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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 506 521
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -56
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 127 198 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.51% 2.60% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 85 110 233
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,585 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +5.26%

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 5,050 7,616 11,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.73% 15.02% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,683 4,261 9,501
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £46,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.20% +9.41% -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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -10 116 £57,500 -11.54% 39
London +55 79 £75,000 -3.23% 22
UK excluding London -42 39 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Work from Home +19 36 £85,000 +30.77% 18
South East -2 15 £48,750 -15.22% 10
South West -10 9 £60,000 -16.66% 6
North West +22 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
North of England -16 8 £55,000 - 5
East of England +4 4 £42,500 -26.09%
Scotland -21 3 £65,000 +48.57% 2
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 (14.96%) Tomcat
2 15 (11.81%) WebSphere
3 13 (10.24%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (9.45%) Apache
5 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (4.72%) SharePoint
6 5 (3.94%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.94%) Confluence
6 5 (3.94%) IIS
7 3 (2.36%) CMS
7 3 (2.36%) WordPress
8 2 (1.57%) nginx
9 1 (0.79%) JBoss
9 1 (0.79%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.01%) AWS
2 19 (14.96%) Azure
3 18 (14.17%) OpenShift
4 13 (10.24%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.87%) SaaS
6 10 (7.87%) Serverless
7 6 (4.72%) GCP
8 5 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.94%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.94%) Route 53
9 4 (3.15%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (3.15%) Cohesity
9 4 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.36%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (2.36%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.36%) GitHub
11 2 (1.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (20.47%) DNS
2 17 (13.39%) TCP/IP
3 15 (11.81%) LAN
4 14 (11.02%) Multicast
4 14 (11.02%) SSL
5 13 (10.24%) SAN
6 12 (9.45%) WAN
7 10 (7.87%) Firewall
8 9 (7.09%) HTTP
9 8 (6.30%) DHCP
10 7 (5.51%) VSAN
11 5 (3.94%) AMQP
12 4 (3.15%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (1.57%) NAS
13 2 (1.57%) SNMP
13 2 (1.57%) tcpdump
13 2 (1.57%) VoIP
13 2 (1.57%) VPN
13 2 (1.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.81%) DB2
3 14 (11.02%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.72%) Big Data
6 5 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.94%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.94%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.94%) MySQL
7 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.36%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.79%) Power BI
9 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.79%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.79%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (10.24%) Git
2 10 (7.87%) GitLab
2 10 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.72%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.72%) JIRA
4 5 (3.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (2.36%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.36%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.36%) TestRail
6 1 (0.79%) Ant
6 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (37.80%) Finance
2 25 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.54%) Banking
4 13 (10.24%) Front Office
5 9 (7.09%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.51%) Aerospace
8 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.36%) Advertising
11 2 (1.57%) Automotive
11 2 (1.57%) Electronics
11 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.57%) Military
12 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.79%) Retail
12 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (25.98%) Linux Support
2 32 (25.20%) Administrator
3 30 (23.62%) Linux Engineer
4 23 (18.11%) Linux Administrator
5 22 (17.32%) Support Engineer
6 19 (14.96%) Linux Support Engineer
7 15 (11.81%) Infrastructure Support
8 14 (11.02%) Applications Support
8 14 (11.02%) Unix Support
9 13 (10.24%) C++ Developer
9 13 (10.24%) Developer
10 12 (9.45%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (7.09%) Senior
12 8 (6.30%) Linux Specialist
12 8 (6.30%) Support Specialist
13 7 (5.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
14 6 (4.72%) DBA
15 5 (3.94%) 3rd Line Support
15 5 (3.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) LDAP
2 13 (10.24%) LAPP Stack
2 13 (10.24%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (9.45%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.30%) Middleware
5 7 (5.51%) Kafka
6 6 (4.72%) REST
7 5 (3.94%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.94%) gRPC
7 5 (3.94%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.94%) Node.js
7 5 (3.94%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.94%) React
7 5 (3.94%) Spring
7 5 (3.94%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.94%) Swagger
8 4 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.36%) LAMP
9 3 (2.36%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (11.02%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.45%) Derivative
4 9 (7.09%) Clustering
4 9 (7.09%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.94%) PKI
5 5 (3.94%) Replication
6 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.15%) Video on Demand
6 4 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.57%) FPGA
9 1 (0.79%) Equities
9 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 127 (100.00%) Linux
2 42 (33.07%) Windows
3 39 (30.71%) CentOS
4 31 (24.41%) Unix
5 21 (16.54%) Windows Server
6 15 (11.81%) Ubuntu
7 12 (9.45%) Debian
8 11 (8.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (8.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (5.51%) Solaris
10 5 (3.94%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (3.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.15%) AIX
11 4 (3.15%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.62%) ITIL
2 29 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (16.54%) Change Management
3 21 (16.54%) DevOps
4 18 (14.17%) Agile
4 18 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (13.39%) Containerisation
6 16 (12.60%) Configuration Management
7 14 (11.02%) Low Latency
7 14 (11.02%) Release Management
7 14 (11.02%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (9.45%) Concurrent Programming
8 12 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (9.45%) SOA
8 12 (9.45%) Systems Analysis
8 12 (9.45%) Unit Testing
9 11 (8.66%) CI/CD
9 11 (8.66%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (53.54%) Python
2 43 (33.86%) Bash
3 20 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 15 (11.81%) Perl
4 15 (11.81%) SQL
5 14 (11.02%) C++
6 9 (7.09%) PHP
6 9 (7.09%) Shell Script
7 8 (6.30%) Java
8 7 (5.51%) Korn
9 5 (3.94%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.79%) C
11 1 (0.79%) C#
11 1 (0.79%) Groovy
11 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) Degree
3 19 (14.96%) AWS Certification
4 18 (14.17%) ITIL Certification
5 17 (13.39%) DV Cleared
6 10 (7.87%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.94%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.36%) RHCE
9 1 (0.79%) CCNA
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.11%) SLA
2 2 (1.57%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.57%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (27.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (14.96%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.96%) Docker
3 9 (7.09%) vSphere
4 6 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.36%) NFS
6 3 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.57%) KVM
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.79%) pfSense
8 1 (0.79%) Postfix
8 1 (0.79%) Samba
8 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (34.65%) Ansible
2 27 (21.26%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.17%) Terraform
4 14 (11.02%) Puppet
5 10 (7.87%) Nagios
6 9 (7.09%) Grafana
7 6 (4.72%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (4.72%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.72%) SCVMM
8 5 (3.94%) WSUS
9 4 (3.15%) Data Guard
9 4 (3.15%) Podman
9 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
9 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.57%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.79%) Graylog
11 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (64.57%) Red Hat
2 41 (32.28%) VMware
3 16 (12.60%) IBM
3 16 (12.60%) Oracle
4 11 (8.66%) McAfee
5 10 (7.87%) ServiceNow
6 8 (6.30%) Splunk
7 6 (4.72%) Cisco
8 5 (3.94%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.94%) Google
8 5 (3.94%) SaltStack
8 5 (3.94%) Symantec
9 4 (3.15%) Commvault
9 4 (3.15%) NetApp
9 4 (3.15%) Pure Storage
10 3 (2.36%) Dell
10 3 (2.36%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.57%) HP
11 2 (1.57%) Microsoft
11 2 (1.57%) Mirantis