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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 508 592
Rank change year-on-year -57 +84 -69
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 177 170 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.07% 2.58% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 146 129 263
10th Percentile £45,875 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74,688 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +19.05% +1.94%

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 5,762 6,590 14,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.12% 14.68% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,333 4,289 10,775
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -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 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 14 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 20 June 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 -69 162 £65,000 -7.14% 49
UK excluding London -32 106 £67,500 +8.00% 38
London -31 67 £60,000 -22.58% 14
South East -7 52 £67,500 +11.57% 11
Work from Home -23 24 £70,000 - 13
North of England -28 21 £43,750 -35.19% 9
North West +15 20 £40,000 -46.57% 5
South West -49 16 £75,000 +20.00% 13
Scotland +14 10 £46,000 -
Midlands -30 4 £75,000 +30.43% 3
East Midlands -33 4 £75,000 +30.43% 3
East of England -18 2 £56,250 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire -51 1 £97,500 +50.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 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 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.65%) Apache
3 7 (3.95%) Confluence
3 7 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.26%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.69%) CMS
6 3 (1.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (5.08%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 45 (25.42%) AWS
2 40 (22.60%) Azure
3 13 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (4.52%) IaaS
6 7 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.95%) Azure Stack
6 7 (3.95%) OpenShift
6 7 (3.95%) SaaS
6 7 (3.95%) Serverless
7 6 (3.39%) Datadog
7 6 (3.39%) GCP
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.82%) GitHub
9 4 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (31.07%) DNS
2 35 (19.77%) Firewall
3 31 (17.51%) SAN
4 23 (12.99%) TCP/IP
5 20 (11.30%) LAN
6 16 (9.04%) HTTP
7 14 (7.91%) Wireshark
8 11 (6.21%) WAN
9 10 (5.65%) iSCSI
9 10 (5.65%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (5.08%) NAS
11 8 (4.52%) NetScaler
12 6 (3.39%) ATM
12 6 (3.39%) Multicast
12 6 (3.39%) tcpdump
13 5 (2.82%) AMQP
13 5 (2.82%) DHCP
14 4 (2.26%) VSAN
15 3 (1.69%) VoIP
15 3 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.08%) MySQL
3 9 (5.08%) Oracle Database
4 7 (3.95%) Hadoop
5 6 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.82%) Big Data
6 5 (2.82%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.56%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 23 (12.99%) Git
2 15 (8.47%) GitLab
3 12 (6.78%) JIRA
4 8 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) git-flow
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.56%) TestRail
General
1 61 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.77%) Finance
3 27 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.30%) Banking
5 14 (7.91%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.39%) Automotive
8 6 (3.39%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.26%) Front Office
10 4 (2.26%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.69%) Military
12 2 (1.13%) Advertising
12 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Retail
12 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (15.25%) Linux Engineer
1 27 (15.25%) Senior
2 26 (14.69%) Administrator
3 20 (11.30%) Applications Architect
3 20 (11.30%) Architect
3 20 (11.30%) Systems Administrator
4 14 (7.91%) Security Architect
4 14 (7.91%) Support Engineer
5 13 (7.34%) Linux Administrator
6 12 (6.78%) Linux Support
6 12 (6.78%) Linux Support Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Lead
8 10 (5.65%) DBA
8 10 (5.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 9 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Oracle DBA
9 9 (5.08%) Senior DBA
9 9 (5.08%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 7 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.43%) Regular Expression
2 20 (11.30%) LDAP
3 18 (10.17%) XMPP
4 9 (5.08%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.95%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.39%) JSON
6 6 (3.39%) JSON Schema
6 6 (3.39%) REST
6 6 (3.39%) XML
7 5 (2.82%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.82%) gRPC
7 5 (2.82%) Material-UI
7 5 (2.82%) Middleware
7 5 (2.82%) Node.js
7 5 (2.82%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.82%) React
7 5 (2.82%) Spring
7 5 (2.82%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.43%) Data Centre
2 19 (10.73%) Cloud Native
3 17 (9.60%) PKI
4 14 (7.91%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.39%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.82%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.26%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.26%) Web3
8 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.69%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.69%) Replication
9 2 (1.13%) Clustering
9 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 177 (100.00%) Linux
2 72 (40.68%) Windows
3 62 (35.03%) Windows Server
4 41 (23.16%) CentOS
5 25 (14.12%) Ubuntu
6 24 (13.56%) Unix
7 13 (7.34%) AIX
8 12 (6.78%) Debian
9 11 (6.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (5.65%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (2.26%) CoreOS
11 4 (2.26%) OpenVMS
11 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.69%) Solaris
12 3 (1.69%) VMS
13 2 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (1.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.94%) DevOps
2 44 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (23.16%) SIEM
4 39 (22.03%) CI/CD
5 32 (18.08%) High Availability
5 32 (18.08%) ITIL
6 27 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (14.69%) Configuration Management
8 25 (14.12%) Validation
9 23 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (12.43%) Agile
10 22 (12.43%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (12.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (11.30%) Containerisation
12 18 (10.17%) Observability
13 17 (9.60%) Antivirus Management
13 17 (9.60%) Application Security
14 16 (9.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (31.64%) Python
2 52 (29.38%) Bash
3 32 (18.08%) SQL
4 29 (16.38%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.17%) Shell Script
6 16 (9.04%) Korn
7 15 (8.47%) PHP
8 14 (7.91%) Java
9 9 (5.08%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.52%) Perl
11 7 (3.95%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.13%) C
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 64 (36.16%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.86%) DV Cleared
3 23 (12.99%) Degree
4 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.78%) RHCSA
6 10 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.26%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.26%) RHCE
9 3 (1.69%) CCNA
9 3 (1.69%) MCSE
10 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.13%) CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) CISM
10 2 (1.13%) CISSP
10 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.13%) Dell Certification
10 2 (1.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.82%) SLA
2 3 (1.69%) NIST
3 2 (1.13%) GDPR
3 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (28.25%) Active Directory
2 43 (24.29%) Docker
3 42 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (20.90%) vSphere
5 12 (6.78%) Hyper-V
6 10 (5.65%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (4.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (3.95%) KVM
9 5 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.13%) Samba
11 2 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 56 (31.64%) Kubernetes
2 47 (26.55%) Ansible
3 43 (24.29%) Terraform
4 27 (15.25%) Nagios
5 26 (14.69%) Puppet
6 10 (5.65%) Data Guard
7 9 (5.08%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (5.08%) WSUS
8 8 (4.52%) Grafana
9 7 (3.95%) Podman
10 6 (3.39%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.82%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.82%) ZABBIX
12 4 (2.26%) Argo
12 4 (2.26%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (2.26%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
12 4 (2.26%) SCVMM
13 1 (0.56%) Graylog
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 113 (63.84%) Red Hat
2 75 (42.37%) VMware
3 42 (23.73%) Microsoft
4 25 (14.12%) McAfee
5 15 (8.47%) Oracle
6 13 (7.34%) Splunk
7 10 (5.65%) Dell
7 10 (5.65%) SolarWinds
8 9 (5.08%) IBM
9 8 (4.52%) Citrix
9 8 (4.52%) NetApp
10 6 (3.39%) Google
11 5 (2.82%) SaltStack
11 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.69%) Pure Storage
12 3 (1.69%) Veeam
13 2 (1.13%) Fujitsu
13 2 (1.13%) Ivanti
13 2 (1.13%) OpenText
13 2 (1.13%) Qualys