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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 508 447
Rank change year-on-year -10 -61 +14
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 136 205 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.38% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.74% 2.55% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 86 112 232
10th Percentile £44,438 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £52,250 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +1.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £100,000
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 4,971 8,025 8,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.19% 15.02% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,643 4,517 7,097
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,769 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,850 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.56% - -

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 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 10 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 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 +14 126 £60,000 -7.69% 31
London +63 81 £85,000 +4.62% 12
Work from Home +46 45 £85,000 +47.83% 13
UK excluding London -39 44 £50,000 -13.04% 29
South East +13 15 £50,000 +11.11% 9
East of England +18 11 £43,500 -24.35% 2
South West -7 9 £55,000 -23.60% 6
North West +29 8 £60,000 +50.00% 2
North of England +11 8 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Scotland -11 2 £65,000 +48.57% 5

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 (16.18%) Tomcat
2 19 (13.97%) WebSphere
3 16 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (8.09%) Apache
5 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.68%) Confluence
6 5 (3.68%) IIS
7 3 (2.21%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.47%) JBoss
8 2 (1.47%) nginx
8 2 (1.47%) WildFly
9 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 54 (39.71%) AWS
2 20 (14.71%) Azure
2 20 (14.71%) OpenShift
3 15 (11.03%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (8.82%) Serverless
6 11 (8.09%) Cohesity
7 10 (7.35%) SaaS
8 8 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.88%) GitHub
9 7 (5.15%) Route 53
10 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (4.41%) GCP
10 6 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (2.21%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.50%) SSL
2 16 (11.76%) DNS
3 15 (11.03%) Firewall
4 14 (10.29%) LAN
4 14 (10.29%) SAN
4 14 (10.29%) TCP/IP
5 13 (9.56%) Multicast
5 13 (9.56%) WAN
6 7 (5.15%) VSAN
7 6 (4.41%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (4.41%) HTTP
8 5 (3.68%) AMQP
8 5 (3.68%) DHCP
9 3 (2.21%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.21%) Skype
9 3 (2.21%) VPN
10 2 (1.47%) PBX
10 2 (1.47%) SNMP
10 2 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.91%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.44%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.24%) DB2
4 8 (5.88%) MySQL
5 7 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.41%) Big Data
7 5 (3.68%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (3.68%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.21%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.74%) Power BI
9 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.74%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.74%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (11.03%) Git
1 15 (11.03%) GitLab
2 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.15%) JIRA
4 6 (4.41%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.21%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.21%) TestRail
7 2 (1.47%) Ant
7 2 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.47%) Maven
7 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (39.71%) Finance
2 26 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.44%) Banking
4 13 (9.56%) Front Office
5 10 (7.35%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.94%) Advertising
10 3 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.47%) Electronics
11 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.47%) Military
12 1 (0.74%) Automotive
12 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (27.21%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (25.00%) Linux Support
3 32 (23.53%) Administrator
4 25 (18.38%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (15.44%) Support Engineer
6 19 (13.97%) Linux Support Engineer
7 17 (12.50%) Applications Support
7 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (11.03%) Unix Support
9 13 (9.56%) C++ Developer
9 13 (9.56%) Developer
9 13 (9.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (7.35%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (6.62%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 9 (6.62%) Linux Specialist
12 9 (6.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 9 (6.62%) Linux/Unix DevOps
13 8 (5.88%) Linux Scripter
13 8 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.24%) LDAP
2 16 (11.76%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (8.82%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.88%) Kafka
5 7 (5.15%) Middleware
6 6 (4.41%) REST
7 5 (3.68%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.68%) gRPC
7 5 (3.68%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.68%) Node.js
7 5 (3.68%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.68%) React
7 5 (3.68%) Spring
7 5 (3.68%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.68%) Swagger
8 3 (2.21%) LAMP
9 1 (0.74%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Management Information System
2 19 (13.97%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.82%) Derivative
4 10 (7.35%) Clustering
5 6 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.41%) Replication
6 5 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.94%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.21%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.21%) PKI
8 3 (2.21%) RSA SecurID
8 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.47%) FPGA
10 1 (0.74%) Equities
10 1 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 136 (100.00%) Linux
2 47 (34.56%) Windows
3 38 (27.94%) Unix
4 37 (27.21%) CentOS
5 19 (13.97%) Windows Server
6 16 (11.76%) Debian
7 15 (11.03%) Ubuntu
8 12 (8.82%) Solaris
8 12 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.47%) AIX
11 2 (1.47%) CoreOS
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.26%) ITIL
2 28 (20.59%) DevOps
3 24 (17.65%) Change Management
3 24 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (16.91%) Containerisation
5 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.24%) Agile
6 18 (13.24%) Release Management
7 17 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (11.76%) Low Latency
9 15 (11.03%) Configuration Management
9 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (11.03%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (8.82%) CI/CD
11 12 (8.82%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (8.82%) Service Management
11 12 (8.82%) SOA
11 12 (8.82%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (54.41%) Python
2 47 (34.56%) Bash
3 21 (15.44%) PowerShell
4 14 (10.29%) C++
4 14 (10.29%) Perl
5 10 (7.35%) Korn
6 9 (6.62%) Java
7 7 (5.15%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.15%) SQL
8 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.68%) PHP
9 2 (1.47%) C
9 2 (1.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) C#
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.85%) Degree
3 22 (16.18%) AWS Certification
3 22 (16.18%) DV Cleared
4 21 (15.44%) ITIL Certification
5 17 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.21%) RHCE
7 3 (2.21%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.47%) CCNA
8 2 (1.47%) CCNP
8 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.74%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.74%) MCSA
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.26%) SLA
2 4 (2.94%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (27.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.71%) Docker
3 17 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 10 (7.35%) vSphere
5 8 (5.88%) NFS
6 5 (3.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (2.94%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (1.47%) pfSense
9 2 (1.47%) Postfix
9 2 (1.47%) Samba
9 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.74%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.74%) KVM
10 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (41.91%) Ansible
2 35 (25.74%) Kubernetes
3 24 (17.65%) Terraform
4 15 (11.03%) Puppet
5 8 (5.88%) Grafana
6 6 (4.41%) Nagios
6 6 (4.41%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.68%) Podman
8 4 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.94%) WSUS
9 3 (2.21%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.21%) SCOM
9 3 (2.21%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.47%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.74%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (64.71%) Red Hat
2 47 (34.56%) VMware
3 18 (13.24%) IBM
4 13 (9.56%) Oracle
5 12 (8.82%) Cisco
6 11 (8.09%) ServiceNow
7 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
7 10 (7.35%) Splunk
8 8 (5.88%) Commvault
8 8 (5.88%) NetApp
9 7 (5.15%) Dell
9 7 (5.15%) Pure Storage
10 6 (4.41%) HP
11 5 (3.68%) Atlassian
11 5 (3.68%) Google
11 5 (3.68%) SaltStack
11 5 (3.68%) Symantec
12 3 (2.21%) McAfee
13 2 (1.47%) Mirantis
14 1 (0.74%) Delphix