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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 510 443
Rank change year-on-year +2 -67 +18
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 137 207 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.39% 0.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.78% 2.57% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 88 115 234
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £46,875 £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 £101,750
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 4,923 8,058 8,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.24% 15.00% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,653 4,552 6,956
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,850 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £45,819 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.16% +1.82% -

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 9 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 9 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 +8 129 £62,500 -3.85% 62
London +69 83 £85,000 +3.03% 16
Work from Home +56 46 £85,000 +47.83% 35
UK excluding London -26 46 £50,000 -13.04% 53
South East +9 17 £50,000 +11.11% 18
East of England +12 11 £43,500 -25.96% 8
South West -18 8 £55,000 -23.60% 11
North West +25 7 £60,000 +50.00% 3
North of England +2 7 £60,000 +4.35% 9
Scotland -2 3 £53,750 +22.86% 1
Midlands +13 1 - - 4
East Midlands -14 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%) WildFly
9 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
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 9 (6.57%) SaaS
8 8 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.11%) Route 53
10 6 (4.38%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (4.38%) GCP
10 6 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.46%) AWS CloudTrail
13 2 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.14%) Firewall
2 17 (12.41%) SSL
3 16 (11.68%) DNS
4 15 (10.95%) LAN
4 15 (10.95%) SAN
4 15 (10.95%) TCP/IP
5 14 (10.22%) WAN
6 13 (9.49%) Multicast
7 7 (5.11%) VSAN
8 6 (4.38%) DHCP
8 6 (4.38%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (3.65%) HTTP
10 4 (2.92%) iSCSI
10 4 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.19%) AMQP
11 3 (2.19%) Skype
11 3 (2.19%) VPN
12 2 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.46%) NAS
12 2 (1.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (16.79%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.14%) DB2
4 9 (6.57%) MySQL
5 7 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.65%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.65%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.92%) Big Data
8 3 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.19%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.46%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
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%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.73%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (13.14%) Git
2 15 (10.95%) 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 54 (39.42%) Finance
2 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.33%) 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 38 (27.74%) Linux Engineer
2 33 (24.09%) Linux Support
3 32 (23.36%) Administrator
4 24 (17.52%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (15.33%) Support Engineer
6 18 (13.14%) Linux Support Engineer
7 17 (12.41%) Applications Support
7 17 (12.41%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (10.95%) Unix Support
9 12 (8.76%) C++ Developer
9 12 (8.76%) Developer
9 12 (8.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (8.03%) 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 Systems Administrator
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
6 4 (2.92%) REST
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%) 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 10 (7.30%) Clustering
5 7 (5.11%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.38%) Replication
7 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.92%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.92%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (2.19%) Blackberry
9 3 (2.19%) PKI
9 3 (2.19%) RSA SecurID
9 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.46%) FPGA
10 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 137 (100.00%) Linux
2 50 (36.50%) Windows
3 37 (27.01%) Unix
4 32 (23.36%) CentOS
5 22 (16.06%) Windows Server
6 15 (10.95%) 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
13 1 (0.73%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (27.74%) ITIL
2 29 (21.17%) DevOps
3 24 (17.52%) Change Management
4 23 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (16.06%) Containerisation
6 21 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.87%) Root Cause Analysis
8 18 (13.14%) Release Management
9 17 (12.41%) Low Latency
9 17 (12.41%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (10.22%) Agile
13 13 (9.49%) Configuration Management
14 12 (8.76%) Concurrent Programming
14 12 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (8.76%) SOA
14 12 (8.76%) Systems Analysis
14 12 (8.76%) Unit Testing
15 11 (8.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (54.01%) Python
2 49 (35.77%) Bash
3 21 (15.33%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.49%) C++
4 13 (9.49%) Perl
5 11 (8.03%) Korn
6 8 (5.84%) SQL
7 7 (5.11%) Java
7 7 (5.11%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.92%) PHP
9 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
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 28 (20.44%) 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 6 (4.38%) QA
3 2 (1.46%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 40 (29.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.60%) Docker
3 19 (13.87%) Active Directory
4 12 (8.76%) vSphere
5 9 (6.57%) NFS
6 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (2.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.46%) KVM
8 2 (1.46%) pfSense
8 2 (1.46%) Postfix
8 2 (1.46%) Samba
8 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.73%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (42.34%) Ansible
2 35 (25.55%) 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%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.73%) SCCM
9 1 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 89 (64.96%) Red Hat
2 51 (37.23%) VMware
3 18 (13.14%) IBM
4 15 (10.95%) Cisco
5 13 (9.49%) Microsoft
5 13 (9.49%) Oracle
6 11 (8.03%) ServiceNow
7 10 (7.30%) Commvault
8 9 (6.57%) Splunk
9 8 (5.84%) Dell
9 8 (5.84%) NetApp
9 8 (5.84%) Pure Storage
10 6 (4.38%) HP
11 5 (3.65%) Atlassian
11 5 (3.65%) Symantec
12 3 (2.19%) Google
12 3 (2.19%) McAfee
12 3 (2.19%) SaltStack
13 2 (1.46%) Mirantis
13 2 (1.46%) SolarWinds