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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 492 535
Rank change year-on-year -52 +43 -40
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 137 171 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.64% 2.57% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 97 113 236
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +25.45% -14.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £99,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% -

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 5,198 6,644 12,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.20% 15.08% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,818 4,301 10,431
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,890 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +8.28% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +5.88% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -38 123 £57,500 -17.86% 43
London +18 78 £75,000 -3.23% 11
UK excluding London -48 51 £51,250 -14.58% 40
South East -11 28 £50,000 -16.67% 22
Work from Home 0 25 £85,000 +21.43% 13
South West -27 8 £57,500 -20.13% 5
North West -8 7 £55,000 -26.54% 2
North of England -32 7 £55,000 -16.90% 5
Scotland -12 6 £46,000 +5.14% 7
East of England -16 1 £70,000 +16.67%
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 15 (10.95%) Tomcat
2 12 (8.76%) Apache
3 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (7.30%) WebSphere
4 9 (6.57%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (5.84%) SharePoint
6 6 (4.38%) Confluence
7 5 (3.65%) Apache Spark
7 5 (3.65%) IIS
8 3 (2.19%) CMS
8 3 (2.19%) WordPress
9 2 (1.46%) nginx
10 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.74%) AWS
2 26 (18.98%) Azure
3 15 (10.95%) OpenShift
4 13 (9.49%) SaaS
5 12 (8.76%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.57%) Serverless
8 6 (4.38%) GCP
8 6 (4.38%) IaaS
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.92%) Route 53
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (2.19%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Stack
10 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (26.28%) DNS
2 21 (15.33%) TCP/IP
3 18 (13.14%) Multicast
4 17 (12.41%) SAN
5 16 (11.68%) Firewall
5 16 (11.68%) LAN
6 14 (10.22%) HTTP
7 11 (8.03%) WAN
8 10 (7.30%) SSL
9 8 (5.84%) Wireshark
10 7 (5.11%) DHCP
11 6 (4.38%) ATM
11 6 (4.38%) tcpdump
12 5 (3.65%) AMQP
12 5 (3.65%) NAS
12 5 (3.65%) VSAN
13 3 (2.19%) iSCSI
13 3 (2.19%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (2.19%) SNMP
13 3 (2.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.22%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.30%) DB2
4 7 (5.11%) MySQL
4 7 (5.11%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.38%) Big Data
6 5 (3.65%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.65%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.19%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.73%) Power BI
9 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.73%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.73%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.73%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Git
2 12 (8.76%) GitLab
3 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.84%) JIRA
5 6 (4.38%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.19%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.19%) TestRail
General
1 43 (31.39%) Finance
2 42 (30.66%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.14%) Banking
4 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.49%) Front Office
5 11 (8.03%) Aerospace
6 7 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.38%) Automotive
7 6 (4.38%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.65%) Spanish Language
9 3 (2.19%) Advertising
10 2 (1.46%) Electronics
10 2 (1.46%) Military
11 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (23.36%) Administrator
2 30 (21.90%) Linux Support
3 28 (20.44%) Linux Engineer
4 25 (18.25%) Linux Administrator
5 22 (16.06%) Support Engineer
6 19 (13.87%) Linux Support Engineer
7 14 (10.22%) Senior
8 13 (9.49%) C++ Developer
8 13 (9.49%) Developer
8 13 (9.49%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (8.76%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (8.03%) Unix Support
11 10 (7.30%) Applications Support
12 9 (6.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 8 (5.84%) Linux Specialist
13 8 (5.84%) Support Specialist
14 7 (5.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 7 (5.11%) 3rd Line Support
14 7 (5.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 6 (4.38%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.49%) LDAP
2 12 (8.76%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (6.57%) LAPP Stack
3 9 (6.57%) WebSphere MQ
4 7 (5.11%) Middleware
5 6 (4.38%) Kafka
5 6 (4.38%) REST
6 5 (3.65%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.65%) gRPC
6 5 (3.65%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.65%) Node.js
6 5 (3.65%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.65%) React
6 5 (3.65%) Spring
6 5 (3.65%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.65%) Swagger
6 5 (3.65%) WebSockets
7 3 (2.19%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.19%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Data Centre
1 12 (8.76%) Derivative
2 11 (8.03%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (8.03%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.57%) Clustering
3 9 (6.57%) PKI
4 6 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.92%) Replication
5 4 (2.92%) Video on Demand
5 4 (2.92%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) FPGA
8 1 (0.73%) Equities
8 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 137 (100.00%) Linux
2 46 (33.58%) CentOS
3 45 (32.85%) Windows
4 30 (21.90%) Windows Server
5 22 (16.06%) Unix
6 20 (14.60%) Ubuntu
7 10 (7.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (5.11%) Debian
10 6 (4.38%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.19%) AIX
12 3 (2.19%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (21.17%) DevOps
3 26 (18.98%) ITIL
4 23 (16.79%) Agile
5 21 (15.33%) Configuration Management
5 21 (15.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (14.60%) CI/CD
7 17 (12.41%) Change Management
8 16 (11.68%) Containerisation
9 15 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (9.49%) High Availability
10 13 (9.49%) Low Latency
10 13 (9.49%) Migration
11 12 (8.76%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (8.76%) SIEM
11 12 (8.76%) SOA
11 12 (8.76%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (8.76%) Unit Testing
12 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (7.30%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (48.91%) Python
2 44 (32.12%) Bash
3 28 (20.44%) PowerShell
4 20 (14.60%) SQL
5 18 (13.14%) Perl
6 13 (9.49%) C++
6 13 (9.49%) PHP
7 12 (8.76%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.11%) Java
9 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.65%) Korn
10 3 (2.19%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.46%) C
12 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.79%) DV Cleared
3 17 (12.41%) Degree
4 15 (10.95%) AWS Certification
5 14 (10.22%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.84%) RHCSA
8 7 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.92%) RHCE
11 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.73%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.68%) SLA
2 2 (1.46%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.73%) NIST
3 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 40 (29.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (21.17%) Docker
3 26 (18.98%) Active Directory
4 16 (11.68%) vSphere
5 7 (5.11%) KVM
6 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (2.19%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.46%) Samba
9 1 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.73%) Postfix
9 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (34.31%) Ansible
2 41 (29.93%) Kubernetes
3 20 (14.60%) Terraform
4 17 (12.41%) Puppet
5 16 (11.68%) Nagios
6 9 (6.57%) Grafana
7 7 (5.11%) WSUS
8 5 (3.65%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.92%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.92%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.92%) SCVMM
10 3 (2.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (2.19%) Podman
11 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (59.85%) Red Hat
2 55 (40.15%) VMware
3 16 (11.68%) Oracle
4 13 (9.49%) IBM
5 11 (8.03%) McAfee
6 10 (7.30%) Splunk
7 7 (5.11%) Microsoft
7 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.65%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.65%) Dell
8 5 (3.65%) Google
8 5 (3.65%) SaltStack
8 5 (3.65%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.65%) Symantec
9 3 (2.19%) Cisco
9 3 (2.19%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.46%) Citrix
10 2 (1.46%) D-Link
10 2 (1.46%) HP
10 2 (1.46%) NetApp