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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 507 571
Rank change year-on-year -58 +64 -61
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 194 180 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.20% 2.63% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 159 136 260
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £96,250 £98,876
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +19.05% +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 6,065 6,843 13,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.22% 14.22% 13.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,571 4,558 10,449
10th Percentile £27,694 £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 £81,250 £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 8 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 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 8 July 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 -61 179 £67,500 -3.57% 48
UK excluding London -34 121 £67,500 +8.00% 41
London -37 69 £62,500 -20.38% 13
South East -12 55 £67,500 +10.66% 12
North of England -36 29 £61,000 -6.15% 12
Work from Home -34 25 £70,000 - 19
North West +7 24 £47,500 -36.56% 8
South West -44 16 £75,000 +20.00% 7
Scotland +14 10 £46,000 - 5
Midlands -27 6 £75,000 +30.43% 2
East Midlands -25 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
East of England -27 4 £56,250 -2.17% 3
Yorkshire -38 3 £97,500 +50.00% 3
North East -45 2 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -18 1 - - 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 (9.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.67%) Apache
3 8 (4.12%) Confluence
4 7 (3.61%) SharePoint
5 6 (3.09%) Apache Spark
6 5 (2.58%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.55%) CMS
7 3 (1.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (5.67%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.35%) AWS
2 42 (21.65%) Azure
3 14 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.70%) GitHub
5 12 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.12%) IaaS
7 8 (4.12%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.12%) Serverless
8 7 (3.61%) Azure Stack
8 7 (3.61%) GCP
8 7 (3.61%) SaaS
9 6 (3.09%) Datadog
10 5 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.06%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.55%) CloudFront
12 3 (1.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 56 (28.87%) DNS
2 37 (19.07%) Firewall
3 33 (17.01%) SAN
4 22 (11.34%) TCP/IP
5 19 (9.79%) LAN
6 16 (8.25%) HTTP
7 14 (7.22%) Wireshark
8 11 (5.67%) Remote Desktop
9 10 (5.15%) iSCSI
9 10 (5.15%) WAN
10 9 (4.64%) NAS
11 8 (4.12%) NetScaler
12 6 (3.09%) AMQP
12 6 (3.09%) ATM
12 6 (3.09%) Multicast
12 6 (3.09%) tcpdump
13 5 (2.58%) DHCP
14 4 (2.06%) VSAN
15 3 (1.55%) Kerberos
15 3 (1.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.67%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.12%) Hadoop
4 8 (4.12%) MySQL
5 6 (3.09%) Big Data
5 6 (3.09%) Cloudera CDH
5 6 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.52%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 31 (15.98%) Git
2 23 (11.86%) GitLab
3 17 (8.76%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (6.70%) JIRA
6 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.52%) git-flow
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) TestRail
General
1 74 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.07%) Finance
3 29 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.34%) Banking
5 16 (8.25%) Aerospace
6 13 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.09%) Automotive
8 6 (3.09%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.06%) Front Office
10 4 (2.06%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Military
12 2 (1.03%) Advertising
12 2 (1.03%) Retail
12 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.52%) Law
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (15.98%) Senior
2 28 (14.43%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (12.37%) Administrator
4 20 (10.31%) Applications Architect
4 20 (10.31%) Architect
4 20 (10.31%) Systems Administrator
5 17 (8.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.73%) Support Engineer
7 14 (7.22%) Security Architect
8 12 (6.19%) Lead
8 12 (6.19%) Linux Support
8 12 (6.19%) Linux Support Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) DBA
9 11 (5.67%) Linux Administrator
9 11 (5.67%) Oracle DBA
9 11 (5.67%) Senior DBA
9 11 (5.67%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 10 (5.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.15%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.86%) Regular Expression
2 22 (11.34%) LDAP
3 19 (9.79%) XMPP
4 9 (4.64%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.61%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.61%) JSON
5 7 (3.61%) JSON Schema
5 7 (3.61%) XML
6 6 (3.09%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.09%) gRPC
6 6 (3.09%) Material-UI
6 6 (3.09%) Node.js
6 6 (3.09%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.09%) React
6 6 (3.09%) REST
6 6 (3.09%) Spring
6 6 (3.09%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.09%) Swagger
7 5 (2.58%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.34%) Data Centre
3 18 (9.28%) PKI
4 14 (7.22%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.58%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.58%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.06%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.06%) Replication
7 4 (2.06%) Web3
8 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 194 (100.00%) Linux
2 76 (39.18%) Windows
3 66 (34.02%) Windows Server
4 52 (26.80%) CentOS
5 27 (13.92%) Ubuntu
6 26 (13.40%) Unix
7 16 (8.25%) AIX
8 15 (7.73%) Debian
9 12 (6.19%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (5.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (2.58%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.58%) Rocky
12 4 (2.06%) CoreOS
12 4 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.55%) Solaris
13 3 (1.55%) VMS
14 2 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.96%) DevOps
2 49 (25.26%) CI/CD
3 46 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (21.65%) SIEM
5 36 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (18.04%) ITIL
7 34 (17.53%) High Availability
8 31 (15.98%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (14.95%) Configuration Management
10 28 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (13.40%) Validation
13 24 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (11.86%) Agile
14 23 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (10.82%) Containerisation
17 19 (9.79%) Observability
18 17 (8.76%) Antivirus Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.41%) Python
2 54 (27.84%) Bash
3 33 (17.01%) SQL
4 32 (16.49%) PowerShell
5 20 (10.31%) Shell Script
6 17 (8.76%) Korn
7 16 (8.25%) Java
8 15 (7.73%) PHP
9 11 (5.67%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.12%) JavaScript
10 8 (4.12%) Perl
11 2 (1.03%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 78 (40.21%) Security Cleared
2 54 (27.84%) DV Cleared
3 27 (13.92%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.86%) Degree
5 12 (6.19%) RHCSA
6 10 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.06%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.06%) RHCE
10 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.55%) CCNA
10 3 (1.55%) CCSP
10 3 (1.55%) CISM
10 3 (1.55%) CISSP
10 3 (1.55%) MCSE
11 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.03%) Dell Certification
11 2 (1.03%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.58%) SLA
2 4 (2.06%) NIST
3 3 (1.55%) GDPR
3 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (27.84%) Active Directory
2 52 (26.80%) Docker
3 41 (21.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (19.59%) vSphere
5 12 (6.19%) Hyper-V
5 12 (6.19%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (4.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (3.61%) KVM
8 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.03%) Samba
10 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 66 (34.02%) Kubernetes
2 58 (29.90%) Ansible
3 53 (27.32%) Terraform
4 29 (14.95%) Nagios
5 28 (14.43%) Puppet
6 12 (6.19%) Data Guard
7 11 (5.67%) Oracle RMAN
8 9 (4.64%) Grafana
8 9 (4.64%) WSUS
9 7 (3.61%) Podman
9 7 (3.61%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.61%) ZABBIX
10 5 (2.58%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (2.58%) Prometheus
11 4 (2.06%) Argo
11 4 (2.06%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (2.06%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.06%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.03%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 117 (60.31%) Red Hat
2 75 (38.66%) VMware
3 43 (22.16%) Microsoft
4 26 (13.40%) McAfee
5 17 (8.76%) Oracle
6 14 (7.22%) Splunk
7 11 (5.67%) IBM
7 11 (5.67%) NetApp
8 10 (5.15%) Dell
8 10 (5.15%) SolarWinds
9 8 (4.12%) Citrix
10 7 (3.61%) Google
11 6 (3.09%) SaltStack
11 6 (3.09%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.58%) Veeam
13 3 (1.55%) CyberArk
13 3 (1.55%) Ivanti
13 3 (1.55%) Qualys
13 3 (1.55%) Rapid7
13 3 (1.55%) Veracode