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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 481 548
Rank change year-on-year -78 +67 -39
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 146 163 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.70% 2.68% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 110 118 247
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +0.24%

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 5,407 6,075 13,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.90% 14.75% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,984 4,371 10,753
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £66,203 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,750 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.67% +5.88% -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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -75 131 £60,000 -14.29% 65
London +17 77 £67,500 -18.18% 14
UK excluding London -77 61 £55,000 -15.38% 55
South East -15 36 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Work from Home -21 26 £70,000 - 30
North West -21 8 £56,000 -25.20% 10
South West -45 8 £57,500 -20.13% 13
North of England -60 8 £56,000 -22.69% 19
Scotland -31 7 £46,000 +5.14% 2
East of England -38 1 £70,000 +14.29% 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 13 (8.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.22%) Apache
2 12 (8.22%) Tomcat
3 8 (5.48%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.79%) Confluence
4 7 (4.79%) WebSphere
5 6 (4.11%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (3.42%) Apache Spark
6 5 (3.42%) IIS
7 3 (2.05%) CMS
7 3 (2.05%) OpenStack
7 3 (2.05%) WordPress
8 2 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (28.08%) AWS
2 27 (18.49%) Azure
3 15 (10.27%) OpenShift
4 14 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (9.59%) SaaS
5 11 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.85%) Serverless
7 7 (4.79%) IaaS
8 6 (4.11%) GCP
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.42%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (3.42%) Datadog
10 4 (2.74%) Route 53
10 4 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.05%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (2.05%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.05%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (30.14%) DNS
2 22 (15.07%) TCP/IP
3 19 (13.01%) Firewall
3 19 (13.01%) Multicast
3 19 (13.01%) SAN
4 16 (10.96%) LAN
5 15 (10.27%) HTTP
6 11 (7.53%) WAN
6 11 (7.53%) Wireshark
7 8 (5.48%) SSL
8 7 (4.79%) ATM
8 7 (4.79%) DHCP
8 7 (4.79%) NAS
8 7 (4.79%) tcpdump
9 5 (3.42%) AMQP
9 5 (3.42%) VSAN
10 4 (2.74%) NetScaler
11 3 (2.05%) iSCSI
11 3 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.79%) DB2
3 7 (4.79%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.11%) Big Data
4 6 (4.11%) MySQL
5 5 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.42%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.42%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.05%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.68%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (10.96%) Git
2 12 (8.22%) GitLab
3 11 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.16%) JIRA
5 8 (5.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.11%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.05%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.05%) TestRail
8 1 (0.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.68%) Maven
8 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 40 (27.40%) Finance
3 15 (10.27%) Banking
4 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.90%) Front Office
6 12 (8.22%) Aerospace
7 7 (4.79%) Automotive
7 7 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.11%) Spanish Language
9 4 (2.74%) Advertising
9 4 (2.74%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.05%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (19.18%) Administrator
1 28 (19.18%) Linux Engineer
1 28 (19.18%) Linux Support
2 22 (15.07%) Support Engineer
3 21 (14.38%) Linux Administrator
4 19 (13.01%) Linux Support Engineer
5 14 (9.59%) Senior
6 13 (8.90%) C++ Developer
6 13 (8.90%) Developer
6 13 (8.90%) Systems Administrator
7 10 (6.85%) Infrastructure Support
8 9 (6.16%) Applications Architect
8 9 (6.16%) Architect
8 9 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.16%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 9 (6.16%) Unix Support
9 8 (5.48%) Lead
9 8 (5.48%) Linux Specialist
9 8 (5.48%) Support Specialist
10 7 (4.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.96%) LDAP
2 12 (8.22%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (6.16%) Regular Expression
4 7 (4.79%) Middleware
5 6 (4.11%) Kafka
5 6 (4.11%) LAPP Stack
5 6 (4.11%) REST
5 6 (4.11%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (3.42%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.42%) gRPC
6 5 (3.42%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.42%) Node.js
6 5 (3.42%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.42%) React
6 5 (3.42%) Spring
6 5 (3.42%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.42%) Swagger
6 5 (3.42%) WebSockets
6 5 (3.42%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.59%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.22%) Derivative
2 12 (8.22%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.53%) PKI
4 9 (6.16%) Clustering
5 7 (4.79%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.11%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.11%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.74%) Replication
8 4 (2.74%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (2.05%) Blockchain
9 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.05%) Web3
10 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.37%) FPGA
10 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 146 (100.00%) Linux
2 53 (36.30%) Windows
3 48 (32.88%) CentOS
4 41 (28.08%) Windows Server
5 20 (13.70%) Ubuntu
5 20 (13.70%) Unix
6 10 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (6.16%) Debian
7 9 (6.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (4.11%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.05%) AIX
10 3 (2.05%) CoreOS
10 3 (2.05%) Solaris
11 2 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (24.66%) DevOps
3 27 (18.49%) CI/CD
4 26 (17.81%) ITIL
5 25 (17.12%) Agile
5 25 (17.12%) Configuration Management
5 25 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (13.70%) Containerisation
7 18 (12.33%) SIEM
8 17 (11.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (11.64%) High Availability
9 14 (9.59%) Change Management
9 14 (9.59%) Migration
9 14 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (9.59%) Validation
10 13 (8.90%) Low Latency
11 12 (8.22%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (8.22%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (8.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.21%) Python
2 42 (28.77%) Bash
3 27 (18.49%) PowerShell
4 20 (13.70%) SQL
5 19 (13.01%) Perl
6 14 (9.59%) PHP
7 13 (8.90%) C++
7 13 (8.90%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.48%) Java
9 5 (3.42%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.42%) Korn
10 3 (2.05%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.37%) C
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.55%) DV Cleared
3 15 (10.27%) Degree
4 13 (8.90%) AWS Certification
5 12 (8.22%) SC Cleared
6 11 (7.53%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.48%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.74%) RHCE
9 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.05%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CISM
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) SLA
2 2 (1.37%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (29.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (26.03%) Docker
3 33 (22.60%) Active Directory
4 23 (15.75%) vSphere
5 8 (5.48%) KVM
6 5 (3.42%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (2.05%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.37%) Samba
9 2 (1.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (37.67%) Ansible
2 47 (32.19%) Kubernetes
3 25 (17.12%) Terraform
4 20 (13.70%) Puppet
5 16 (10.96%) Nagios
6 11 (7.53%) Grafana
7 7 (4.79%) WSUS
8 5 (3.42%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.42%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.42%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.42%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.74%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.74%) Podman
9 4 (2.74%) SCVMM
10 3 (2.05%) Argo
10 3 (2.05%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (2.05%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 87 (59.59%) Red Hat
2 64 (43.84%) VMware
3 17 (11.64%) Oracle
4 15 (10.27%) McAfee
5 13 (8.90%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.53%) Splunk
7 10 (6.85%) IBM
8 6 (4.11%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.42%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.42%) Dell
9 5 (3.42%) Google
9 5 (3.42%) SaltStack
9 5 (3.42%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.42%) Symantec
10 4 (2.74%) Citrix
10 4 (2.74%) NetApp
11 3 (2.05%) Mirantis
11 3 (2.05%) Pure Storage
12 2 (1.37%) D-Link
12 2 (1.37%) HP