP
8 7 (5.60%) VSAN
9 5 (4.00%) AMQP
10 3 (2.40%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.60%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.60%) NAS
11 2 (1.60%) SNMP
11 2 (1.60%) tcpdump
11 2 (1.60%) VoIP
11 2 (1.60%) VPN
11 2 (1.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.20%) DB2
2 14 (11.20%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.60%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.80%) Big Data
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.00%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.00%) MySQL
6 4 (3.20%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.40%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.80%) Power BI
8 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.80%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.80%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Git
2 10 (8.00%) GitLab
2 10 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.80%) JIRA
4 5 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (2.40%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.40%) TestRail
6 1 (0.80%) Ant
6 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.80%) Maven
6 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (37.60%) Finance
2 25 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.00%) Banking
4 13 (10.40%) Front Office
5 8 (6.40%) Investment Banking
5 8 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Aerospace
7 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Advertising
10 2 (1.60%) Automotive
10 2 (1.60%) Electronics
10 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.60%) Military
11 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.80%) Retail
11 1 (0.80%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (25.60%) Administrator
1 32 (25.60%) Linux Support
2 29 (23.20%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (18.40%) Linux Administrator
4 22 (17.60%) Support Engineer
5 19 (15.20%) Linux Support Engineer
6 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure Support
7 13 (10.40%) Applications Support
7 13 (10.40%) C++ Developer
7 13 (10.40%) Developer
7 13 (10.40%) Unix Support
8 12 (9.60%) Systems Administrator
9 9 (7.20%) Senior
10 8 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Linux Specialist
10 8 (6.40%) Support Specialist
11 7 (5.60%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 6 (4.80%) DBA
13 5 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support
13 5 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) LDAP
2 12 (9.60%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (9.60%) LAPP Stack
2 12 (9.60%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (6.40%) Middleware
4 7 (5.60%) Kafka
5 6 (4.80%) REST
6 5 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.00%) gRPC
6 5 (4.00%) Material-UI
6 5 (4.00%) Node.js
6 5 (4.00%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (4.00%) React
6 5 (4.00%) Spring
6 5 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.00%) Swagger
7 4 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.40%) LAMP
8 3 (2.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (9.60%) Derivative
2 12 (9.60%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.20%) Clustering
3 9 (7.20%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.00%) PKI
4 5 (4.00%) Replication
5 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.20%) Video on Demand
5 4 (3.20%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.60%) FPGA
8 1 (0.80%) Equities
8 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 125 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (32.80%) Windows
3 39 (31.20%) CentOS
4 30 (24.00%) Unix
5 21 (16.80%) Windows Server
6 15 (12.00%) Ubuntu
7 12 (9.60%) Debian
8 11 (8.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (8.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (5.60%) Solaris
10 5 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.20%) AIX
11 4 (3.20%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.20%) ITIL
1 29 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (16.00%) Change Management
2 20 (16.00%) DevOps
3 18 (14.40%) Agile
4 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (12.80%) Configuration Management
5 16 (12.80%) Containerisation
6 14 (11.20%) Low Latency
7 13 (10.40%) Release Management
7 13 (10.40%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (9.60%) Concurrent Programming
8 12 (9.60%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (9.60%) SOA
8 12 (9.60%) Systems Analysis
8 12 (9.60%) Unit Testing
9 11 (8.80%) CI/CD
10 10 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (52.80%) Python
2 43 (34.40%) Bash
3 20 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 15 (12.00%) Perl
4 15 (12.00%) SQL
5 14 (11.20%) C++
6 9 (7.20%) PHP
6 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
7 8 (6.40%) Java
8 7 (5.60%) Korn
9 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.80%) C
11 1 (0.80%) C#
11 1 (0.80%) Groovy
11 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) Degree
3 18 (14.40%) AWS Certification
4 17 (13.60%) DV Cleared
4 17 (13.60%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.00%) RHCSA
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.40%) RHCE
8 1 (0.80%) CCNA
8 1 (0.80%) CCNP
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.60%) SLA
2 2 (1.60%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.60%) QA
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.80%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (27.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (15.20%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.20%) Docker
3 8 (6.40%) vSphere
4 6 (4.80%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.60%) KVM
7 2 (1.60%) NFS
7 2 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.80%) pfSense
8 1 (0.80%) Postfix
8 1 (0.80%) Samba
8 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (34.40%) Ansible
2 26 (20.80%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.60%) Terraform
4 14 (11.20%) Puppet
5 10 (8.00%) Nagios
6 9 (7.20%) Grafana
7 6 (4.80%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (4.80%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.80%) SCVMM
8 5 (4.00%) WSUS
9 4 (3.20%) Data Guard
9 4 (3.20%) Podman
9 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
9 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.80%) Graylog
11 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (64.00%) Red Hat
2 40 (32.00%) VMware
3 16 (12.80%) Oracle
4 15 (12.00%) IBM
5 11 (8.80%) McAfee
6 9 (7.20%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.40%) Splunk
8 5 (4.00%) Atlassian
8 5 (4.00%) Cisco
8 5 (4.00%) Google
8 5 (4.00%) SaltStack
8 5 (4.00%) Symantec
9 4 (3.20%) NetApp
10 3 (2.40%) Commvault
10 3 (2.40%) Dell
10 3 (2.40%) Pure Storage
10 3 (2.40%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.60%) HP
11 2 (1.60%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.60%) Mirantis