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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 502 568
Rank change year-on-year -43 +66 -19
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 172 153 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.19% 2.25% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 139 120 256
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £83,750 £96,250 £96,737
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% +5.00%

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 5,392 6,790 13,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.90% 15.52% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,966 4,344 10,711
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -36 155 £63,750 -8.93% 64
UK excluding London -45 92 £67,500 +3.85% 53
London 0 73 £58,750 -22.95% 17
South East +2 47 £67,500 +17.39% 14
Work from Home -7 26 £70,000 - 133
North West +14 18 £55,000 -26.54% 4
North of England -31 18 £55,000 -21.43% 15
South West -40 15 £75,000 +4.18% 16
Scotland 0 10 £46,000 +5.14%
East of England -23 1 £70,000 -1.75% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 19 (11.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.40%) Apache
3 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.49%) Confluence
5 5 (2.91%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.33%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.74%) CMS
7 3 (1.74%) WordPress
8 2 (1.16%) IIS
8 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.91%) AWS
2 37 (21.51%) Azure
3 13 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (6.40%) OpenShift
5 9 (5.23%) SaaS
6 8 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.65%) IaaS
7 7 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.07%) GCP
7 7 (4.07%) Serverless
8 6 (3.49%) Datadog
9 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.91%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.74%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (1.74%) GitHub
11 3 (1.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (30.23%) DNS
2 31 (18.02%) SAN
3 30 (17.44%) Firewall
4 25 (14.53%) TCP/IP
5 21 (12.21%) LAN
6 18 (10.47%) HTTP
7 14 (8.14%) Wireshark
8 11 (6.40%) Multicast
8 11 (6.40%) WAN
9 10 (5.81%) iSCSI
9 10 (5.81%) NAS
10 8 (4.65%) NetScaler
10 8 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (3.49%) ATM
11 6 (3.49%) DHCP
11 6 (3.49%) tcpdump
12 5 (2.91%) AMQP
13 4 (2.33%) VSAN
14 3 (1.74%) VoIP
15 2 (1.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.81%) MySQL
4 7 (4.07%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.91%) Big Data
5 5 (2.91%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (2.91%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.74%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.58%) Power BI
8 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.58%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (10.47%) Git
2 13 (7.56%) GitLab
3 10 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.23%) JIRA
5 6 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.74%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.74%) TestRail
8 1 (0.58%) git-flow
8 1 (0.58%) Maven
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 43 (25.00%) Finance
3 22 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.30%) Banking
5 14 (8.14%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (4.07%) Front Office
9 6 (3.49%) Automotive
9 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.49%) Spanish Language
10 4 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.74%) Military
12 2 (1.16%) Advertising
12 2 (1.16%) Retail
13 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (18.60%) Linux Engineer
2 30 (17.44%) Administrator
3 20 (11.63%) Senior
4 19 (11.05%) Linux Administrator
4 19 (11.05%) Systems Administrator
5 18 (10.47%) Linux Support
6 17 (9.88%) Support Engineer
7 16 (9.30%) Applications Architect
7 16 (9.30%) Architect
8 14 (8.14%) Linux Support Engineer
9 12 (6.98%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.81%) Lead
10 10 (5.81%) Security Architect
10 10 (5.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) Developer
13 6 (3.49%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.30%) Regular Expression
2 14 (8.14%) LDAP
3 12 (6.98%) XMPP
4 10 (5.81%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.49%) Middleware
5 6 (3.49%) REST
6 5 (2.91%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.91%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.91%) gRPC
6 5 (2.91%) Material-UI
6 5 (2.91%) Node.js
6 5 (2.91%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.91%) React
6 5 (2.91%) Spring
6 5 (2.91%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.91%) Swagger
7 4 (2.33%) JSON Schema
7 4 (2.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.12%) Data Centre
2 16 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.72%) PKI
4 14 (8.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.65%) Clustering
6 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.91%) Derivative
7 5 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.91%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.91%) Replication
8 4 (2.33%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.33%) Web3
9 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
11 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 172 (100.00%) Linux
2 67 (38.95%) Windows
3 56 (32.56%) Windows Server
4 44 (25.58%) CentOS
5 24 (13.95%) Ubuntu
6 23 (13.37%) Unix
7 13 (7.56%) Debian
8 10 (5.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (4.65%) AIX
10 6 (3.49%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.91%) Solaris
12 4 (2.33%) CoreOS
13 3 (1.74%) VMS
14 2 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (1.16%) Rocky
14 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.49%) DevOps
2 44 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.51%) CI/CD
4 31 (18.02%) ITIL
4 31 (18.02%) SIEM
5 28 (16.28%) High Availability
6 25 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (13.95%) Configuration Management
8 22 (12.79%) Agile
9 21 (12.21%) Containerisation
9 21 (12.21%) Validation
10 20 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (11.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (8.72%) Observability
15 13 (7.56%) Antivirus Management
15 13 (7.56%) Application Security
15 13 (7.56%) Roadmaps
15 13 (7.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (34.88%) Python
2 53 (30.81%) Bash
3 30 (17.44%) PowerShell
4 27 (15.70%) SQL
5 14 (8.14%) PHP
6 13 (7.56%) Perl
7 12 (6.98%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.40%) Korn
9 9 (5.23%) Java
10 6 (3.49%) C++
11 5 (2.91%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.33%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.16%) C
14 1 (0.58%) Groovy
14 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.93%) DV Cleared
3 19 (11.05%) Degree
4 15 (8.72%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.56%) RHCSA
6 11 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.33%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.33%) RHCE
10 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.74%) CCNA
10 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.74%) MCSE
11 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.58%) CISSP
12 1 (0.58%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.81%) SLA
2 2 (1.16%) NIST
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.58%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (29.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (25.58%) Active Directory
2 44 (25.58%) Docker
3 31 (18.02%) vSphere
4 11 (6.40%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 7 (4.07%) KVM
7 5 (2.91%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (2.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.16%) Samba
10 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (30.81%) Ansible
1 53 (30.81%) Kubernetes
2 39 (22.67%) Terraform
3 25 (14.53%) Puppet
4 23 (13.37%) Nagios
5 10 (5.81%) Grafana
6 8 (4.65%) WSUS
7 7 (4.07%) Podman
8 6 (3.49%) Data Guard
8 6 (3.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.91%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.91%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.33%) Argo
10 4 (2.33%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (2.33%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.58%) Graylog
12 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 115 (66.86%) Red Hat
2 80 (46.51%) VMware
3 37 (21.51%) Microsoft
4 19 (11.05%) McAfee
5 14 (8.14%) Oracle
6 11 (6.40%) SolarWinds
6 11 (6.40%) Splunk
7 10 (5.81%) Dell
8 8 (4.65%) Citrix
8 8 (4.65%) NetApp
9 6 (3.49%) Google
10 5 (2.91%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.91%) Symantec
11 4 (2.33%) IBM
11 4 (2.33%) Mirantis
12 3 (1.74%) Pure Storage
12 3 (1.74%) Veeam
13 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow