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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 479 546
Rank change year-on-year -79 +67 -47
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 153 164 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.40% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.82% 2.68% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 115 122 252
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,125 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £96,125 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +23.81% -

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 5,427 6,129 13,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.40% 14.88% 14.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,969 4,379 10,938
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,756
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +1.18% -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 14 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 11 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 14 April 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 -74 137 £60,000 -14.29% 68
UK excluding London -99 73 £58,500 -10.00% 49
London -11 72 £60,000 -22.58% 23
South East -22 41 £67,500 +14.89% 14
Work from Home -20 26 £70,000 - 28
North West -21 14 £57,000 -23.87% 8
North of England -58 14 £57,000 -18.57% 15
Scotland -16 8 £46,000 +5.14% 1
South West -49 8 £55,000 -23.60% 14
East of England -42 1 £70,000 +14.29% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 17 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.50%) Apache
3 8 (5.23%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.58%) Confluence
4 7 (4.58%) Tomcat
5 6 (3.92%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.27%) IIS
7 4 (2.61%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.96%) CMS
8 3 (1.96%) WordPress
9 2 (1.31%) nginx
9 2 (1.31%) WebSphere
9 2 (1.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.14%) AWS
2 30 (19.61%) Azure
3 15 (9.80%) OpenShift
4 14 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (9.15%) SaaS
5 9 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (5.88%) IaaS
6 8 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.23%) GCP
6 8 (5.23%) Serverless
7 6 (3.92%) Datadog
7 6 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.27%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (1.96%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.96%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.96%) GitHub
9 3 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 45 (29.41%) DNS
2 22 (14.38%) SAN
2 22 (14.38%) TCP/IP
3 21 (13.73%) Firewall
4 18 (11.76%) Multicast
5 16 (10.46%) LAN
6 15 (9.80%) HTTP
7 11 (7.19%) WAN
7 11 (7.19%) Wireshark
8 7 (4.58%) ATM
8 7 (4.58%) DHCP
8 7 (4.58%) NAS
8 7 (4.58%) tcpdump
9 6 (3.92%) AMQP
9 6 (3.92%) iSCSI
9 6 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (2.61%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.61%) VSAN
11 3 (1.96%) SNMP
11 3 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.88%) MySQL
4 7 (4.58%) Big Data
4 7 (4.58%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.92%) Cloudera CDH
5 6 (3.92%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.96%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.31%) DB2
10 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (10.46%) Git
2 11 (7.19%) GitLab
2 11 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.54%) JIRA
4 9 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.96%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.96%) TestRail
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.88%) Finance
3 15 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.50%) Aerospace
4 13 (8.50%) Front Office
5 12 (7.84%) Banking
6 10 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (4.58%) Automotive
8 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.92%) Spanish Language
9 4 (2.61%) Advertising
9 4 (2.61%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Retail
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (20.92%) Linux Engineer
2 27 (17.65%) Administrator
3 23 (15.03%) Linux Support
4 20 (13.07%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (13.07%) Support Engineer
5 18 (11.76%) Senior
6 17 (11.11%) Linux Support Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Developer
7 13 (8.50%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (7.84%) C++ Developer
9 10 (6.54%) Applications Architect
9 10 (6.54%) Architect
9 10 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.54%) Lead
10 9 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (5.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) Linux Specialist
11 8 (5.23%) Support Specialist
12 7 (4.58%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (4.58%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.50%) LDAP
2 11 (7.19%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (6.54%) Regular Expression
4 7 (4.58%) Middleware
4 7 (4.58%) REST
5 6 (3.92%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.92%) gRPC
5 6 (3.92%) Kafka
5 6 (3.92%) Material-UI
5 6 (3.92%) Node.js
5 6 (3.92%) OpenAPI
5 6 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.92%) React
5 6 (3.92%) Spring
5 6 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.92%) Swagger
5 6 (3.92%) XMPP
6 5 (3.27%) WebSockets
7 4 (2.61%) web3js
8 3 (1.96%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.46%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.15%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.19%) Derivative
3 11 (7.19%) PKI
4 10 (6.54%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.88%) Clustering
6 6 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.61%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.61%) Replication
7 4 (2.61%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.61%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.61%) Web3
8 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.31%) FPGA
9 2 (1.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 153 (100.00%) Linux
2 52 (33.99%) Windows
3 49 (32.03%) CentOS
4 42 (27.45%) Windows Server
5 20 (13.07%) Ubuntu
6 16 (10.46%) Unix
7 11 (7.19%) Debian
8 10 (6.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (3.92%) AIX
10 6 (3.92%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.27%) Solaris
11 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.96%) CoreOS
12 3 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.10%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (24.84%) DevOps
3 29 (18.95%) CI/CD
4 27 (17.65%) Agile
4 27 (17.65%) Configuration Management
4 27 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (16.99%) ITIL
6 23 (15.03%) High Availability
7 22 (14.38%) Containerisation
8 19 (12.42%) SIEM
9 17 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (9.80%) Validation
11 14 (9.15%) Migration
12 13 (8.50%) Low Latency
13 12 (7.84%) Systems Analysis
14 11 (7.19%) Concurrent Programming
14 11 (7.19%) Time Management
14 11 (7.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (41.18%) Python
2 46 (30.07%) Bash
3 30 (19.61%) PowerShell
4 21 (13.73%) SQL
5 19 (12.42%) Perl
6 14 (9.15%) PHP
7 13 (8.50%) Shell Script
8 12 (7.84%) C++
9 10 (6.54%) Java
10 8 (5.23%) Korn
11 6 (3.92%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.31%) C
14 1 (0.65%) Groovy
14 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (28.76%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.26%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) Degree
4 13 (8.50%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.23%) RHCSA
6 7 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.61%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.61%) RHCE
8 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.65%) CCSP
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CISM
9 1 (0.65%) CISSP
9 1 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.88%) SLA
2 2 (1.31%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (28.76%) Docker
2 42 (27.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (23.53%) Active Directory
4 23 (15.03%) vSphere
5 8 (5.23%) KVM
6 6 (3.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (3.27%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.61%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.31%) Samba
11 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 58 (37.91%) Ansible
2 55 (35.95%) Kubernetes
3 27 (17.65%) Terraform
4 22 (14.38%) Puppet
5 16 (10.46%) Nagios
6 12 (7.84%) Grafana
7 7 (4.58%) WSUS
8 6 (3.92%) Data Guard
9 5 (3.27%) Podman
9 5 (3.27%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.27%) Prometheus
9 5 (3.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.61%) Argo
10 4 (2.61%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (2.61%) SCVMM
10 4 (2.61%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.65%) Graylog
13 1 (0.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 93 (60.78%) Red Hat
2 65 (42.48%) VMware
3 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.76%) Oracle
4 16 (10.46%) McAfee
5 11 (7.19%) Splunk
6 8 (5.23%) Dell
7 7 (4.58%) Google
8 6 (3.92%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.27%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.27%) IBM
9 5 (3.27%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.27%) Symantec
10 4 (2.61%) Citrix
10 4 (2.61%) Mirantis
10 4 (2.61%) NetApp
10 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.96%) Pure Storage
12 2 (1.31%) D-Link
12 2 (1.31%) Dynatrace