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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 490 436
Rank change year-on-year -12 -54 +35
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 143 223 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.84% 2.68% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 93 133 233
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,465 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% +4.74% +4.17%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,000 £90,000 £100,000
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 5,030 8,312 8,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.43% 14.96% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 4,808 6,957
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,499 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,246 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% +0.49% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,650 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,148 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.46% +4.77% -

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 +16 135 £70,000 +6.93% 202
London +85 87 £85,000 +3.03% 41
Work from Home +43 49 £85,000 +31.27% 96
UK excluding London -47 48 £50,000 -13.04% 175
South East +14 18 £50,000 +11.11% 49
East of England +20 12 £43,000 -26.81% 36
South West -17 8 £55,000 -23.60% 19
North West +22 7 £60,000 -8.35% 15
North of England +3 7 £60,000 -8.35% 32
Scotland -7 3 £53,750 +7.50% 7
Midlands +6 1 - - 30
East Midlands -12 1 - - 13

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 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 19 (13.29%) WebSphere
3 16 (11.19%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (6.29%) Apache
6 5 (3.50%) Confluence
6 5 (3.50%) IIS
7 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
7 3 (2.10%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.40%) JBoss
8 2 (1.40%) nginx
8 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.40%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 56 (39.16%) AWS
2 24 (16.78%) Azure
3 17 (11.89%) OpenShift
4 12 (8.39%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (7.69%) Cohesity
6 10 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.99%) GitHub
6 10 (6.99%) Serverless
7 8 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.59%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.59%) SaaS
8 7 (4.90%) GCP
8 7 (4.90%) Route 53
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.29%) Firewall
2 17 (11.89%) SAN
2 17 (11.89%) SSL
3 15 (10.49%) DNS
3 15 (10.49%) LAN
4 14 (9.79%) TCP/IP
4 14 (9.79%) WAN
5 13 (9.09%) Multicast
6 7 (4.90%) VSAN
7 6 (4.20%) DHCP
7 6 (4.20%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (3.50%) iSCSI
8 5 (3.50%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (2.80%) HTTP
10 3 (2.10%) AMQP
10 3 (2.10%) Skype
10 3 (2.10%) VPN
11 2 (1.40%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.40%) NAS
11 2 (1.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
1 24 (16.78%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.59%) DB2
3 9 (6.29%) MySQL
4 7 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.50%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.80%) Big Data
6 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.10%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.40%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.70%) Power BI
9 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (13.29%) Git
2 18 (12.59%) GitLab
3 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.90%) JIRA
5 6 (4.20%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.40%) Ant
7 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.40%) Maven
7 2 (1.40%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.40%) TestRail
General
1 59 (41.26%) Finance
2 35 (24.48%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.08%) Banking
4 12 (8.39%) Front Office
5 10 (6.99%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.80%) Advertising
8 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Electronics
9 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.40%) Military
9 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.70%) Automotive
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (26.57%) Linux Engineer
2 35 (24.48%) Administrator
3 32 (22.38%) Linux Support
4 26 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
5 20 (13.99%) Support Engineer
6 17 (11.89%) Applications Support
6 17 (11.89%) Infrastructure Support
6 17 (11.89%) Linux Support Engineer
7 15 (10.49%) Systems Administrator
7 15 (10.49%) Unix Support
8 13 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.39%) C++ Developer
9 12 (8.39%) Developer
9 12 (8.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 11 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.29%) Cisco Engineer
11 9 (6.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 9 (6.29%) Linux Specialist
11 9 (6.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 9 (6.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.59%) LDAP
2 16 (11.19%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (11.19%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (8.39%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.59%) Kafka
5 7 (4.90%) Middleware
6 4 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.10%) gRPC
7 3 (2.10%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.10%) Node.js
7 3 (2.10%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.10%) React
7 3 (2.10%) REST
7 3 (2.10%) Spring
7 3 (2.10%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.10%) Swagger
8 2 (1.40%) LAMP
9 1 (0.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.78%) Management Information System
2 19 (13.29%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.39%) Derivative
4 9 (6.29%) Clustering
4 9 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.90%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.20%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.50%) Replication
7 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.80%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (2.10%) Blackberry
9 3 (2.10%) PKI
9 3 (2.10%) RSA SecurID
10 2 (1.40%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) FPGA
10 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 143 (100.00%) Linux
2 52 (36.36%) Windows
3 37 (25.87%) Unix
4 32 (22.38%) CentOS
5 22 (15.38%) Windows Server
6 18 (12.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (9.09%) Debian
8 12 (8.39%) Solaris
9 11 (7.69%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.10%) Windows 10
13 2 (1.40%) AIX
13 2 (1.40%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.70%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.70%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.67%) ITIL
2 31 (21.68%) DevOps
3 26 (18.18%) Change Management
4 25 (17.48%) Containerisation
5 23 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (14.69%) Low Latency
6 21 (14.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.59%) Release Management
9 16 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (9.79%) Agile
10 14 (9.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (9.09%) Configuration Management
11 13 (9.09%) Incident Response
12 12 (8.39%) CI/CD
12 12 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.39%) SOA
12 12 (8.39%) Systems Analysis
12 12 (8.39%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (51.75%) Python
2 50 (34.97%) Bash
3 21 (14.69%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.09%) C++
5 12 (8.39%) Perl
6 11 (7.69%) Korn
7 8 (5.59%) Java
7 8 (5.59%) SQL
8 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.10%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.10%) PHP
10 2 (1.40%) C
10 2 (1.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.70%) C#
11 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.28%) Degree
3 22 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 21 (14.69%) DV Cleared
4 21 (14.69%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (10.49%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.50%) RHCE
6 5 (3.50%) RHCSA
7 4 (2.80%) CCNA
7 4 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.10%) MCSE
8 3 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.40%) CCNP
9 2 (1.40%) Dell Certification
9 2 (1.40%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (23.08%) SLA
2 10 (6.99%) QA
3 2 (1.40%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (28.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 21 (14.69%) Docker
4 13 (9.09%) vSphere
5 9 (6.29%) NFS
6 6 (4.20%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (3.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.40%) KVM
9 2 (1.40%) pfSense
9 2 (1.40%) Postfix
9 2 (1.40%) Samba
10 1 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.70%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (40.56%) Ansible
2 35 (24.48%) Kubernetes
3 25 (17.48%) Terraform
4 14 (9.79%) Puppet
5 6 (4.20%) Grafana
5 6 (4.20%) Nagios
5 6 (4.20%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.20%) WSUS
6 5 (3.50%) Podman
6 5 (3.50%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.10%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.10%) SCOM
7 3 (2.10%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.40%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.70%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.70%) SCCM
9 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 90 (62.94%) Red Hat
2 53 (37.06%) VMware
3 18 (12.59%) IBM
4 17 (11.89%) Cisco
5 16 (11.19%) Microsoft
6 12 (8.39%) Oracle
7 11 (7.69%) ServiceNow
8 10 (6.99%) Commvault
8 10 (6.99%) Dell
8 10 (6.99%) Splunk
9 8 (5.59%) NetApp
10 7 (4.90%) HP
10 7 (4.90%) Pure Storage
11 5 (3.50%) Atlassian
11 5 (3.50%) Symantec
12 3 (2.10%) Google
12 3 (2.10%) McAfee
12 3 (2.10%) SaltStack
13 2 (1.40%) Mirantis
13 2 (1.40%) SolarWinds