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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 517 502
Rank change year-on-year -66 -15 -8
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 208 185 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.25% 2.66% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 157 136 249
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,438 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,125 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% +15.24% -

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 6,393 6,953 10,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.02% 13.92% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,777 4,642 7,448
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -68 195 £67,500 -3.57% 77
UK excluding London -57 140 £67,500 +11.57% 46
London -67 66 £75,000 -6.25% 40
South East +2 57 £67,500 +9.76% 10
North of England -26 40 £97,500 +50.00% 12
North West +21 30 £47,500 -36.56% 10
Work from Home -47 27 £70,000 +3.70% 23
South West -41 20 £75,000 +22.45% 15
Scotland +19 11 £63,451 +49.30% 6
Midlands -41 7 £75,000 +30.43% 2
East Midlands -29 5 £75,000 +30.43%
Yorkshire -30 5 £97,500 +50.00% 1
East of England -31 5 £55,000 +4.76% 1
North East -53 5 £97,500 +77.27% 1
West Midlands -29 2 - - 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 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.33%) Apache
2 9 (4.33%) Confluence
3 8 (3.85%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.96%) JBoss
5 2 (0.96%) nginx
5 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (5.29%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.21%) AWS
2 49 (23.56%) Azure
3 20 (9.62%) GitHub
4 15 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.77%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.37%) Datadog
7 7 (3.37%) IaaS
7 7 (3.37%) Serverless
8 6 (2.88%) Azure Stack
8 6 (2.88%) GCP
9 5 (2.40%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.92%) SaaS
10 4 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (24.04%) DNS
2 38 (18.27%) Firewall
3 28 (13.46%) SAN
4 22 (10.58%) TCP/IP
5 19 (9.13%) LAN
6 12 (5.77%) HTTP
6 12 (5.77%) WAN
6 12 (5.77%) Wireshark
7 11 (5.29%) Remote Desktop
8 10 (4.81%) iSCSI
9 9 (4.33%) NAS
10 8 (3.85%) NetScaler
11 6 (2.88%) DHCP
12 5 (2.40%) AMQP
12 5 (2.40%) Kerberos
12 5 (2.40%) VSAN
13 4 (1.92%) ATM
13 4 (1.92%) Multicast
13 4 (1.92%) tcpdump
14 3 (1.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.77%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.81%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.81%) MySQL
3 10 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.37%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.88%) Big Data
6 5 (2.40%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.48%) GIS
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 40 (19.23%) Git
2 28 (13.46%) GitLab
3 27 (12.98%) Jenkins
4 21 (10.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (6.73%) JIRA
6 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.96%) Maven
8 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.48%) git-flow
8 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (39.42%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Finance
3 33 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.13%) Banking
6 15 (7.21%) Aerospace
7 14 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.92%) Automotive
11 4 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.92%) Spanish Language
12 3 (1.44%) Front Office
12 3 (1.44%) Legal
12 3 (1.44%) Military
12 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.96%) Advertising
13 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (17.31%) Senior
2 33 (15.87%) Linux Engineer
3 27 (12.98%) Administrator
4 23 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (11.06%) Systems Administrator
5 20 (9.62%) Applications Architect
5 20 (9.62%) Architect
6 17 (8.17%) Lead
6 17 (8.17%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 17 (8.17%) Principal Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Security Architect
8 12 (5.77%) DBA
8 12 (5.77%) Linux Administrator
8 12 (5.77%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 11 (5.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 11 (5.29%) Oracle DBA
9 11 (5.29%) Senior DBA
9 11 (5.29%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 9 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.54%) LDAP
2 23 (11.06%) Regular Expression
3 19 (9.13%) XMPP
4 8 (3.85%) JSON
5 7 (3.37%) JSON Schema
5 7 (3.37%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.37%) XML
6 6 (2.88%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (2.88%) React
7 5 (2.40%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.40%) gRPC
7 5 (2.40%) Material-UI
7 5 (2.40%) Node.js
7 5 (2.40%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.40%) REST
7 5 (2.40%) Spring
7 5 (2.40%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.40%) Swagger
8 4 (1.92%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.10%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.73%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.73%) PKI
4 8 (3.85%) Social Media
5 7 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.37%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.40%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.40%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.40%) Replication
7 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.92%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.92%) Web3
9 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 208 (100.00%) Linux
2 79 (37.98%) Windows
3 68 (32.69%) Windows Server
4 58 (27.88%) CentOS
5 30 (14.42%) Unix
6 27 (12.98%) Ubuntu
7 20 (9.62%) AIX
8 17 (8.17%) Debian
9 12 (5.77%) Rocky
9 12 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (5.29%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.40%) CoreOS
11 5 (2.40%) OpenVMS
11 5 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (1.92%) Solaris
13 3 (1.44%) VMS
14 2 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.06%) DevOps
2 60 (28.85%) CI/CD
3 42 (20.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (20.19%) ITIL
4 39 (18.75%) High Availability
4 39 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 39 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (17.79%) SIEM
6 36 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (15.87%) Configuration Management
8 32 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 31 (14.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (12.98%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (11.54%) Agile
14 23 (11.06%) Validation
15 22 (10.58%) Microservices
16 21 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 21 (10.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 64 (30.77%) Python
2 60 (28.85%) Bash
3 36 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 30 (14.42%) SQL
5 27 (12.98%) Shell Script
6 20 (9.62%) Java
7 19 (9.13%) Korn
8 12 (5.77%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.85%) PHP
10 4 (1.92%) Perl
11 2 (0.96%) C
12 1 (0.48%) C#
12 1 (0.48%) C++
12 1 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 91 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 63 (30.29%) DV Cleared
3 35 (16.83%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.58%) Degree
5 12 (5.77%) RHCSA
6 9 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.88%) RHCE
9 5 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.40%) CCSP
9 5 (2.40%) CISM
9 5 (2.40%) CISSP
10 4 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.92%) Postgraduate
11 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.44%) CCNA
11 3 (1.44%) Dell Certification
11 3 (1.44%) MCSA
11 3 (1.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.88%) NIST
2 5 (2.40%) GDPR
2 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.40%) SLA
3 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 62 (29.81%) Docker
2 55 (26.44%) Active Directory
3 36 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (17.31%) vSphere
4 14 (6.73%) Hyper-V
5 13 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (3.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 6 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.40%) KVM
9 5 (2.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.96%) Samba
10 2 (0.96%) Xen
11 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (34.62%) Ansible
1 72 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 60 (28.85%) Terraform
3 31 (14.90%) Puppet
4 27 (12.98%) Nagios
5 13 (6.25%) Data Guard
6 12 (5.77%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (5.29%) ZABBIX
8 9 (4.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (3.85%) Podman
10 7 (3.37%) Grafana
11 5 (2.40%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.40%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.40%) SCVMM
11 5 (2.40%) WSUS
12 4 (1.92%) Argo
12 4 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.96%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.96%) Rancher
Vendors
1 129 (62.02%) Red Hat
2 71 (34.13%) VMware
3 46 (22.12%) Microsoft
4 23 (11.06%) Oracle
5 22 (10.58%) McAfee
6 14 (6.73%) Splunk
7 13 (6.25%) IBM
8 12 (5.77%) NetApp
9 11 (5.29%) Dell
10 9 (4.33%) Citrix
11 8 (3.85%) ServiceNow
11 8 (3.85%) SolarWinds
12 6 (2.88%) Google
13 5 (2.40%) CyberArk
13 5 (2.40%) Ivanti
13 5 (2.40%) Qualys
13 5 (2.40%) Rapid7
13 5 (2.40%) SaltStack
13 5 (2.40%) Veeam
13 5 (2.40%) Veracode