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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 503 509
Rank change year-on-year -112 +6 -71
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 191 179 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.95% 2.79% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 133 124 218
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £41,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,063 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £96,042
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% -9.09%

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 6,479 6,422 9,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.68% 13.01% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,796 4,150 6,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,844 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £66,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -3.23%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -94 181 £70,000 +7.69% 211
UK excluding London -75 133 £70,000 +21.74% 119
London -82 54 £75,000 -6.25% 100
North of England -32 48 £97,500 +50.00% 26
South East -46 43 £67,500 +4.25% 25
North West +13 35 £55,000 -26.54% 20
Work from Home -65 24 £65,000 -3.70% 72
South West -55 22 £75,000 +25.00% 18
Scotland +8 7 £63,451 +49.30% 12
Yorkshire -34 7 £97,500 +50.00% 4
Midlands -34 7 £75,000 +30.43% 16
East of England -41 6 £48,750 +12.07% 23
North East -59 6 £97,500 +77.27% 2
East Midlands -32 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
West Midlands -42 2 - - 15

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 9 (4.71%) Apache
1 9 (4.71%) Confluence
1 9 (4.71%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) JBoss
4 2 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.24%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 69 (36.13%) AWS
2 43 (22.51%) Azure
3 25 (13.09%) GitHub
4 15 (7.85%) OpenShift
5 13 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.71%) Serverless
8 8 (4.19%) GCP
9 6 (3.14%) Datadog
10 5 (2.62%) IaaS
10 5 (2.62%) Nutanix
11 4 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.09%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.09%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.32%) DNS
2 26 (13.61%) Firewall
3 19 (9.95%) SAN
4 14 (7.33%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.81%) LAN
6 8 (4.19%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.19%) WAN
7 7 (3.66%) AMQP
7 7 (3.66%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.14%) DHCP
8 6 (3.14%) HTTP
9 5 (2.62%) Kerberos
9 5 (2.62%) VSAN
10 4 (2.09%) NAS
10 4 (2.09%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.09%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.57%) SSL
11 3 (1.57%) VoIP
12 2 (1.05%) VPN
13 1 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.81%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.71%) Hadoop
3 9 (4.71%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.19%) Big Data
5 7 (3.66%) Cloudera CDH
5 7 (3.66%) MySQL
5 7 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.52%) GIS
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (19.37%) Git
2 33 (17.28%) GitLab
3 31 (16.23%) Jenkins
4 24 (12.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (6.28%) JIRA
6 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.05%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.52%) git-flow
8 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.28%) Finance
3 27 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.09%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.90%) Aerospace
6 16 (8.38%) Banking
7 11 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.09%) Military
12 3 (1.57%) Front Office
12 3 (1.57%) Legal
12 3 (1.57%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.57%) Retail
12 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.05%) Advertising
14 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.52%) Law
14 1 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (17.80%) Senior
2 28 (14.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.14%) Linux Engineer
4 25 (13.09%) Administrator
5 21 (10.99%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.99%) Principal Engineer
6 20 (10.47%) Systems Administrator
7 15 (7.85%) Architect
8 14 (7.33%) Applications Architect
9 13 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (6.28%) DBA
10 12 (6.28%) Lead
11 11 (5.76%) Security Architect
12 10 (5.24%) Oracle DBA
12 10 (5.24%) Senior DBA
12 10 (5.24%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 9 (4.71%) Linux Administrator
13 9 (4.71%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.19%) AIX Engineer
14 8 (4.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (33.51%) Terraform
2 20 (10.47%) LDAP
3 18 (9.42%) Regular Expression
4 17 (8.90%) XMPP
5 8 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (4.19%) React
6 7 (3.66%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.66%) gRPC
6 7 (3.66%) Material-UI
6 7 (3.66%) Node.js
6 7 (3.66%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.66%) REST
6 7 (3.66%) Spring
6 7 (3.66%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.66%) Swagger
7 5 (2.62%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.62%) JSON
7 5 (2.62%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.09%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.42%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.19%) PKI
4 8 (4.19%) Social Media
5 7 (3.66%) Replication
6 6 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.14%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.62%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.09%) Clustering
8 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.09%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.57%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.57%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.57%) Web3
10 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 191 (100.00%) Linux
2 69 (36.13%) Windows
3 58 (30.37%) Windows Server
4 56 (29.32%) CentOS
5 29 (15.18%) Unix
6 25 (13.09%) Ubuntu
7 20 (10.47%) AIX
8 19 (9.95%) Debian
9 14 (7.33%) Rocky
10 12 (6.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (5.24%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (2.62%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.62%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (2.09%) Solaris
14 2 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.13%) DevOps
2 58 (30.37%) CI/CD
3 45 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (21.99%) ITIL
5 39 (20.42%) Platform Engineering
6 35 (18.32%) Technical Leadership
7 34 (17.80%) Configuration Management
8 33 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.28%) High Availability
8 33 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 30 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (15.18%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (14.66%) Microservices
11 28 (14.66%) SIEM
12 26 (13.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (13.09%) Agile
14 22 (11.52%) Roadmaps
15 21 (10.99%) Containerisation
15 21 (10.99%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.89%) Python
2 57 (29.84%) Bash
3 30 (15.71%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.57%) SQL
5 22 (11.52%) Java
5 22 (11.52%) Shell Script
6 17 (8.90%) Korn
7 11 (5.76%) PL/SQL
8 10 (5.24%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.09%) PHP
10 3 (1.57%) Perl
11 2 (1.05%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) C#
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 91 (47.64%) Security Cleared
2 61 (31.94%) DV Cleared
3 45 (23.56%) SC Cleared
4 22 (11.52%) Degree
5 8 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.66%) RHCSA
7 5 (2.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.62%) CCSP
7 5 (2.62%) CISM
7 5 (2.62%) CISSP
8 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.57%) CCNA
9 3 (1.57%) Dell Certification
9 3 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.57%) MCSE
9 3 (1.57%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) GDPR
1 5 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.62%) NIST
1 5 (2.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.09%) SLA
3 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 59 (30.89%) Docker
2 42 (21.99%) Active Directory
3 27 (14.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (13.09%) vSphere
5 13 (6.81%) Hyper-V
6 12 (6.28%) Oracle RAC
6 12 (6.28%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (2.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.05%) Xen
11 1 (0.52%) NFS
11 1 (0.52%) Samba
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (39.79%) Ansible
2 63 (32.98%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.18%) Puppet
4 21 (10.99%) Nagios
5 13 (6.81%) Data Guard
6 12 (6.28%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (5.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (5.24%) Podman
9 9 (4.71%) ZABBIX
10 6 (3.14%) Grafana
11 5 (2.62%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.62%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.62%) SCVMM
12 4 (2.09%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (2.09%) NetBackup
12 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
13 3 (1.57%) Argo
13 3 (1.57%) Nessus
13 3 (1.57%) vRealize
13 3 (1.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 123 (64.40%) Red Hat
2 49 (25.65%) VMware
3 40 (20.94%) Microsoft
4 23 (12.04%) Oracle
5 19 (9.95%) McAfee
6 12 (6.28%) IBM
6 12 (6.28%) Splunk
7 11 (5.76%) NetApp
8 8 (4.19%) Dell
8 8 (4.19%) Google
8 8 (4.19%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.66%) Citrix
9 7 (3.66%) SaltStack
9 7 (3.66%) Veeam
10 6 (3.14%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.62%) CyberArk
11 5 (2.62%) Qualys
11 5 (2.62%) Rapid7
11 5 (2.62%) Tenable
11 5 (2.62%) Veracode