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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 495 432
Rank change year-on-year -7 -63 +66
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 169 269 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.40% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.17% 3.02% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 109 174 254
10th Percentile £46,225 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,563 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £67,232 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +7.57% +7.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £113,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +2.38%

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 5,338 8,910 9,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 13.14% 17.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,990 5,180 7,539
10th Percentile £26,863 £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 16 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 16 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 +16 159 £70,000 +6.93% 88
London +52 89 £85,000 - 55
UK excluding London +1 75 £57,500 - 47
Work from Home +47 56 £80,000 +28.00% 39
South East +16 35 £60,500 +34.44% 23
East of England +18 12 £43,000 -22.52% 4
North of England +30 9 £65,000 -0.71% 3
South West -7 7 £56,250 -25.00% 5
Scotland -7 7 £53,750 -38.57% 2
Midlands +50 6 £57,500 +43.75% 10
East Midlands +20 5 £57,500 +43.75%
Yorkshire +6 5 £65,000 -0.71%
North West +42 4 £60,000 -8.35% 2
West Midlands +53 1 £52,500 -19.80% 10

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 (11.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (11.83%) Tomcat
1 20 (11.83%) WebSphere
2 17 (10.06%) Apache
3 16 (9.47%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.37%) Confluence
5 3 (1.78%) IIS
5 3 (1.78%) JBoss
5 3 (1.78%) Skype for Business
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.18%) WildFly
7 1 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.46%) AWS
2 38 (22.49%) Azure
3 21 (12.43%) GitHub
4 19 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (8.28%) OpenShift
6 11 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (6.51%) Cohesity
7 10 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.33%) Serverless
9 8 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.14%) Route 53
10 7 (4.14%) SaaS
11 6 (3.55%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (3.55%) Azure AKS
11 6 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.96%) GCP
13 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.98%) Firewall
2 23 (13.61%) SAN
3 17 (10.06%) LAN
3 17 (10.06%) SSL
3 17 (10.06%) WAN
4 16 (9.47%) DNS
4 16 (9.47%) TCP/IP
5 12 (7.10%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (5.92%) DHCP
6 10 (5.92%) iSCSI
6 10 (5.92%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (4.73%) Multicast
8 7 (4.14%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (4.14%) VSAN
9 3 (1.78%) Skype
9 3 (1.78%) VPN
10 2 (1.18%) AMQP
10 2 (1.18%) HTTP
10 2 (1.18%) PBX
10 2 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.57%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 18 (10.65%) DB2
4 13 (7.69%) 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 35 (20.71%) 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 22 (13.02%) Banking
4 15 (8.88%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.92%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Front Office
7 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.37%) Advertising
8 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Law
8 4 (2.37%) Marketing
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 46 (27.22%) Linux Engineer
2 36 (21.30%) Administrator
3 26 (15.38%) Linux Support
4 22 (13.02%) Linux Administrator
5 19 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) Applications Support
6 17 (10.06%) Cisco Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) Support Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (9.47%) Senior
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 10 (5.92%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 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%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (4.14%) Kafka
3 7 (4.14%) Middleware
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 30 (17.75%) Management Information System
2 20 (11.83%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (11.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.10%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.14%) Derivative
5 7 (4.14%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.96%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.78%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.78%) Clustering
7 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) PKI
7 3 (1.78%) Replication
7 3 (1.78%) RSA SecurID
7 3 (1.78%) Video on Demand
7 3 (1.78%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 169 (100.00%) Linux
2 77 (45.56%) Windows
3 42 (24.85%) CentOS
4 34 (20.12%) Unix
5 29 (17.16%) Windows Server
6 25 (14.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (8.88%) Solaris
7 15 (8.88%) Ubuntu
8 12 (7.10%) Debian
9 9 (5.33%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (4.73%) Windows 10
11 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (2.96%) HPUX
13 4 (2.37%) AIX
13 4 (2.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (1.78%) CoreOS
14 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (1.18%) VMS
16 1 (0.59%) OpenVMS
16 1 (0.59%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.36%) ITIL
2 50 (29.59%) DevOps
3 33 (19.53%) Containerisation
4 30 (17.75%) Root Cause Analysis
5 27 (15.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (13.61%) 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
11 16 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (9.47%) Low Latency
11 16 (9.47%) Time Management
11 16 (9.47%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (7.69%) CI/CD
13 13 (7.69%) Incident Management
14 11 (6.51%) Agile
14 11 (6.51%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.38%) Python
2 54 (31.95%) Bash
3 27 (15.98%) PowerShell
4 18 (10.65%) Korn
5 11 (6.51%) PHP
6 10 (5.92%) Java
7 9 (5.33%) SQL
8 8 (4.73%) C++
9 7 (4.14%) Perl
9 7 (4.14%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.78%) Groovy
11 2 (1.18%) C
11 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.59%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.12%) 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 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (5.33%) CCNA
8 9 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (4.73%) MCSE
9 8 (4.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (4.14%) RHCE
11 6 (3.55%) RHCSA
12 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (1.18%) CCNP
15 2 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 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 46 (27.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (17.75%) Active Directory
3 25 (14.79%) Docker
4 22 (13.02%) vSphere
5 17 (10.06%) NFS
6 11 (6.51%) Hyper-V
7 10 (5.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.18%) KVM
10 2 (1.18%) pfSense
10 2 (1.18%) Postfix
10 2 (1.18%) Samba
11 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.59%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (44.97%) Ansible
2 55 (32.54%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.67%) Terraform
4 15 (8.88%) Puppet
5 11 (6.51%) WSUS
6 10 (5.92%) Grafana
7 8 (4.73%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (4.73%) SCOM
8 6 (3.55%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.55%) SCCM
9 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 5 (2.96%) Nagios
9 5 (2.96%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.37%) Podman
11 3 (1.78%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.78%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.18%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.59%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.59%) WMI
Vendors
1 92 (54.44%) Red Hat
2 70 (41.42%) VMware
3 36 (21.30%) Microsoft
4 33 (19.53%) Cisco
5 23 (13.61%) Commvault
6 22 (13.02%) IBM
7 21 (12.43%) Oracle
8 16 (9.47%) Splunk
9 14 (8.28%) 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%) Fujitsu
15 2 (1.18%) Google
15 2 (1.18%) Juniper
15 2 (1.18%) SAP