Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 507 512
Rank change year-on-year -49 +5 +104
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 181 430 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.44% 3.15% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 136 269 274
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% +8.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,695 £118,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% +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 7,418 13,664 14,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 13.25% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,647 10,218 10,069
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,043 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -12.38% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 -45 164 £70,000 +21.74% 114
UK excluding London -24 97 £65,000 +23.81% 84
London +71 76 £80,000 -5.88% 44
Work from Home -22 57 £70,000 +16.67% 92
South East +44 42 £61,500 +36.67% 29
North of England +20 23 £65,000 - 14
Yorkshire +36 13 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Midlands +66 10 £57,500 +43.75% 12
Scotland +84 8 £42,500 -51.43% 7
North West -12 8 £74,870 +14.37% 6
East Midlands +38 6 £57,500 +43.75% 6
East of England +37 6 £66,250 +27.40% 8
West Midlands +66 4 £65,000 -0.71% 5
Wales +26 4 £47,500 -5.00%
South West -14 4 £62,500 +13.64% 15
North East +42 2 £55,000 -15.98% 1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (9.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (7.73%) Apache
3 6 (3.31%) Confluence
4 2 (1.10%) JBoss
4 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.10%) WinCC
5 1 (0.55%) Drupal
5 1 (0.55%) nginx
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (28.73%) AWS
2 51 (28.18%) Azure
3 20 (11.05%) GitHub
4 19 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (5.52%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.42%) PaaS
8 6 (3.31%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.21%) GCP
11 3 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.66%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.10%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 2 (1.10%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.10%) IaaS
12 2 (1.10%) SaaS
12 2 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.92%) Firewall
2 16 (8.84%) DNS
2 16 (8.84%) SAN
2 16 (8.84%) TCP/IP
3 13 (7.18%) DHCP
4 12 (6.63%) LAN
5 10 (5.52%) Remote Desktop
6 9 (4.97%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (4.97%) iSCSI
6 9 (4.97%) WAN
7 6 (3.31%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (3.31%) VPN
8 4 (2.21%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (2.21%) NAS
8 4 (2.21%) VLAN
8 4 (2.21%) VoIP
9 3 (1.66%) HTTP
9 3 (1.66%) Telnet
10 2 (1.10%) SSL
11 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.63%) MySQL
2 12 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.87%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.21%) MariaDB
4 4 (2.21%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.10%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.55%) DB2
6 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (20.99%) Git
2 10 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.97%) GitLab
4 8 (4.42%) JIRA
5 5 (2.76%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.21%) Subversion
7 2 (1.10%) Ant
7 2 (1.10%) Maven
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.55%) MSI
8 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 57 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 54 (29.83%) Finance
3 28 (15.47%) Banking
4 16 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.31%) Law
6 6 (3.31%) Military
7 5 (2.76%) Electronics
8 4 (2.21%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.21%) Marketing
9 3 (1.66%) Retail
9 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Front Office
11 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (22.65%) Administrator
2 33 (18.23%) Senior
3 31 (17.13%) Systems Administrator
4 27 (14.92%) Linux Administrator
5 24 (13.26%) Linux Engineer
6 23 (12.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 17 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (8.29%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (6.63%) Lead
11 12 (6.63%) Security Engineer
12 11 (6.08%) Integration Engineer
13 9 (4.97%) Cisco Engineer
13 9 (4.97%) IT Administrator
13 9 (4.97%) IT Support
13 9 (4.97%) Senior Linux Engineer
14 7 (3.87%) Linux Support
14 7 (3.87%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.42%) Middleware
2 6 (3.31%) REST
3 4 (2.21%) .NET
3 4 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.66%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.66%) Kafka
4 3 (1.66%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (1.66%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.10%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.10%) LAMP
6 1 (0.55%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.55%) CSS
6 1 (0.55%) HTML
6 1 (0.55%) JSON
6 1 (0.55%) Laravel
6 1 (0.55%) Node.js
6 1 (0.55%) React
6 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (12.15%) Management Information System
3 19 (10.50%) Cloud Native
4 14 (7.73%) Data Centre
5 11 (6.08%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.08%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (4.97%) Driving Licence
7 8 (4.42%) Clustering
7 8 (4.42%) Public Cloud
7 8 (4.42%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.66%) Equities
10 3 (1.66%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.66%) FPGA
10 3 (1.66%) NVMe
10 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.66%) Verilog
10 3 (1.66%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 181 (100.00%) Linux
2 65 (35.91%) Windows
3 35 (19.34%) CentOS
4 32 (17.68%) Windows Server
5 18 (9.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (9.39%) Unix
7 15 (8.29%) Ubuntu
8 11 (6.08%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (5.52%) Windows 10
10 9 (4.97%) Solaris
11 5 (2.76%) HPUX
12 4 (2.21%) Rocky
12 4 (2.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (1.66%) AIX
13 3 (1.66%) SUSE
13 3 (1.66%) VMS
14 2 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (1.10%) CoreOS
14 2 (1.10%) Debian
14 2 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (41.99%) DevOps
2 40 (22.10%) ITIL
3 36 (19.89%) Containerisation
4 32 (17.68%) CI/CD
5 31 (17.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (12.15%) Root Cause Analysis
9 21 (11.60%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (9.39%) Mentoring
11 17 (9.39%) Roadmaps
12 16 (8.84%) Agile
12 16 (8.84%) Computer Science
12 16 (8.84%) Incident Management
13 14 (7.73%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (7.73%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (7.18%) Incident Response
15 12 (6.63%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 54 (29.83%) Python
2 52 (28.73%) Bash
3 30 (16.57%) PowerShell
4 19 (10.50%) SQL
5 12 (6.63%) PHP
6 10 (5.52%) Korn
7 7 (3.87%) Java
7 7 (3.87%) Perl
8 6 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.66%) C++
9 3 (1.66%) SystemVerilog
9 3 (1.66%) Tcl
10 2 (1.10%) C#
10 2 (1.10%) Groovy
10 2 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.10%) VB
11 1 (0.55%) COBOL
11 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.55%) R
11 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (17.68%) Degree
2 31 (17.13%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.84%) DV Cleared
4 15 (8.29%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.63%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (6.08%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (6.08%) RHCSA
7 10 (5.52%) CCNA
7 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.52%) MCSE
8 9 (4.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (4.42%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (2.21%) RHCE
11 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.10%) Dell Certification
12 2 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.10%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) QA
2 4 (2.21%) Def Stans
2 4 (2.21%) GDPR
2 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.21%) SLA
3 3 (1.66%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.66%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (24.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (16.02%) Docker
3 23 (12.71%) Active Directory
4 22 (12.15%) vSphere
5 17 (9.39%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (8.84%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (5.52%) Hyper-V
8 9 (4.97%) NFS
9 8 (4.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 6 (3.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (1.10%) Firmware
13 2 (1.10%) KVM
13 2 (1.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 82 (45.30%) Ansible
2 50 (27.62%) Kubernetes
2 50 (27.62%) Terraform
3 17 (9.39%) Grafana
4 16 (8.84%) Puppet
5 12 (6.63%) Nagios
6 11 (6.08%) WSUS
7 10 (5.52%) Prometheus
8 9 (4.97%) SCOM
9 8 (4.42%) SCCM
10 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.66%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.66%) Proxmox
14 2 (1.10%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (1.10%) Functional Safety
14 2 (1.10%) Packer
14 2 (1.10%) Podman
14 2 (1.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 98 (54.14%) Red Hat
2 75 (41.44%) VMware
3 41 (22.65%) Microsoft
4 35 (19.34%) Cisco
5 24 (13.26%) Oracle
6 16 (8.84%) Commvault
7 14 (7.73%) Splunk
8 13 (7.18%) Dell
9 10 (5.52%) Pure Storage
10 8 (4.42%) IBM
10 8 (4.42%) NetApp
10 8 (4.42%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.87%) Atlassian
12 6 (3.31%) Citrix
12 6 (3.31%) Veritas
13 5 (2.76%) Juniper
13 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.76%) Symantec
14 4 (2.21%) EMC
14 4 (2.21%) Palo Alto