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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 493 422
Rank change year-on-year +1 -71 +90
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 169 268 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.40% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.13% 3.02% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 108 173 246
10th Percentile £46,213 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +4.74% +7.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

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 5,393 8,884 9,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 13.14% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 5,144 7,392
10th Percentile £26,750 £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 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £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 13 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 13 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 +17 159 £70,000 +6.93% 98
London +50 85 £85,000 - 61
UK excluding London -17 79 £57,500 - 50
Work from Home +51 58 £80,000 +28.00% 44
South East +21 38 £61,000 +35.56% 22
East of England +9 12 £43,000 -23.21% 3
North of England +24 9 £65,000 -0.71% 3
Midlands +54 7 £57,500 +43.75% 11
South West -6 7 £56,250 -25.00% 7
Scotland -8 7 £53,750 -38.57% 2
East Midlands +18 6 £57,500 +43.75%
Yorkshire +2 5 £65,000 -0.71%
North West +45 4 £60,000 -8.35% 2
West Midlands +40 1 £52,500 -19.80% 11

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 23 (13.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (11.83%) Tomcat
2 20 (11.83%) WebSphere
3 17 (10.06%) Apache
4 16 (9.47%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (2.37%) Confluence
6 3 (1.78%) IIS
6 3 (1.78%) JBoss
6 3 (1.78%) Skype for Business
7 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.18%) WildFly
8 1 (0.59%) nginx
8 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.05%) AWS
2 38 (22.49%) Azure
3 21 (12.43%) GitHub
3 21 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.28%) OpenShift
5 11 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (6.51%) Cohesity
6 10 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.33%) Serverless
8 8 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.14%) Route 53
9 7 (4.14%) SaaS
10 6 (3.55%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (3.55%) Azure AKS
10 6 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.96%) GCP
12 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.57%) Firewall
2 24 (14.20%) SAN
3 18 (10.65%) DNS
3 18 (10.65%) LAN
3 18 (10.65%) TCP/IP
4 17 (10.06%) SSL
4 17 (10.06%) WAN
5 12 (7.10%) Fibre Channel
5 12 (7.10%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (6.51%) DHCP
6 11 (6.51%) iSCSI
7 7 (4.14%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (4.14%) Multicast
7 7 (4.14%) VSAN
8 3 (1.78%) HTTP
8 3 (1.78%) Skype
8 3 (1.78%) VPN
9 2 (1.18%) AMQP
9 2 (1.18%) PBX
9 2 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.98%) SQL Server
3 18 (10.65%) DB2
4 14 (8.28%) MySQL
5 7 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.78%) Big Data
7 3 (1.78%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (21.30%) Git
2 17 (10.06%) GitLab
3 11 (6.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.55%) JIRA
5 3 (1.78%) Ant
5 3 (1.78%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.78%) Maven
5 3 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.59%) MSI
General
1 53 (31.36%) Finance
2 45 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.61%) Banking
4 16 (9.47%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.92%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.55%) Front Office
7 5 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.37%) Law
8 4 (2.37%) Marketing
9 2 (1.18%) Advertising
9 2 (1.18%) Electronics
9 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.18%) Military
9 2 (1.18%) Retail
9 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.59%) Automotive
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (27.81%) Linux Engineer
2 34 (20.12%) Administrator
3 26 (15.38%) Linux Support
4 20 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (11.24%) Linux Administrator
6 18 (10.65%) Systems Administrator
7 17 (10.06%) Applications Support
7 17 (10.06%) Cisco Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Senior
7 17 (10.06%) Support Engineer
8 15 (8.88%) Linux Support Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 13 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
10 12 (7.10%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (6.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 10 (5.92%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.06%) LDAP
2 16 (9.47%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (9.47%) WebSphere MQ
3 7 (4.14%) Kafka
3 7 (4.14%) Middleware
4 6 (3.55%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (3.55%) REST
5 4 (2.37%) .NET
6 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.78%) LAMP
7 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.18%) gRPC
7 2 (1.18%) Material-UI
7 2 (1.18%) Node.js
7 2 (1.18%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.18%) React
7 2 (1.18%) Spring
7 2 (1.18%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.34%) Management Information System
2 20 (11.83%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (11.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.73%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.73%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.55%) Derivative
7 5 (2.96%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.78%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.78%) Clustering
8 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.78%) PKI
8 3 (1.78%) Replication
8 3 (1.78%) RSA SecurID
8 3 (1.78%) Video on Demand
8 3 (1.78%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.59%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 169 (100.00%) Linux
2 80 (47.34%) Windows
3 42 (24.85%) CentOS
4 34 (20.12%) Unix
5 30 (17.75%) Windows Server
6 26 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (8.88%) Solaris
7 15 (8.88%) Ubuntu
8 12 (7.10%) Debian
9 9 (5.33%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (5.33%) Windows 10
10 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.96%) HPUX
12 4 (2.37%) AIX
12 4 (2.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (1.78%) CoreOS
13 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (1.18%) VMS
15 1 (0.59%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.59%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.95%) ITIL
2 51 (30.18%) DevOps
3 33 (19.53%) Containerisation
4 30 (17.75%) Root Cause Analysis
5 24 (14.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (13.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (12.43%) Change Management
8 19 (11.24%) Release Management
9 18 (10.65%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (10.06%) Incident Response
10 17 (10.06%) Time Management
11 16 (9.47%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (8.88%) Low Latency
13 14 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (7.69%) CI/CD
14 13 (7.69%) Incident Management
15 11 (6.51%) Agile
15 11 (6.51%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.79%) Python
2 54 (31.95%) Bash
3 27 (15.98%) PowerShell
4 19 (11.24%) Korn
5 11 (6.51%) PHP
6 10 (5.92%) Java
6 10 (5.92%) SQL
7 7 (4.14%) C++
7 7 (4.14%) Perl
7 7 (4.14%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.78%) Groovy
9 2 (1.18%) C
9 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.59%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.30%) Degree
3 25 (14.79%) DV Cleared
4 22 (13.02%) AWS Certification
5 17 (10.06%) SC Cleared
6 16 (9.47%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (6.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (5.92%) CCNA
8 10 (5.92%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (5.33%) MCSE
9 9 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (4.14%) RHCE
10 7 (4.14%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (1.18%) Dell Certification
14 2 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (1.18%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.57%) SLA
2 9 (5.33%) QA
3 2 (1.18%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (27.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (18.34%) Active Directory
3 26 (15.38%) Docker
4 23 (13.61%) vSphere
5 17 (10.06%) NFS
6 11 (6.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 11 (6.51%) Hyper-V
7 7 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.18%) KVM
9 2 (1.18%) pfSense
9 2 (1.18%) Postfix
9 2 (1.18%) Samba
10 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.59%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 73 (43.20%) Ansible
2 56 (33.14%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.67%) Terraform
4 15 (8.88%) Puppet
5 12 (7.10%) WSUS
6 10 (5.92%) Grafana
7 8 (4.73%) SCOM
8 7 (4.14%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (3.55%) Nagios
9 6 (3.55%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.55%) SCCM
10 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (2.96%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.37%) Podman
12 3 (1.78%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (1.78%) SCVMM
13 2 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (1.18%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.59%) Proxmox
14 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (53.85%) Red Hat
2 71 (42.01%) VMware
3 39 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 35 (20.71%) Cisco
5 23 (13.61%) Commvault
5 23 (13.61%) IBM
6 21 (12.43%) Oracle
7 17 (10.06%) Splunk
8 16 (9.47%) Dell
9 14 (8.28%) Pure Storage
10 11 (6.51%) ServiceNow
11 8 (4.73%) NetApp
12 6 (3.55%) HP
13 4 (2.37%) Atlassian
14 3 (1.78%) McAfee
15 2 (1.18%) EMC
15 2 (1.18%) Fortinet
15 2 (1.18%) Fujitsu
15 2 (1.18%) Google
15 2 (1.18%) SAP