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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 497 517
Rank change year-on-year -73 +20 -6
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 205 184 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.27% 2.66% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 161 137 256
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -8.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £100,487
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% +15.24% +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 6,262 6,930 11,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 14.05% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,724 4,629 8,205
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.97% -13.33% -

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 July 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 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 -64 192 £67,500 -3.57% 54
UK excluding London -48 133 £67,500 +11.57% 40
London -34 70 £67,500 -15.63% 24
South East -19 56 £67,500 +10.66% 10
North of England -22 37 £97,500 +50.00% 9
North West +3 27 £47,500 -36.56% 7
Work from Home -61 24 £70,000 - 18
South West -45 18 £75,000 +20.00% 11
Scotland +16 11 £54,726 +28.77% 3
Midlands -40 6 £75,000 +30.43% 5
East Midlands -28 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
East of England -28 5 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Yorkshire -36 5 £97,500 +50.00% 1
North East -48 5 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -32 1 - - 4

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 17 (8.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.39%) Apache
2 9 (4.39%) Confluence
3 8 (3.90%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.44%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.95%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.98%) JBoss
7 1 (0.49%) CMS
7 1 (0.49%) nginx
7 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (5.85%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.22%) AWS
2 46 (22.44%) Azure
3 20 (9.76%) GitHub
4 15 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.37%) OpenShift
6 9 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.90%) IaaS
8 7 (3.41%) Azure Stack
8 7 (3.41%) Datadog
9 6 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.93%) Serverless
10 5 (2.44%) GCP
11 4 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.95%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.95%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.95%) SaaS
11 4 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (25.85%) DNS
2 38 (18.54%) Firewall
3 31 (15.12%) SAN
4 24 (11.71%) TCP/IP
5 21 (10.24%) LAN
6 14 (6.83%) Wireshark
7 13 (6.34%) HTTP
8 12 (5.85%) WAN
9 11 (5.37%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (4.88%) iSCSI
11 9 (4.39%) NAS
12 8 (3.90%) NetScaler
13 6 (2.93%) ATM
13 6 (2.93%) DHCP
13 6 (2.93%) Multicast
13 6 (2.93%) tcpdump
14 5 (2.44%) VSAN
15 4 (1.95%) AMQP
15 4 (1.95%) Kerberos
16 3 (1.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.34%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.88%) MySQL
3 10 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.93%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.95%) Big Data
6 4 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Git
2 29 (14.15%) GitLab
3 26 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 21 (10.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (6.83%) JIRA
6 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.98%) Maven
8 1 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.49%) git-flow
8 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.56%) Finance
3 35 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.73%) Banking
5 19 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.80%) Aerospace
7 13 (6.34%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.93%) Automotive
9 6 (2.93%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.95%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.46%) Front Office
12 3 (1.46%) Military
12 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.98%) Advertising
13 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.49%) Law
14 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (16.10%) Senior
2 30 (14.63%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (13.66%) Administrator
4 24 (11.71%) Systems Administrator
5 22 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.76%) Applications Architect
6 20 (9.76%) Architect
7 17 (8.29%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.29%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (7.80%) Lead
9 14 (6.83%) Security Architect
10 13 (6.34%) DBA
11 12 (5.85%) Linux Administrator
11 12 (5.85%) Oracle DBA
11 12 (5.85%) Senior DBA
11 12 (5.85%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 11 (5.37%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 10 (4.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 10 (4.88%) Support Engineer
14 9 (4.39%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.22%) LDAP
1 23 (11.22%) Regular Expression
2 19 (9.27%) XMPP
3 9 (4.39%) WebSockets
4 8 (3.90%) JSON
5 7 (3.41%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.41%) JSON Schema
5 7 (3.41%) XML
6 5 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.44%) React
7 4 (1.95%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.95%) gRPC
7 4 (1.95%) Material-UI
7 4 (1.95%) Node.js
7 4 (1.95%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.95%) REST
7 4 (1.95%) Spring
7 4 (1.95%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.95%) Swagger
7 4 (1.95%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.22%) Data Centre
3 17 (8.29%) PKI
4 14 (6.83%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.90%) Social Media
6 6 (2.93%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.93%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.44%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.44%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.44%) Replication
7 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.95%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.95%) Web3
9 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.46%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.98%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 205 (100.00%) Linux
2 79 (38.54%) Windows
3 68 (33.17%) Windows Server
4 55 (26.83%) CentOS
5 27 (13.17%) Unix
6 25 (12.20%) Ubuntu
7 19 (9.27%) AIX
8 16 (7.80%) Debian
9 13 (6.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (5.85%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (3.90%) Rocky
12 5 (2.44%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.44%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.46%) Solaris
13 3 (1.46%) VMS
14 2 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (36.10%) DevOps
2 59 (28.78%) CI/CD
3 41 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (20.00%) ITIL
4 40 (19.51%) High Availability
4 40 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (19.51%) SIEM
5 38 (18.54%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (15.61%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (15.12%) Configuration Management
8 31 (15.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 30 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 25 (12.20%) Validation
11 24 (11.71%) Agile
12 21 (10.24%) Microservices
13 20 (9.76%) Observability
13 20 (9.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (29.76%) Python
2 58 (28.29%) Bash
3 35 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 35 (17.07%) SQL
4 22 (10.73%) Shell Script
5 18 (8.78%) Korn
6 17 (8.29%) Java
7 12 (5.85%) PL/SQL
8 10 (4.88%) PHP
9 7 (3.41%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.95%) Perl
11 2 (0.98%) C
12 1 (0.49%) C#
12 1 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (41.95%) Security Cleared
2 60 (29.27%) DV Cleared
3 33 (16.10%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.73%) Degree
5 12 (5.85%) RHCSA
6 11 (5.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.95%) CCSP
9 4 (1.95%) CISM
9 4 (1.95%) CISSP
9 4 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.95%) Postgraduate
9 4 (1.95%) RHCE
10 3 (1.46%) CCNA
10 3 (1.46%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.46%) MCSA
10 3 (1.46%) MCSE
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.44%) NIST
1 5 (2.44%) SLA
2 4 (1.95%) GDPR
2 4 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (30.24%) Docker
2 56 (27.32%) Active Directory
3 39 (19.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (17.56%) vSphere
5 14 (6.83%) Hyper-V
6 13 (6.34%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (3.41%) KVM
10 5 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.98%) Samba
12 2 (0.98%) Xen
13 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (36.10%) Kubernetes
2 68 (33.17%) Ansible
3 59 (28.78%) Terraform
4 31 (15.12%) Nagios
5 30 (14.63%) Puppet
6 14 (6.83%) Data Guard
7 12 (5.85%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (5.37%) ZABBIX
9 8 (3.90%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (3.90%) WSUS
10 7 (3.41%) Grafana
10 7 (3.41%) Podman
11 5 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.44%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.44%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.44%) SCVMM
12 4 (1.95%) Argo
13 2 (0.98%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.98%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 122 (59.51%) Red Hat
2 73 (35.61%) VMware
3 46 (22.44%) Microsoft
4 25 (12.20%) McAfee
5 22 (10.73%) Oracle
6 14 (6.83%) Splunk
7 12 (5.85%) IBM
7 12 (5.85%) NetApp
8 11 (5.37%) Dell
9 10 (4.88%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.90%) Citrix
11 7 (3.41%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.44%) Google
12 5 (2.44%) Veeam
13 4 (1.95%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.95%) Ivanti
13 4 (1.95%) Qualys
13 4 (1.95%) Rapid7
13 4 (1.95%) SaltStack
13 4 (1.95%) Tenable