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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 513 579
Rank change year-on-year -53 +66 -59
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 184 174 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.11% 2.60% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 152 130 264
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -13.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +19.05% +2.94%

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 5,918 6,685 13,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.17% 14.46% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,449 4,397 10,636
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £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 29 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 29 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 -53 169 £67,500 -3.57% 45
UK excluding London -55 111 £67,500 +8.00% 35
London -16 69 £62,500 -19.35% 12
South East -13 52 £67,500 +11.57% 10
Work from Home -24 25 £70,000 - 11
North of England -57 25 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North West +14 22 £43,750 -41.56% 6
South West -57 16 £75,000 +20.00% 9
Scotland +22 10 £46,000 -
East Midlands -18 5 £75,000 +30.43% 2
Midlands -37 5 £75,000 +30.43% 3
East of England -19 2 £56,250 -2.17% 4
Yorkshire -41 2 £97,500 +50.00% 2
North East -50 1 £97,500 +77.27% 1
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 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.98%) Apache
3 8 (4.35%) Confluence
4 7 (3.80%) SharePoint
5 6 (3.26%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.17%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.63%) CMS
7 3 (1.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.43%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.72%) AWS
2 42 (22.83%) Azure
3 13 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (4.89%) GitHub
6 8 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.35%) IaaS
6 8 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.35%) Serverless
7 7 (3.80%) Azure Stack
7 7 (3.80%) GCP
7 7 (3.80%) SaaS
8 6 (3.26%) Datadog
9 5 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (1.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (29.89%) DNS
2 35 (19.02%) Firewall
3 31 (16.85%) SAN
4 23 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 20 (10.87%) LAN
6 16 (8.70%) HTTP
7 14 (7.61%) Wireshark
8 11 (5.98%) WAN
9 10 (5.43%) iSCSI
9 10 (5.43%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (4.89%) NAS
11 8 (4.35%) NetScaler
12 6 (3.26%) AMQP
12 6 (3.26%) ATM
12 6 (3.26%) Multicast
12 6 (3.26%) tcpdump
13 5 (2.72%) DHCP
14 4 (2.17%) VSAN
15 3 (1.63%) Kerberos
15 3 (1.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.43%) Oracle Database
2 10 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.89%) MySQL
4 8 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.26%) Big Data
6 6 (3.26%) Cloudera CDH
6 6 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.54%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.54%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 27 (14.67%) Git
2 19 (10.33%) GitLab
3 13 (7.07%) JIRA
4 12 (6.52%) Jenkins
5 10 (5.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) git-flow
7 1 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) TestRail
General
1 66 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.57%) Finance
3 29 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.41%) Banking
5 15 (8.15%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.26%) Automotive
9 6 (3.26%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.17%) Front Office
11 4 (2.17%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.63%) Military
13 2 (1.09%) Advertising
13 2 (1.09%) Retail
13 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (15.22%) Senior
2 27 (14.67%) Linux Engineer
3 25 (13.59%) Administrator
4 20 (10.87%) Applications Architect
4 20 (10.87%) Architect
4 20 (10.87%) Systems Administrator
5 14 (7.61%) Security Architect
5 14 (7.61%) Support Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.52%) Lead
7 12 (6.52%) Linux Administrator
7 12 (6.52%) Linux Support
7 12 (6.52%) Linux Support Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) DBA
9 10 (5.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.43%) Oracle DBA
9 10 (5.43%) Senior DBA
9 10 (5.43%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 9 (4.89%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.96%) Regular Expression
2 21 (11.41%) LDAP
3 18 (9.78%) XMPP
4 9 (4.89%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.80%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.80%) REST
6 6 (3.26%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.26%) gRPC
6 6 (3.26%) JSON
6 6 (3.26%) JSON Schema
6 6 (3.26%) Material-UI
6 6 (3.26%) Node.js
6 6 (3.26%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.26%) React
6 6 (3.26%) Spring
6 6 (3.26%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.26%) Swagger
6 6 (3.26%) XML
7 5 (2.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.96%) Data Centre
3 17 (9.24%) PKI
4 14 (7.61%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.72%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.72%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.17%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.17%) Web3
8 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.63%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.63%) Replication
9 2 (1.09%) Clustering
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 184 (100.00%) Linux
2 73 (39.67%) Windows
3 63 (34.24%) Windows Server
4 46 (25.00%) CentOS
5 26 (14.13%) Ubuntu
6 25 (13.59%) Unix
7 14 (7.61%) AIX
8 13 (7.07%) Debian
9 11 (5.98%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (5.98%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.72%) OpenVMS
11 4 (2.17%) CoreOS
11 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.63%) Solaris
12 3 (1.63%) VMS
13 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.09%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.98%) DevOps
2 46 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (23.37%) CI/CD
4 41 (22.28%) SIEM
5 33 (17.93%) High Availability
5 33 (17.93%) ITIL
6 32 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (15.22%) Configuration Management
8 27 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (14.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (13.59%) Validation
11 23 (12.50%) Agile
11 23 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (11.41%) Containerisation
13 20 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (9.78%) Observability
14 18 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (9.24%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (31.52%) Python
2 53 (28.80%) Bash
3 33 (17.93%) SQL
4 30 (16.30%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.33%) Shell Script
6 17 (9.24%) Korn
7 16 (8.70%) Java
8 15 (8.15%) PHP
9 10 (5.43%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.35%) JavaScript
10 8 (4.35%) Perl
11 2 (1.09%) C
12 1 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 69 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 49 (26.63%) DV Cleared
3 24 (13.04%) Degree
4 20 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.52%) RHCSA
6 10 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.17%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.17%) RHCE
10 3 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.63%) CCNA
10 3 (1.63%) CCSP
10 3 (1.63%) CISM
10 3 (1.63%) CISSP
10 3 (1.63%) MCSE
11 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.09%) Dell Certification
11 2 (1.09%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) SLA
2 4 (2.17%) NIST
3 3 (1.63%) GDPR
3 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (27.72%) Active Directory
2 47 (25.54%) Docker
3 42 (22.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (20.11%) vSphere
5 12 (6.52%) Hyper-V
6 11 (5.98%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (4.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (3.80%) KVM
9 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.09%) Samba
11 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (33.15%) Kubernetes
2 51 (27.72%) Ansible
3 48 (26.09%) Terraform
4 28 (15.22%) Nagios
5 27 (14.67%) Puppet
6 11 (5.98%) Data Guard
7 10 (5.43%) Oracle RMAN
8 9 (4.89%) WSUS
9 8 (4.35%) Grafana
10 7 (3.80%) Podman
10 7 (3.80%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.72%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.72%) ZABBIX
12 4 (2.17%) Argo
12 4 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (2.17%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
12 4 (2.17%) SCVMM
13 1 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 115 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 75 (40.76%) VMware
3 42 (22.83%) Microsoft
4 25 (13.59%) McAfee
5 17 (9.24%) Oracle
6 14 (7.61%) Splunk
7 10 (5.43%) Dell
7 10 (5.43%) IBM
7 10 (5.43%) SolarWinds
8 8 (4.35%) Citrix
8 8 (4.35%) NetApp
9 7 (3.80%) Google
10 6 (3.26%) SaltStack
10 6 (3.26%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.63%) Ivanti
11 3 (1.63%) Qualys
11 3 (1.63%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.63%) Veeam
11 3 (1.63%) Veracode