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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 511 496
Rank change year-on-year -8 -15 -40
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 130 205 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.58% 2.60% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 85 110 235
10th Percentile £44,150 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £91,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 5,046 7,891 10,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.97% 15.05% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,681 4,396 8,647
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +4.08% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £45,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year -16.48% +4.60% -3.33%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -5 119 £57,500 -11.54% 37
London +49 78 £85,000 +9.68% 18
UK excluding London -50 42 £50,000 -13.04% 30
Work from Home +30 41 £85,000 +30.77% 11
South East +9 15 £48,750 -15.22% 13
South West -12 10 £57,500 -20.13% 5
North West +28 8 £55,000 +37.50% 3
North of England +4 8 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East of England +9 7 £42,500 -26.09% 2
Scotland -13 2 £65,000 +48.57% 4
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 22 (16.92%) Tomcat
2 18 (13.85%) WebSphere
3 16 (12.31%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (9.23%) Apache
5 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (3.85%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.85%) Confluence
6 5 (3.85%) IIS
7 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.54%) CMS
8 2 (1.54%) nginx
8 2 (1.54%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.54%) WildFly
8 2 (1.54%) WordPress
9 1 (0.77%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (40.00%) AWS
2 20 (15.38%) Azure
3 19 (14.62%) OpenShift
4 15 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (9.23%) Serverless
7 10 (7.69%) SaaS
8 7 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.38%) Cohesity
8 7 (5.38%) Route 53
9 6 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.62%) GCP
9 6 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (3.85%) GitHub
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (2.31%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.15%) DNS
2 17 (13.08%) SSL
3 15 (11.54%) TCP/IP
4 14 (10.77%) LAN
5 13 (10.00%) Multicast
5 13 (10.00%) WAN
6 12 (9.23%) Firewall
6 12 (9.23%) SAN
7 9 (6.92%) VSAN
8 8 (6.15%) DHCP
9 7 (5.38%) HTTP
10 5 (3.85%) AMQP
10 5 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (2.31%) VPN
12 2 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (1.54%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.54%) NAS
12 2 (1.54%) Network Security
12 2 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.54%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (14.62%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.85%) DB2
4 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.62%) Big Data
5 6 (4.62%) MySQL
5 6 (4.62%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.85%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.85%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.31%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.77%) Power BI
9 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.77%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.77%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.77%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Git
2 13 (10.00%) GitLab
3 10 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.62%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.62%) JIRA
5 5 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.31%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.31%) TestRail
7 1 (0.77%) Ant
7 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.77%) Maven
7 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (37.69%) Finance
2 24 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.92%) Banking
4 13 (10.00%) Front Office
5 10 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.62%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.08%) Advertising
9 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Electronics
10 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.54%) Military
11 1 (0.77%) Automotive
11 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (25.38%) Linux Support
2 31 (23.85%) Administrator
3 30 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
4 23 (17.69%) Linux Administrator
5 22 (16.92%) Support Engineer
6 18 (13.85%) Linux Support Engineer
7 17 (13.08%) Applications Support
7 17 (13.08%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (11.54%) Unix Support
9 13 (10.00%) C++ Developer
9 13 (10.00%) Developer
10 10 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Linux Specialist
12 8 (6.15%) Support Specialist
13 7 (5.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 7 (5.38%) Senior
14 6 (4.62%) Applications Support Engineer
14 6 (4.62%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.85%) LDAP
2 16 (12.31%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (12.31%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (9.23%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (5.38%) Kafka
4 7 (5.38%) Middleware
5 6 (4.62%) REST
6 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.85%) gRPC
6 5 (3.85%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.85%) Node.js
6 5 (3.85%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.85%) React
6 5 (3.85%) Spring
6 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.85%) Swagger
7 4 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.31%) LAMP
9 1 (0.77%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.62%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (13.08%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.23%) Derivative
4 9 (6.92%) Clustering
5 7 (5.38%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.85%) Replication
7 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.08%) PKI
7 4 (3.08%) Video on Demand
7 4 (3.08%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.54%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.54%) FPGA
9 2 (1.54%) RSA SecurID
9 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.77%) Equities
10 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 130 (100.00%) Linux
2 46 (35.38%) Windows
3 41 (31.54%) CentOS
4 35 (26.92%) Unix
5 21 (16.15%) Windows Server
6 15 (11.54%) Ubuntu
7 13 (10.00%) Debian
8 12 (9.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (8.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (6.15%) Solaris
11 5 (3.85%) CoreOS
11 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (3.08%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (2.31%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.92%) ITIL
2 27 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (18.46%) Change Management
4 23 (17.69%) DevOps
5 20 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (14.62%) Containerisation
7 18 (13.85%) Agile
8 17 (13.08%) Release Management
8 17 (13.08%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (11.54%) Configuration Management
9 15 (11.54%) Low Latency
10 14 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (9.23%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (9.23%) SOA
11 12 (9.23%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (9.23%) Unit Testing
12 11 (8.46%) CI/CD
13 10 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (54.62%) Python
2 43 (33.08%) Bash
3 22 (16.92%) PowerShell
4 15 (11.54%) Perl
5 14 (10.77%) C++
6 9 (6.92%) SQL
7 8 (6.15%) Java
7 8 (6.15%) PHP
7 8 (6.15%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.38%) Korn
9 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.54%) C
11 1 (0.77%) C#
11 1 (0.77%) Groovy
11 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.46%) Degree
3 22 (16.92%) AWS Certification
4 21 (16.15%) ITIL Certification
5 17 (13.08%) DV Cleared
6 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.31%) RHCE
8 3 (2.31%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.54%) CCNA
9 2 (1.54%) CCNP
9 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.31%) SLA
2 3 (2.31%) QA
3 2 (1.54%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.77%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (25.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (14.62%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.62%) Docker
3 9 (6.92%) vSphere
4 6 (4.62%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.85%) NFS
5 5 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.54%) pfSense
7 2 (1.54%) Samba
8 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.77%) KVM
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.77%) Postfix
8 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (37.69%) Ansible
2 29 (22.31%) Kubernetes
3 20 (15.38%) Terraform
4 14 (10.77%) Puppet
5 9 (6.92%) Grafana
6 7 (5.38%) Nagios
7 6 (4.62%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (4.62%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.62%) SCVMM
8 4 (3.08%) Podman
8 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
8 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (3.08%) WSUS
9 3 (2.31%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (1.54%) SCOM
11 1 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.77%) Graylog
11 1 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (66.15%) Red Hat
2 41 (31.54%) VMware
3 18 (13.85%) IBM
4 15 (11.54%) Oracle
5 11 (8.46%) ServiceNow
6 9 (6.92%) Splunk
7 8 (6.15%) Cisco
7 8 (6.15%) McAfee
8 6 (4.62%) Commvault
8 6 (4.62%) Microsoft
9 5 (3.85%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.85%) Google
9 5 (3.85%) NetApp
9 5 (3.85%) Pure Storage
9 5 (3.85%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.85%) Symantec
10 4 (3.08%) Dell
10 4 (3.08%) HP
11 2 (1.54%) Mirantis
12 1 (0.77%) Delphix