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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 508 427
Rank change year-on-year +27 -81 +58
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 162 246 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.38% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.16% 2.75% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 106 155 237
10th Percentile £46,188 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,465 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +3.91% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £94,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +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 5,119 8,942 8,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.43% 13.99% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,839 5,238 7,215
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 £71,991 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,900 £87,500 £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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +49 153 £67,750 +3.49% 52
London +85 91 £85,000 - 25
UK excluding London -1 65 £56,250 -2.17% 43
Work from Home +57 56 £85,000 +47.83% 46
South East +18 25 £60,500 +34.44% 23
East of England +26 12 £43,000 -22.52% 2
North of England +30 11 £65,000 -0.71% 2
South West -15 7 £56,250 -25.00% 6
North West +46 6 £60,000 -8.35% 1
Midlands +38 6 £57,500 +43.75% 7
East Midlands +17 5 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Scotland +1 5 £53,750 -37.68% 4
Yorkshire -6 5 £65,000 -0.71% 1
West Midlands +47 1 £52,500 -19.80% 6

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 (13.58%) Tomcat
2 20 (12.35%) WebSphere
3 17 (10.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (9.88%) WebSphere Application Server
5 11 (6.79%) Apache
6 5 (3.09%) IIS
7 4 (2.47%) Confluence
8 3 (1.85%) JBoss
8 3 (1.85%) Skype for Business
9 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (1.23%) nginx
9 2 (1.23%) WildFly
10 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.36%) AWS
2 32 (19.75%) Azure
3 17 (10.49%) OpenShift
4 15 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (8.02%) GitHub
6 11 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (6.79%) Cohesity
7 10 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.56%) Serverless
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.94%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.32%) Route 53
10 7 (4.32%) SaaS
11 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (3.70%) GCP
11 6 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.47%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.81%) Firewall
2 23 (14.20%) SAN
3 18 (11.11%) DNS
4 17 (10.49%) SSL
5 15 (9.26%) LAN
5 15 (9.26%) WAN
6 14 (8.64%) TCP/IP
7 12 (7.41%) Multicast
8 11 (6.79%) DHCP
9 9 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (5.56%) iSCSI
9 9 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (4.32%) VSAN
11 3 (1.85%) Skype
11 3 (1.85%) VPN
12 2 (1.23%) HTTP
12 2 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.23%) PBX
12 2 (1.23%) SNMP
12 2 (1.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 27 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.11%) DB2
3 12 (7.41%) MySQL
4 7 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.85%) Big Data
5 3 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (15.43%) Git
2 18 (11.11%) GitLab
3 12 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.32%) JIRA
5 5 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.85%) Ant
6 3 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.85%) Maven
6 3 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.62%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.62%) TestRail
General
1 59 (36.42%) Finance
2 40 (24.69%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.58%) Banking
4 13 (8.02%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (6.79%) Front Office
6 10 (6.17%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.47%) Advertising
7 4 (2.47%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Electronics
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Military
8 2 (1.23%) Retail
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Automotive
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (27.16%) Linux Engineer
2 37 (22.84%) Administrator
3 30 (18.52%) Linux Support
4 25 (15.43%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (11.73%) Support Engineer
6 17 (10.49%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.49%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (9.88%) Infrastructure Support
7 16 (9.88%) Linux Support Engineer
8 14 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.64%) Unix Support
9 13 (8.02%) Senior
10 12 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
11 11 (6.79%) C++ Developer
11 11 (6.79%) Developer
11 11 (6.79%) VMware Engineer
12 10 (6.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 10 (6.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.11%) LDAP
2 16 (9.88%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (9.88%) WebSphere MQ
3 11 (6.79%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (5.56%) Kafka
5 8 (4.94%) Middleware
6 4 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.47%) REST
7 3 (1.85%) LAMP
8 2 (1.23%) .NET
8 2 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.23%) gRPC
8 2 (1.23%) Material-UI
8 2 (1.23%) Node.js
8 2 (1.23%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.23%) React
8 2 (1.23%) Spring
8 2 (1.23%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.90%) Management Information System
2 20 (12.35%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (9.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.79%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.79%) Derivative
5 9 (5.56%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.32%) Clustering
7 5 (3.09%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.09%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.47%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.47%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.85%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.85%) PKI
9 3 (1.85%) Replication
9 3 (1.85%) RSA SecurID
10 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.23%) FPGA
10 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 162 (100.00%) Linux
2 68 (41.98%) Windows
3 36 (22.22%) Unix
4 35 (21.60%) CentOS
5 28 (17.28%) Windows Server
6 24 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (8.02%) Solaris
7 13 (8.02%) Ubuntu
8 11 (6.79%) Debian
9 8 (4.94%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (3.70%) Windows 10
11 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (2.47%) AIX
12 4 (2.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (1.85%) CoreOS
14 2 (1.23%) HPUX
14 2 (1.23%) VMS
15 1 (0.62%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.62%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.48%) ITIL
2 37 (22.84%) DevOps
3 29 (17.90%) Containerisation
4 25 (15.43%) Change Management
4 25 (15.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 23 (14.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (12.35%) Low Latency
8 19 (11.73%) Release Management
9 16 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (9.26%) Incident Response
10 15 (9.26%) Time Management
11 14 (8.64%) Agile
11 14 (8.64%) CI/CD
11 14 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.41%) Configuration Management
14 11 (6.79%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 78 (48.15%) Python
2 57 (35.19%) Bash
3 27 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 17 (10.49%) Korn
5 12 (7.41%) C++
6 10 (6.17%) Perl
7 9 (5.56%) Java
8 8 (4.94%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.94%) SQL
9 4 (2.47%) PHP
10 3 (1.85%) Groovy
11 2 (1.23%) C
11 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.62%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (20.99%) Degree
2 32 (19.75%) Security Cleared
3 26 (16.05%) AWS Certification
4 21 (12.96%) DV Cleared
5 20 (12.35%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (9.26%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.32%) CCNA
8 7 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.32%) RHCE
9 6 (3.70%) MCSE
9 6 (3.70%) RHCSA
9 6 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
13 2 (1.23%) Dell Certification
13 2 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (19.75%) SLA
2 10 (6.17%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (19.14%) Active Directory
3 27 (16.67%) Docker
4 17 (10.49%) vSphere
5 12 (7.41%) NFS
6 11 (6.79%) Hyper-V
7 9 (5.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (4.32%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.23%) KVM
10 2 (1.23%) pfSense
10 2 (1.23%) Postfix
10 2 (1.23%) Samba
11 1 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.62%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (41.98%) Ansible
2 48 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 30 (18.52%) Terraform
4 15 (9.26%) Puppet
5 11 (6.79%) Grafana
5 11 (6.79%) WSUS
6 9 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (4.94%) SCOM
8 6 (3.70%) Nagios
8 6 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.70%) SCCM
9 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (3.09%) Podman
9 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.85%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (1.85%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 102 (62.96%) Red Hat
2 64 (39.51%) VMware
3 30 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 23 (14.20%) Cisco
5 22 (13.58%) IBM
6 21 (12.96%) Oracle
7 15 (9.26%) Commvault
7 15 (9.26%) Splunk
8 14 (8.64%) Dell
9 11 (6.79%) ServiceNow
10 8 (4.94%) NetApp
10 8 (4.94%) Pure Storage
11 7 (4.32%) HP
12 4 (2.47%) Atlassian
12 4 (2.47%) Symantec
13 3 (1.85%) McAfee
14 2 (1.23%) EMC
14 2 (1.23%) Fujitsu
14 2 (1.23%) Google
14 2 (1.23%) Juniper