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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 482 527
Rank change year-on-year -51 +45 -67
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 128 197 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.46% 2.73% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 89 113 224
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.59% -5.42%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £125,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +6.80%

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 5,209 7,223 11,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.56% 15.01% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,803 4,178 9,545
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,230
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,500
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 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.95% +11.76% -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 23 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 23 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 -44 116 £57,500 -17.27% 36
London +24 76 £75,000 -9.09% 10
UK excluding London -57 44 £51,250 -14.58% 31
Work from Home +16 31 £85,000 +21.43% 12
South East -5 19 £50,000 -16.67% 21
South West -25 10 £57,500 -20.13% 3
North West +11 8 £55,000 +18.92% 2
North of England -25 8 £55,000 - 3
Scotland -14 5 £65,000 +48.57% 3
East of England -9 2 £56,250 -2.17% 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 17 (13.28%) Tomcat
2 13 (10.16%) WebSphere
3 11 (8.59%) Apache
3 11 (8.59%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (5.47%) SharePoint
5 6 (4.69%) Confluence
6 5 (3.91%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.91%) IIS
7 3 (2.34%) CMS
7 3 (2.34%) WordPress
8 2 (1.56%) nginx
9 1 (0.78%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.38%) AWS
2 25 (19.53%) Azure
3 18 (14.06%) OpenShift
4 13 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (8.59%) SaaS
7 10 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (7.81%) Serverless
8 6 (4.69%) GCP
9 5 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.91%) Route 53
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (3.13%) IaaS
10 4 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.34%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (2.34%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.56%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.88%) DNS
2 18 (14.06%) TCP/IP
3 16 (12.50%) Multicast
4 14 (10.94%) LAN
5 12 (9.38%) SAN
5 12 (9.38%) SSL
6 11 (8.59%) WAN
7 10 (7.81%) HTTP
8 9 (7.03%) Firewall
9 8 (6.25%) DHCP
10 7 (5.47%) VSAN
11 5 (3.91%) AMQP
12 4 (3.13%) ATM
12 4 (3.13%) tcpdump
12 4 (3.13%) Wireshark
13 3 (2.34%) SNMP
14 2 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
14 2 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
14 2 (1.56%) NAS
14 2 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.16%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.38%) DB2
4 7 (5.47%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.69%) Big Data
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.91%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.91%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.91%) MySQL
7 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.34%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.78%) Power BI
9 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.78%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.78%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (10.16%) Git
2 11 (8.59%) GitLab
3 10 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.25%) JIRA
5 6 (4.69%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.34%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.34%) TestRail
8 1 (0.78%) Ant
8 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.78%) Maven
8 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (34.38%) Finance
2 30 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.06%) Banking
4 13 (10.16%) Front Office
5 9 (7.03%) Aerospace
5 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.47%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.13%) Automotive
10 3 (2.34%) Advertising
10 3 (2.34%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Electronics
11 2 (1.56%) Military
12 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (23.44%) Administrator
1 30 (23.44%) Linux Support
2 28 (21.88%) Linux Engineer
3 22 (17.19%) Linux Administrator
4 21 (16.41%) Support Engineer
5 18 (14.06%) Linux Support Engineer
6 13 (10.16%) C++ Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Infrastructure Support
7 12 (9.38%) Applications Support
7 12 (9.38%) Unix Support
8 11 (8.59%) Senior
8 11 (8.59%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (6.25%) Linux Specialist
9 8 (6.25%) Support Specialist
10 7 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support
11 6 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.16%) LDAP
2 12 (9.38%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (8.59%) LAPP Stack
3 11 (8.59%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (6.25%) Middleware
5 7 (5.47%) Kafka
6 6 (4.69%) REST
7 5 (3.91%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.91%) gRPC
7 5 (3.91%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.91%) Node.js
7 5 (3.91%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.91%) React
7 5 (3.91%) Spring
7 5 (3.91%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.91%) Swagger
8 4 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.34%) LAMP
9 3 (2.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.16%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (9.38%) Derivative
2 12 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.03%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.25%) Clustering
5 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.69%) PKI
6 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.13%) Replication
6 4 (3.13%) Video on Demand
6 4 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.56%) FPGA
8 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Equities
9 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 128 (100.00%) Linux
2 42 (32.81%) Windows
3 41 (32.03%) CentOS
4 27 (21.09%) Unix
5 24 (18.75%) Windows Server
6 17 (13.28%) Ubuntu
7 12 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (8.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (7.03%) Debian
10 6 (4.69%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.91%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (3.13%) AIX
12 4 (3.13%) CoreOS
12 4 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (22.66%) ITIL
3 23 (17.97%) DevOps
4 21 (16.41%) Configuration Management
4 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (15.63%) Agile
6 19 (14.84%) Change Management
7 16 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 16 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 14 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (10.16%) Low Latency
10 12 (9.38%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.38%) Release Management
10 12 (9.38%) SOA
10 12 (9.38%) Systems Analysis
10 12 (9.38%) Unit Testing
10 12 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (8.59%) Migration
12 10 (7.81%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 65 (50.78%) Python
2 42 (32.81%) Bash
3 24 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 17 (13.28%) SQL
5 16 (12.50%) Perl
6 13 (10.16%) C++
7 11 (8.59%) PHP
8 10 (7.81%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.47%) Java
10 6 (4.69%) Korn
11 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
12 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.78%) Groovy
13 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.84%) Degree
3 18 (14.06%) DV Cleared
4 17 (13.28%) AWS Certification
5 16 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.91%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.34%) RHCE
9 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.28%) SLA
2 2 (1.56%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 36 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (17.97%) Docker
3 21 (16.41%) Active Directory
4 9 (7.03%) vSphere
5 6 (4.69%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (3.13%) KVM
8 3 (2.34%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.78%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.78%) NFS
9 1 (0.78%) Postfix
9 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (33.59%) Ansible
2 32 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (14.84%) Terraform
4 15 (11.72%) Puppet
5 12 (9.38%) Nagios
6 9 (7.03%) Grafana
7 6 (4.69%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (4.69%) SCVMM
7 6 (4.69%) WSUS
8 5 (3.91%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.91%) Podman
8 5 (3.91%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.13%) Prometheus
9 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (2.34%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.78%) Graylog
12 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 83 (64.84%) Red Hat
2 43 (33.59%) VMware
3 16 (12.50%) Oracle
4 15 (11.72%) IBM
5 12 (9.38%) McAfee
6 9 (7.03%) Splunk
7 8 (6.25%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.91%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.91%) Google
8 5 (3.91%) SaltStack
8 5 (3.91%) Symantec
9 4 (3.13%) Cisco
10 3 (2.34%) Dell
10 3 (2.34%) Pure Storage
10 3 (2.34%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.56%) Commvault
11 2 (1.56%) HP
11 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.56%) Mirantis
12 1 (0.78%) Sybase