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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 504 516
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 -56
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 130 201 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.56% 2.62% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 86 113 233
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £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 5,072 7,667 11,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.83% 15.00% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,697 4,303 9,332
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £46,125 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +8.53% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +2 118 £57,500 -11.54% 44
London +57 78 £75,000 -3.23% 20
UK excluding London -46 42 £50,000 -13.04% 32
Work from Home +16 37 £85,000 +30.77% 14
South East +2 15 £48,750 -15.22% 13
South West -10 10 £57,500 -20.13% 6
North West +8 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
North of England -7 8 £55,000 - 5
East of England +4 6 £43,000 -25.22% 1
Scotland -14 3 £65,000 +48.57% 2
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 20 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 16 (12.31%) WebSphere
3 14 (10.77%) WebSphere Application Server
4 13 (10.00%) Apache
5 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (3.85%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.85%) Confluence
6 5 (3.85%) IIS
6 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
7 3 (2.31%) CMS
7 3 (2.31%) WordPress
8 2 (1.54%) nginx
8 2 (1.54%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.54%) WildFly
9 1 (0.77%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (38.46%) AWS
2 20 (15.38%) Azure
3 19 (14.62%) OpenShift
4 14 (10.77%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.46%) Serverless
7 10 (7.69%) SaaS
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.62%) Cohesity
8 6 (4.62%) GCP
8 6 (4.62%) Route 53
9 5 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.08%) 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 23 (17.69%) DNS
2 15 (11.54%) SSL
2 15 (11.54%) TCP/IP
3 14 (10.77%) Multicast
4 13 (10.00%) LAN
4 13 (10.00%) SAN
5 12 (9.23%) WAN
6 11 (8.46%) Firewall
7 9 (6.92%) VSAN
8 8 (6.15%) DHCP
9 7 (5.38%) HTTP
10 5 (3.85%) AMQP
11 4 (3.08%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (2.31%) VPN
13 2 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (1.54%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.54%) NAS
13 2 (1.54%) Network Security
13 2 (1.54%) tcpdump
13 2 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.85%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.31%) DB2
4 7 (5.38%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.62%) Big Data
5 6 (4.62%) MySQL
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 13 (10.00%) Git
2 12 (9.23%) 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 47 (36.15%) Finance
2 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.38%) Banking
4 13 (10.00%) Front Office
5 9 (6.92%) Investment Banking
5 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.38%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Advertising
8 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Automotive
9 2 (1.54%) Electronics
9 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.54%) Military
10 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.77%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (25.38%) Linux Support
2 31 (23.85%) Administrator
3 30 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
4 22 (16.92%) Linux Administrator
4 22 (16.92%) Support Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Linux Support Engineer
6 15 (11.54%) Applications Support
6 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure Support
7 14 (10.77%) Unix Support
8 13 (10.00%) C++ Developer
8 13 (10.00%) Developer
9 10 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Senior
11 8 (6.15%) Linux Specialist
11 8 (6.15%) Support Specialist
12 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.62%) DBA
13 6 (4.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
14 5 (3.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.31%) LDAP
2 14 (10.77%) LAPP Stack
2 14 (10.77%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (9.23%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.15%) Middleware
5 7 (5.38%) Kafka
6 6 (4.62%) REST
7 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.85%) gRPC
7 5 (3.85%) Material-UI
7 5 (3.85%) Node.js
7 5 (3.85%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.85%) React
7 5 (3.85%) Spring
7 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.85%) Swagger
8 4 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.31%) LAMP
10 1 (0.77%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.08%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.23%) Derivative
4 9 (6.92%) Clustering
5 7 (5.38%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.62%) PKI
7 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.85%) Replication
8 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.08%) Video on Demand
8 4 (3.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.54%) Blackberry
10 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.54%) FPGA
10 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.54%) RSA SecurID
11 1 (0.77%) Equities
11 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (100.00%) Linux
2 46 (35.38%) Windows
3 41 (31.54%) CentOS
4 33 (25.38%) Unix
5 23 (17.69%) Windows Server
6 15 (11.54%) Ubuntu
7 12 (9.23%) Debian
7 12 (9.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (8.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (5.38%) Solaris
10 5 (3.85%) CoreOS
10 5 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.15%) ITIL
2 27 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (16.92%) Change Management
4 21 (16.15%) DevOps
5 19 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (13.85%) Agile
7 17 (13.08%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.31%) Configuration Management
9 15 (11.54%) Release Management
9 15 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (10.77%) Low Latency
11 13 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.23%) Concurrent Programming
12 12 (9.23%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (9.23%) SOA
12 12 (9.23%) Systems Analysis
12 12 (9.23%) Unit Testing
13 11 (8.46%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 68 (52.31%) Python
2 43 (33.08%) Bash
3 22 (16.92%) PowerShell
4 15 (11.54%) Perl
5 14 (10.77%) C++
6 12 (9.23%) SQL
7 9 (6.92%) PHP
7 9 (6.92%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.15%) Java
9 7 (5.38%) Korn
10 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.54%) C
11 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.77%) C#
12 1 (0.77%) Groovy
12 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.92%) Degree
3 20 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 19 (14.62%) DV Cleared
4 19 (14.62%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.31%) RHCE
7 3 (2.31%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.54%) CCNA
8 2 (1.54%) CCNP
8 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (1.54%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.77%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (25.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (16.15%) Active Directory
3 20 (15.38%) Docker
4 10 (7.69%) vSphere
5 6 (4.62%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (3.08%) NFS
8 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (1.54%) KVM
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.54%) pfSense
9 2 (1.54%) Samba
10 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.77%) Postfix
10 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (36.92%) Ansible
2 29 (22.31%) Kubernetes
3 19 (14.62%) Terraform
4 15 (11.54%) Puppet
5 9 (6.92%) Grafana
6 8 (6.15%) Nagios
7 6 (4.62%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (4.62%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.62%) SCVMM
7 6 (4.62%) WSUS
8 4 (3.08%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.08%) Podman
8 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
8 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.54%) SCOM
10 1 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.77%) Graylog
10 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (64.62%) Red Hat
2 41 (31.54%) VMware
3 17 (13.08%) IBM
4 16 (12.31%) Oracle
5 10 (7.69%) McAfee
5 10 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 9 (6.92%) Splunk
7 7 (5.38%) Cisco
8 6 (4.62%) Microsoft
9 5 (3.85%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.85%) Commvault
9 5 (3.85%) Google
9 5 (3.85%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.85%) Symantec
10 4 (3.08%) Dell
10 4 (3.08%) HP
10 4 (3.08%) NetApp
10 4 (3.08%) Pure Storage
11 2 (1.54%) Mirantis
12 1 (0.77%) Delphix