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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 499 434
Rank change year-on-year -11 -65 +18
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 137 212 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.39% 0.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.77% 2.61% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 89 121 235
10th Percentile £42,450 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £101,500
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 4,938 8,128 8,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.31% 14.99% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,665 4,610 6,918
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,720 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £72,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.48% +2.22% -

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 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 12 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 6 January 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 +4 129 £62,500 -3.85% 61
London +67 83 £85,000 +3.03% 16
Work from Home +39 46 £85,000 +47.83% 37
UK excluding London -51 46 £50,000 -13.04% 53
South East +5 16 £50,000 +11.11% 19
East of England +24 12 £43,000 -26.81% 8
South West -15 8 £55,000 -23.60% 9
North West +25 7 £60,000 +13.78% 3
North of England +6 7 £60,000 -8.35% 9
Scotland -11 3 £53,750 +22.86% 3
Midlands +4 1 - - 4
East Midlands -8 1 - - 2

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 22 (16.06%) Tomcat
2 19 (13.87%) WebSphere
3 16 (11.68%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (6.57%) Apache
5 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (3.65%) Confluence
6 5 (3.65%) IIS
7 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
7 3 (2.19%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.46%) JBoss
8 2 (1.46%) nginx
8 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.46%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 54 (39.42%) AWS
2 22 (16.06%) Azure
3 17 (12.41%) OpenShift
4 12 (8.76%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (8.03%) Cohesity
6 10 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.30%) GitHub
6 10 (7.30%) Serverless
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.84%) SaaS
8 7 (5.11%) Route 53
9 6 (4.38%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.38%) GCP
9 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.46%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.14%) Firewall
2 17 (12.41%) SSL
3 15 (10.95%) DNS
3 15 (10.95%) SAN
4 14 (10.22%) LAN
4 14 (10.22%) TCP/IP
5 13 (9.49%) Multicast
5 13 (9.49%) WAN
6 7 (5.11%) VSAN
7 6 (4.38%) DHCP
7 6 (4.38%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (2.92%) HTTP
8 4 (2.92%) iSCSI
8 4 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.19%) AMQP
9 3 (2.19%) Skype
9 3 (2.19%) VPN
10 2 (1.46%) PBX
10 2 (1.46%) SNMP
10 2 (1.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.79%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (16.06%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.14%) DB2
4 8 (5.84%) MySQL
5 7 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.65%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.92%) Big Data
7 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.19%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.46%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.73%) Power BI
10 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (13.14%) Git
2 16 (11.68%) GitLab
3 10 (7.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.11%) JIRA
5 6 (4.38%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.46%) Ant
7 2 (1.46%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.46%) Maven
7 2 (1.46%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.46%) TestRail
General
1 55 (40.15%) Finance
2 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.06%) Banking
4 12 (8.76%) Front Office
5 10 (7.30%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Advertising
8 4 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Electronics
9 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.46%) Military
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (27.01%) Linux Engineer
2 33 (24.09%) Administrator
3 32 (23.36%) Linux Support
4 25 (18.25%) Linux Administrator
5 20 (14.60%) Support Engineer
6 17 (12.41%) Applications Support
6 17 (12.41%) Infrastructure Support
6 17 (12.41%) Linux Support Engineer
7 15 (10.95%) Unix Support
8 12 (8.76%) C++ Developer
8 12 (8.76%) Developer
8 12 (8.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (7.30%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 9 (6.57%) Cisco Engineer
11 9 (6.57%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.57%) Linux Specialist
11 9 (6.57%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 9 (6.57%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.14%) LDAP
2 16 (11.68%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (11.68%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (8.76%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.84%) Kafka
5 7 (5.11%) Middleware
6 4 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.19%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.19%) gRPC
7 3 (2.19%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.19%) Node.js
7 3 (2.19%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.19%) React
7 3 (2.19%) REST
7 3 (2.19%) Spring
7 3 (2.19%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.19%) Swagger
8 2 (1.46%) LAMP
9 1 (0.73%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.79%) Management Information System
2 19 (13.87%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.76%) Derivative
4 9 (6.57%) Clustering
5 8 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.65%) Replication
8 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.92%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.92%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (2.92%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.19%) Blackberry
9 3 (2.19%) PKI
9 3 (2.19%) RSA SecurID
10 2 (1.46%) FPGA
10 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 137 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (36.50%) Windows
3 37 (27.01%) Unix
4 31 (22.63%) CentOS
5 22 (16.06%) Windows Server
6 16 (11.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (9.49%) Debian
8 12 (8.76%) Solaris
9 11 (8.03%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.84%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (1.46%) AIX
12 2 (1.46%) CoreOS
12 2 (1.46%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (1.46%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.73%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.73%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.47%) ITIL
2 29 (21.17%) DevOps
3 25 (18.25%) Change Management
4 23 (16.79%) Containerisation
4 23 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.87%) Root Cause Analysis
6 18 (13.14%) Low Latency
6 18 (13.14%) Release Management
7 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (11.68%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (10.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (9.49%) Agile
9 13 (9.49%) Configuration Management
10 12 (8.76%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (8.76%) SOA
10 12 (8.76%) Systems Analysis
10 12 (8.76%) Unit Testing
11 11 (8.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (53.28%) Python
2 48 (35.04%) Bash
3 21 (15.33%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.49%) C++
5 12 (8.76%) Perl
6 10 (7.30%) Korn
7 7 (5.11%) Java
7 7 (5.11%) SQL
8 6 (4.38%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.19%) PHP
10 2 (1.46%) C
10 2 (1.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.73%) C#
11 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.71%) Degree
3 22 (16.06%) AWS Certification
4 21 (15.33%) DV Cleared
4 21 (15.33%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (10.95%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.65%) RHCE
6 5 (3.65%) RHCSA
7 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.19%) CCNA
8 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.46%) CCNP
9 2 (1.46%) MCSE
9 2 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.73%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.73%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.09%) SLA
2 7 (5.11%) QA
3 2 (1.46%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (29.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.60%) Active Directory
2 20 (14.60%) Docker
3 12 (8.76%) vSphere
4 9 (6.57%) NFS
5 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.46%) KVM
7 2 (1.46%) pfSense
7 2 (1.46%) Postfix
7 2 (1.46%) Samba
7 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.73%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (42.34%) Ansible
2 34 (24.82%) Kubernetes
3 24 (17.52%) Terraform
4 14 (10.22%) Puppet
5 6 (4.38%) Grafana
5 6 (4.38%) Nagios
5 6 (4.38%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.65%) Podman
6 5 (3.65%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.65%) WSUS
7 3 (2.19%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.19%) SCOM
7 3 (2.19%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.46%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.73%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.73%) SCCM
9 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (64.23%) Red Hat
2 52 (37.96%) VMware
3 18 (13.14%) IBM
4 15 (10.95%) Cisco
5 13 (9.49%) Microsoft
6 12 (8.76%) Oracle
7 11 (8.03%) ServiceNow
8 10 (7.30%) Commvault
9 9 (6.57%) Splunk
10 8 (5.84%) Dell
10 8 (5.84%) NetApp
11 7 (5.11%) Pure Storage
12 6 (4.38%) HP
13 5 (3.65%) Atlassian
13 5 (3.65%) Symantec
14 3 (2.19%) Google
14 3 (2.19%) McAfee
14 3 (2.19%) SaltStack
15 2 (1.46%) Mirantis
15 2 (1.46%) SolarWinds