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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 483 427
Rank change year-on-year -4 -56 +95
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 163 263 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.39% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.88% 2.99% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 104 174 249
10th Percentile £46,163 £40,000 £42,300
25th Percentile £53,438 £45,313 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +3.91% +8.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +2.38%

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 5,656 8,798 9,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.28% 13.00% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,029 5,138 7,407
10th Percentile £26,875 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +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 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 14 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 6 November 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 +7 154 £70,000 +6.93% 138
London +36 82 £85,000 - 83
UK excluding London -6 77 £57,500 - 93
Work from Home +13 56 £80,000 +28.00% 55
South East +16 37 £64,750 +43.89% 56
East of England +28 12 £43,000 -24.23% 6
North of England -1 8 £65,000 -0.71% 5
Midlands +47 7 £57,500 +43.75% 4
South West -2 7 £56,250 -25.00% 12
Scotland -3 7 £53,750 -38.57% 4
East Midlands +23 6 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Yorkshire +7 5 £65,000 -0.71%
North West +27 3 £60,000 -8.35% 5
West Midlands +50 1 £52,500 -19.80% 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 24 (14.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (12.27%) WebSphere
3 19 (11.66%) Tomcat
4 16 (9.82%) WebSphere Application Server
5 15 (9.20%) Apache
6 3 (1.84%) Confluence
6 3 (1.84%) JBoss
6 3 (1.84%) Skype for Business
7 2 (1.23%) IIS
7 2 (1.23%) WildFly
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 64 (39.26%) AWS
2 36 (22.09%) Azure
3 22 (13.50%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (12.88%) GitHub
5 12 (7.36%) OpenShift
6 11 (6.75%) Cohesity
7 9 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.91%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.91%) Serverless
9 7 (4.29%) Route 53
10 6 (3.68%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.07%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.07%) SaaS
12 4 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.18%) Firewall
2 23 (14.11%) SAN
3 17 (10.43%) LAN
3 17 (10.43%) SSL
3 17 (10.43%) TCP/IP
4 16 (9.82%) WAN
5 15 (9.20%) DNS
6 12 (7.36%) Fibre Channel
6 12 (7.36%) Remote Desktop
7 11 (6.75%) iSCSI
8 10 (6.13%) DHCP
9 7 (4.29%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (4.29%) VSAN
10 6 (3.68%) Multicast
11 3 (1.84%) Skype
11 3 (1.84%) VPN
12 2 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.23%) HTTP
12 2 (1.23%) Network Security
12 2 (1.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (15.95%) SQL Server
3 18 (11.04%) DB2
4 14 (8.59%) MySQL
5 7 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.23%) Big Data
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.61%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 36 (22.09%) Git
2 15 (9.20%) GitLab
3 10 (6.13%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.07%) JIRA
5 3 (1.84%) Ant
5 3 (1.84%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.84%) Maven
5 3 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) MSI
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (30.67%) Finance
2 44 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.11%) Banking
4 16 (9.82%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.13%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.07%) Front Office
6 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.45%) Law
7 4 (2.45%) Marketing
8 3 (1.84%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.23%) Advertising
9 2 (1.23%) Electronics
9 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Military
9 2 (1.23%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (27.61%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (20.86%) Administrator
3 25 (15.34%) Linux Support
4 20 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (11.04%) Linux Administrator
6 17 (10.43%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.43%) Cisco Engineer
6 17 (10.43%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (9.82%) Senior
7 16 (9.82%) Support Engineer
8 14 (8.59%) Linux Support Engineer
9 13 (7.98%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.98%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 13 (7.98%) VMware Engineer
10 12 (7.36%) Infrastructure Support
11 10 (6.13%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (6.13%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (6.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (6.13%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.82%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (9.82%) LDAP
1 16 (9.82%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (3.68%) Kafka
2 6 (3.68%) Middleware
3 5 (3.07%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (3.07%) REST
4 4 (2.45%) .NET
5 3 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.84%) LAMP
6 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.61%) gRPC
6 1 (0.61%) Material-UI
6 1 (0.61%) Node.js
6 1 (0.61%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.61%) React
6 1 (0.61%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.02%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.27%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (11.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.36%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.52%) Driving Licence
6 8 (4.91%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.07%) Derivative
7 5 (3.07%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.84%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.84%) Clustering
8 3 (1.84%) PKI
8 3 (1.84%) Replication
8 3 (1.84%) RSA SecurID
9 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.23%) Video on Demand
9 2 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 163 (100.00%) Linux
2 80 (49.08%) Windows
3 37 (22.70%) CentOS
4 34 (20.86%) Unix
5 29 (17.79%) Windows Server
6 25 (15.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (9.20%) Solaris
8 13 (7.98%) Ubuntu
9 11 (6.75%) Debian
10 10 (6.13%) Windows 10
11 8 (4.91%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (3.07%) HPUX
12 5 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (2.45%) AIX
13 4 (2.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (1.84%) CoreOS
15 2 (1.23%) VMS
15 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.61%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.13%) ITIL
2 49 (30.06%) DevOps
3 31 (19.02%) Containerisation
4 30 (18.40%) Root Cause Analysis
5 22 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (12.88%) Change Management
7 19 (11.66%) Release Management
8 18 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (10.43%) Incident Response
9 17 (10.43%) Time Management
10 16 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (9.82%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (8.59%) Low Latency
12 13 (7.98%) Incident Management
13 12 (7.36%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.36%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (6.75%) Mentoring
15 10 (6.13%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 69 (42.33%) Python
2 52 (31.90%) Bash
3 26 (15.95%) PowerShell
4 19 (11.66%) Korn
5 10 (6.13%) PHP
5 10 (6.13%) SQL
6 8 (4.91%) Java
7 6 (3.68%) C++
7 6 (3.68%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.45%) Perl
9 3 (1.84%) Groovy
10 2 (1.23%) C
11 1 (0.61%) C#
11 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (22.09%) Degree
1 36 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.72%) DV Cleared
3 22 (13.50%) AWS Certification
4 16 (9.82%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (9.20%) SC Cleared
6 12 (7.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (6.75%) CCNA
7 11 (6.75%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (6.13%) MCSE
8 10 (6.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (4.29%) RHCE
9 7 (4.29%) RHCSA
10 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (1.23%) Dell Certification
13 2 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.18%) SLA
2 9 (5.52%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (28.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (18.40%) Active Directory
3 24 (14.72%) Docker
3 24 (14.72%) vSphere
4 17 (10.43%) NFS
5 11 (6.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 11 (6.75%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.23%) KVM
8 2 (1.23%) pfSense
8 2 (1.23%) Postfix
8 2 (1.23%) Samba
9 1 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.61%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (42.94%) Ansible
2 53 (32.52%) Kubernetes
3 38 (23.31%) Terraform
4 13 (7.98%) Puppet
5 12 (7.36%) WSUS
6 9 (5.52%) Grafana
7 8 (4.91%) SCOM
8 6 (3.68%) Nagios
8 6 (3.68%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (3.68%) SCCM
9 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.45%) Podman
10 4 (2.45%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.84%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.84%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.61%) WMI
Vendors
1 87 (53.37%) Red Hat
2 71 (43.56%) VMware
3 40 (24.54%) Microsoft
4 36 (22.09%) Cisco
5 23 (14.11%) Commvault
5 23 (14.11%) IBM
6 19 (11.66%) Oracle
7 16 (9.82%) Splunk
8 15 (9.20%) Dell
9 14 (8.59%) Pure Storage
10 11 (6.75%) ServiceNow
11 8 (4.91%) NetApp
12 5 (3.07%) HP
13 3 (1.84%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.84%) McAfee
14 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
14 2 (1.23%) Fujitsu
14 2 (1.23%) SolarWinds
14 2 (1.23%) Veeam
14 2 (1.23%) Zerto