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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 476 551
Rank change year-on-year -90 +75 -21
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 164 164 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.04% 2.53% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 129 125 262
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £38,764
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 5,390 6,479 13,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.02% 15.31% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,932 4,380 10,876
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 28 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 28 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 -68 146 £60,000 -14.29% 66
UK excluding London -84 83 £65,000 - 52
London +7 73 £57,500 -25.81% 19
South East -16 47 £67,500 +17.39% 16
Work from Home -35 27 £70,000 - 16
North West -19 16 £56,000 -25.20% 4
North of England -60 16 £56,000 -20.00% 9
Scotland -18 10 £46,000 +5.14% 1
South West -53 8 £60,000 -16.66% 18
East of England -37 1 £70,000 +14.29% 6
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 18 (10.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.32%) Apache
3 8 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.27%) Confluence
5 6 (3.66%) Tomcat
6 5 (3.05%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.05%) IIS
7 4 (2.44%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.83%) CMS
8 3 (1.83%) WordPress
9 2 (1.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.78%) AWS
2 31 (18.90%) Azure
3 14 (8.54%) SaaS
4 13 (7.93%) OpenShift
5 12 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (5.49%) IaaS
6 9 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.27%) GCP
8 7 (4.27%) Serverless
9 6 (3.66%) Datadog
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.44%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.83%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.83%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.83%) GitHub
12 3 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (31.71%) DNS
2 28 (17.07%) SAN
3 27 (16.46%) Firewall
4 23 (14.02%) TCP/IP
5 18 (10.98%) LAN
6 17 (10.37%) HTTP
7 15 (9.15%) Multicast
8 14 (8.54%) Wireshark
9 11 (6.71%) WAN
10 10 (6.10%) NAS
11 7 (4.27%) ATM
11 7 (4.27%) iSCSI
11 7 (4.27%) NetScaler
11 7 (4.27%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (4.27%) tcpdump
12 6 (3.66%) DHCP
13 5 (3.05%) AMQP
14 3 (1.83%) SNMP
14 3 (1.83%) VSAN
15 2 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.49%) MySQL
4 6 (3.66%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.05%) Big Data
5 5 (3.05%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.05%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.83%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.61%) Power BI
8 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.61%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Git
2 12 (7.32%) GitLab
2 12 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.10%) JIRA
4 9 (5.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (4.27%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.83%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.83%) TestRail
7 2 (1.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.61%) git-flow
8 1 (0.61%) Maven
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 38 (23.17%) Finance
3 17 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.93%) Aerospace
4 13 (7.93%) Banking
5 10 (6.10%) Front Office
5 10 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.27%) Automotive
7 6 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.66%) Spanish Language
8 4 (2.44%) Advertising
8 4 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (20.73%) Linux Engineer
2 28 (17.07%) Administrator
3 22 (13.41%) Linux Administrator
3 22 (13.41%) Linux Support
4 20 (12.20%) Support Engineer
5 19 (11.59%) Senior
6 17 (10.37%) Linux Support Engineer
7 16 (9.76%) Systems Administrator
8 14 (8.54%) Applications Architect
8 14 (8.54%) Architect
9 11 (6.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (6.10%) Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Lead
10 10 (6.10%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) C++ Developer
11 9 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Security Architect
12 8 (4.88%) Linux Specialist
12 8 (4.88%) Support Specialist
13 7 (4.27%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.15%) LDAP
2 14 (8.54%) Regular Expression
3 10 (6.10%) XMPP
4 8 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (4.88%) Middleware
5 7 (4.27%) WebSockets
6 6 (3.66%) REST
7 5 (3.05%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.05%) gRPC
7 5 (3.05%) Kafka
7 5 (3.05%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.05%) Node.js
7 5 (3.05%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.05%) React
7 5 (3.05%) Spring
7 5 (3.05%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.05%) Swagger
8 4 (2.44%) JSON
8 4 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.20%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.54%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.54%) PKI
3 10 (6.10%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.88%) Clustering
4 8 (4.88%) Derivative
5 6 (3.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.44%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.44%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.44%) Web3
8 3 (1.83%) Replication
8 3 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.22%) FPGA
9 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 164 (100.00%) Linux
2 58 (35.37%) Windows
3 48 (29.27%) Windows Server
4 47 (28.66%) CentOS
5 21 (12.80%) Ubuntu
6 17 (10.37%) Unix
7 12 (7.32%) Debian
8 10 (6.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (4.27%) AIX
11 6 (3.66%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (3.05%) Solaris
12 5 (3.05%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (1.83%) CoreOS
13 3 (1.83%) VMS
14 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (25.00%) DevOps
3 31 (18.90%) CI/CD
4 27 (16.46%) ITIL
5 26 (15.85%) Configuration Management
5 26 (15.85%) High Availability
5 26 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (15.24%) SIEM
7 24 (14.63%) Agile
8 21 (12.80%) Containerisation
9 20 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (11.59%) Validation
11 17 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (7.93%) Migration
14 12 (7.32%) Application Security
14 12 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (6.71%) Antivirus Management
15 11 (6.71%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.02%) Python
2 50 (30.49%) Bash
3 29 (17.68%) PowerShell
4 23 (14.02%) SQL
5 19 (11.59%) Perl
6 14 (8.54%) PHP
6 14 (8.54%) Shell Script
7 10 (6.10%) Java
8 9 (5.49%) C++
8 9 (5.49%) Korn
9 5 (3.05%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.22%) C
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.73%) DV Cleared
3 17 (10.37%) Degree
4 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (6.10%) RHCSA
6 7 (4.27%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.44%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.44%) RHCE
9 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.61%) CCNA
11 1 (0.61%) CCSP
11 1 (0.61%) CISSP
11 1 (0.61%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.61%) MCSA
11 1 (0.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) SLA
2 2 (1.22%) NIST
3 1 (0.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.61%) QA
3 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (27.44%) Docker
1 45 (27.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (26.22%) Active Directory
3 29 (17.68%) vSphere
4 8 (4.88%) KVM
5 7 (4.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (3.66%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.22%) Samba
11 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (35.37%) Ansible
2 54 (32.93%) Kubernetes
3 30 (18.29%) Terraform
4 23 (14.02%) Puppet
5 17 (10.37%) Nagios
6 11 (6.71%) Grafana
7 8 (4.88%) WSUS
8 7 (4.27%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.27%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (3.05%) Data Guard
9 5 (3.05%) Podman
9 5 (3.05%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.44%) Argo
10 4 (2.44%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.83%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.83%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.83%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.61%) Graylog
13 1 (0.61%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 104 (63.41%) Red Hat
2 75 (45.73%) VMware
3 30 (18.29%) Microsoft
4 17 (10.37%) McAfee
4 17 (10.37%) Oracle
5 10 (6.10%) Dell
5 10 (6.10%) Splunk
6 8 (4.88%) SolarWinds
7 7 (4.27%) Citrix
7 7 (4.27%) NetApp
8 6 (3.66%) Google
9 5 (3.05%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.05%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.05%) Symantec
10 4 (2.44%) IBM
10 4 (2.44%) Mirantis
11 3 (1.83%) HP
11 3 (1.83%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.83%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.22%) CyberArk