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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 477 552
Rank change year-on-year -67 +75 -35
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 159 166 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.40% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.93% 2.55% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 123 126 259
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +26.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £95,625 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 5,426 6,499 13,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.19% 15.54% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,960 4,403 10,918
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,756
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -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 21 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 21 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 -67 143 £60,000 -14.29% 78
UK excluding London -83 81 £60,000 -7.69% 61
London -4 71 £57,500 -28.13% 26
South East -20 46 £67,500 +17.39% 17
Work from Home -29 26 £70,000 - 23
North West -24 15 £56,000 -25.20% 5
North of England -67 15 £56,000 -20.00% 13
Scotland -19 9 £46,000 +5.14% 1
South West -58 9 £57,500 -20.13% 22
East of England -47 1 £70,000 +14.29% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.55%) Apache
3 8 (5.03%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.40%) Confluence
5 6 (3.77%) Tomcat
6 5 (3.14%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.14%) IIS
7 4 (2.52%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.89%) CMS
8 3 (1.89%) WordPress
9 2 (1.26%) nginx
10 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.90%) AWS
2 29 (18.24%) Azure
3 14 (8.81%) OpenShift
3 14 (8.81%) SaaS
4 12 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (5.66%) IaaS
6 7 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.40%) GCP
6 7 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.40%) Serverless
7 6 (3.77%) Datadog
8 4 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.52%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (1.89%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.89%) GitHub
9 3 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.26%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (30.82%) DNS
2 25 (15.72%) Firewall
2 25 (15.72%) SAN
3 22 (13.84%) TCP/IP
4 17 (10.69%) Multicast
5 16 (10.06%) LAN
6 15 (9.43%) HTTP
7 13 (8.18%) Wireshark
8 11 (6.92%) WAN
9 9 (5.66%) NAS
10 7 (4.40%) ATM
10 7 (4.40%) DHCP
10 7 (4.40%) iSCSI
10 7 (4.40%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (4.40%) tcpdump
11 6 (3.77%) NetScaler
12 5 (3.14%) AMQP
13 4 (2.52%) VSAN
14 3 (1.89%) SNMP
15 2 (1.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.69%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.29%) MySQL
4 7 (4.40%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.77%) Big Data
6 5 (3.14%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.14%) Hadoop
6 5 (3.14%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.89%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.63%) DB2
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.63%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (10.06%) Git
2 11 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.29%) GitLab
3 10 (6.29%) JIRA
4 9 (5.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.89%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.89%) TestRail
7 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.63%) git-flow
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.27%) Finance
3 16 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.81%) Aerospace
5 12 (7.55%) Front Office
6 11 (6.92%) Banking
6 11 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (4.40%) Automotive
8 6 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.77%) Spanish Language
9 4 (2.52%) Advertising
9 4 (2.52%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (20.75%) Linux Engineer
2 28 (17.61%) Administrator
3 22 (13.84%) Linux Support
4 20 (12.58%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (12.58%) Support Engineer
5 19 (11.95%) Senior
6 17 (10.69%) Linux Support Engineer
7 14 (8.81%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (7.55%) Applications Architect
8 12 (7.55%) Architect
8 12 (7.55%) Developer
9 11 (6.92%) C++ Developer
10 10 (6.29%) Lead
10 10 (6.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (5.03%) Linux Specialist
12 8 (5.03%) Security Architect
12 8 (5.03%) Support Specialist
13 7 (4.40%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.81%) LDAP
2 13 (8.18%) Regular Expression
3 10 (6.29%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (5.03%) XMPP
5 7 (4.40%) Middleware
6 6 (3.77%) Kafka
6 6 (3.77%) REST
7 5 (3.14%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.14%) gRPC
7 5 (3.14%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.14%) Node.js
7 5 (3.14%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.14%) React
7 5 (3.14%) Spring
7 5 (3.14%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.14%) Swagger
7 5 (3.14%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.52%) JSON
8 4 (2.52%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.69%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.81%) Management Information System
3 13 (8.18%) PKI
4 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.29%) Derivative
5 9 (5.66%) Clustering
6 6 (3.77%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.52%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.52%) Replication
7 4 (2.52%) Video on Demand
7 4 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.52%) Web3
8 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 159 (100.00%) Linux
2 58 (36.48%) Windows
3 47 (29.56%) CentOS
3 47 (29.56%) Windows Server
4 19 (11.95%) Ubuntu
5 16 (10.06%) Unix
6 11 (6.92%) Debian
7 10 (6.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (3.77%) AIX
9 6 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (3.14%) Solaris
10 5 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.89%) CoreOS
11 3 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (23.90%) DevOps
3 29 (18.24%) CI/CD
4 26 (16.35%) Configuration Management
4 26 (16.35%) High Availability
4 26 (16.35%) ITIL
5 25 (15.72%) Agile
5 25 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (15.09%) SIEM
7 20 (12.58%) Containerisation
8 17 (10.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (10.69%) Validation
9 15 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.18%) Migration
11 12 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (7.55%) Low Latency
11 12 (7.55%) Time Management
12 11 (6.92%) Application Security
12 11 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 63 (39.62%) Python
2 49 (30.82%) Bash
3 31 (19.50%) PowerShell
4 21 (13.21%) SQL
5 19 (11.95%) Perl
6 14 (8.81%) PHP
6 14 (8.81%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.92%) C++
8 9 (5.66%) Java
8 9 (5.66%) Korn
9 5 (3.14%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.26%) C
12 1 (0.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (29.56%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.38%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.43%) Degree
4 12 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.03%) RHCSA
7 7 (4.40%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.52%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.52%) RHCE
10 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.63%) CCSP
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CISM
11 1 (0.63%) CISSP
11 1 (0.63%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) SLA
2 2 (1.26%) NIST
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (27.67%) Docker
2 43 (27.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (25.79%) Active Directory
4 27 (16.98%) vSphere
5 8 (5.03%) KVM
6 7 (4.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (3.77%) Hyper-V
8 5 (3.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.52%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (1.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (1.26%) Samba
12 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 58 (36.48%) Ansible
2 54 (33.96%) Kubernetes
3 27 (16.98%) Terraform
4 22 (13.84%) Puppet
5 16 (10.06%) Nagios
6 11 (6.92%) Grafana
7 7 (4.40%) WSUS
8 6 (3.77%) Data Guard
8 6 (3.77%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (3.14%) Podman
10 4 (2.52%) Argo
10 4 (2.52%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.52%) SCVMM
10 4 (2.52%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.63%) Graylog
13 1 (0.63%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 98 (61.64%) Red Hat
2 70 (44.03%) VMware
3 24 (15.09%) Microsoft
4 18 (11.32%) Oracle
5 17 (10.69%) McAfee
6 10 (6.29%) Splunk
7 9 (5.66%) Dell
8 6 (3.77%) Citrix
8 6 (3.77%) Google
8 6 (3.77%) NetApp
9 5 (3.14%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.14%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.14%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.14%) Symantec
10 4 (2.52%) IBM
10 4 (2.52%) Mirantis
11 3 (1.89%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.26%) D-Link
12 2 (1.26%) Dynatrace