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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 499 566
Rank change year-on-year -67 +67 -54
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 190 180 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.17% 2.64% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 155 135 265
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -12.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £96,250 £100,889
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £63,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +21.43% +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 5,994 6,813 13,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.17% 14.23% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,510 4,525 10,548
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £26,030
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -7.61% -12.38%
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 5 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 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 5 July 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 -47 175 £67,500 -3.57% 59
UK excluding London -39 117 £67,500 +5.88% 49
London -33 69 £62,500 -20.38% 17
South East -22 53 £67,500 +10.66% 13
North of England -27 28 £57,000 -12.31% 10
Work from Home -41 25 £70,000 - 16
North West +7 24 £47,500 -36.56% 8
South West -52 16 £75,000 +20.00% 12
Scotland +17 10 £46,000 - 7
Midlands -25 6 £75,000 +30.43% 4
East Midlands -24 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
East of England -21 3 £56,250 -2.17% 3
Yorkshire -39 2 £97,500 +50.00% 2
North East -43 2 £97,500 +77.27%
West Midlands -20 1 - - 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.79%) Apache
3 8 (4.21%) Confluence
4 7 (3.68%) SharePoint
5 6 (3.16%) Apache Spark
6 5 (2.63%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.58%) CMS
7 3 (1.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.26%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.42%) AWS
2 42 (22.11%) Azure
3 13 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (6.32%) GitHub
5 9 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.21%) IaaS
6 8 (4.21%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.21%) Serverless
7 7 (3.68%) Azure Stack
7 7 (3.68%) GCP
7 7 (3.68%) SaaS
8 6 (3.16%) Datadog
9 5 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.58%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (1.58%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (28.95%) DNS
2 35 (18.42%) Firewall
3 32 (16.84%) SAN
4 23 (12.11%) TCP/IP
5 20 (10.53%) LAN
6 16 (8.42%) HTTP
7 14 (7.37%) Wireshark
8 11 (5.79%) WAN
9 10 (5.26%) iSCSI
9 10 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (4.74%) NAS
11 8 (4.21%) NetScaler
12 6 (3.16%) AMQP
12 6 (3.16%) ATM
12 6 (3.16%) Multicast
12 6 (3.16%) tcpdump
13 5 (2.63%) DHCP
14 4 (2.11%) VSAN
15 3 (1.58%) Kerberos
15 3 (1.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 10 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.74%) MySQL
4 8 (4.21%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.16%) Big Data
6 6 (3.16%) Cloudera CDH
6 6 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.53%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.53%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 30 (15.79%) Git
2 22 (11.58%) GitLab
3 15 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 13 (6.84%) JIRA
5 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) git-flow
6 1 (0.53%) Maven
6 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.53%) TestRail
General
1 71 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.95%) Finance
3 29 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.05%) Banking
5 16 (8.42%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.16%) Automotive
8 6 (3.16%) Spanish Language
9 5 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.11%) Front Office
10 4 (2.11%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Military
12 2 (1.05%) Advertising
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
12 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.53%) Law
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (15.26%) Senior
2 28 (14.74%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (12.63%) Administrator
4 20 (10.53%) Applications Architect
4 20 (10.53%) Architect
4 20 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
5 16 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.89%) Support Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Security Architect
8 13 (6.84%) Lead
9 12 (6.32%) Linux Support
9 12 (6.32%) Linux Support Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) DBA
10 11 (5.79%) Linux Administrator
11 10 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (5.26%) Senior DBA
11 10 (5.26%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.58%) Regular Expression
2 21 (11.05%) LDAP
3 18 (9.47%) XMPP
4 9 (4.74%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.68%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.68%) REST
6 6 (3.16%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.16%) gRPC
6 6 (3.16%) JSON
6 6 (3.16%) JSON Schema
6 6 (3.16%) Material-UI
6 6 (3.16%) Node.js
6 6 (3.16%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.16%) React
6 6 (3.16%) Spring
6 6 (3.16%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.16%) Swagger
6 6 (3.16%) XML
7 5 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 22 (11.58%) Data Centre
3 17 (8.95%) PKI
4 14 (7.37%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.63%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (2.63%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.63%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.11%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.11%) Replication
7 4 (2.11%) Web3
8 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.58%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.05%) Clustering
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 190 (100.00%) Linux
2 74 (38.95%) Windows
3 64 (33.68%) Windows Server
4 50 (26.32%) CentOS
5 26 (13.68%) Ubuntu
6 25 (13.16%) Unix
7 15 (7.89%) AIX
8 14 (7.37%) Debian
9 11 (5.79%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (5.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.63%) OpenVMS
11 4 (2.11%) CoreOS
11 4 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.58%) Rocky
12 3 (1.58%) Solaris
12 3 (1.58%) VMS
13 2 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.11%) DevOps
2 47 (24.74%) CI/CD
2 47 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (21.58%) SIEM
4 35 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (17.89%) High Availability
5 34 (17.89%) ITIL
6 30 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (14.74%) Configuration Management
8 27 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (13.16%) Validation
11 24 (12.63%) Agile
12 23 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (12.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 23 (12.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (11.05%) Containerisation
15 18 (9.47%) Observability
16 17 (8.95%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.53%) Python
2 53 (27.89%) Bash
3 33 (17.37%) SQL
4 31 (16.32%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 17 (8.95%) Korn
7 16 (8.42%) Java
8 15 (7.89%) PHP
9 10 (5.26%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.21%) JavaScript
10 8 (4.21%) Perl
11 2 (1.05%) C
12 1 (0.53%) C++
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 75 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 52 (27.37%) DV Cleared
3 25 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 24 (12.63%) Degree
5 12 (6.32%) RHCSA
6 10 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.11%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.11%) RHCE
10 3 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.58%) CCNA
10 3 (1.58%) CCSP
10 3 (1.58%) CISM
10 3 (1.58%) CISSP
10 3 (1.58%) MCSE
11 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.05%) Dell Certification
11 2 (1.05%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.63%) SLA
2 4 (2.11%) NIST
3 3 (1.58%) GDPR
3 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (27.37%) Active Directory
2 51 (26.84%) Docker
3 41 (21.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (19.47%) vSphere
5 12 (6.32%) Hyper-V
6 11 (5.79%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (4.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (3.68%) KVM
9 6 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.05%) Samba
11 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (34.21%) Kubernetes
2 55 (28.95%) Ansible
3 51 (26.84%) Terraform
4 28 (14.74%) Nagios
4 28 (14.74%) Puppet
5 11 (5.79%) Data Guard
6 10 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (4.74%) WSUS
8 8 (4.21%) Grafana
9 7 (3.68%) Podman
9 7 (3.68%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (3.16%) ZABBIX
11 5 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (2.11%) Argo
12 4 (2.11%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (2.11%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.11%) Prometheus
12 4 (2.11%) SCVMM
13 1 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 116 (61.05%) Red Hat
2 74 (38.95%) VMware
3 43 (22.63%) Microsoft
4 25 (13.16%) McAfee
5 17 (8.95%) Oracle
6 14 (7.37%) Splunk
7 10 (5.26%) Dell
7 10 (5.26%) IBM
7 10 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 9 (4.74%) NetApp
9 8 (4.21%) Citrix
10 7 (3.68%) Google
11 6 (3.16%) SaltStack
11 6 (3.16%) ServiceNow
12 4 (2.11%) Veeam
13 3 (1.58%) CyberArk
13 3 (1.58%) Ivanti
13 3 (1.58%) Qualys
13 3 (1.58%) Rapid7
13 3 (1.58%) Veracode