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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 498 500
Rank change year-on-year -106 +2 -56
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 192 178 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.97% 2.72% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 138 125 224
10th Percentile £46,885 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,563 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £97,431
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.15% +11.90% -

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 6,456 6,553 9,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.69% 13.21% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,809 4,264 6,151
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -4.26%

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 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 15 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 13 September 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 -81 183 £70,000 +7.69% 151
UK excluding London -61 134 £70,000 +19.15% 84
London -72 55 £75,000 -6.25% 73
North of England -23 47 £97,500 +50.00% 17
South East -29 46 £67,500 +4.25% 22
North West +15 34 £55,000 -26.54% 13
Work from Home -77 25 £67,500 -3.57% 101
South West -54 21 £75,000 +25.00% 15
Scotland +9 7 £63,451 +49.30% 5
Yorkshire -45 7 £97,500 +50.00% 1
Midlands -59 7 £75,000 +30.43% 6
East of England -39 6 £48,750 +12.07% 24
North East -56 6 £97,500 +77.27% 3
East Midlands -34 5 £75,000 +30.43%
West Midlands -41 2 - - 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 10 (5.21%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.69%) Confluence
2 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.17%) Apache
4 6 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.04%) JBoss
5 2 (1.04%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 68 (35.42%) AWS
2 41 (21.35%) Azure
3 24 (12.50%) GitHub
4 14 (7.29%) OpenShift
5 13 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.17%) Serverless
8 7 (3.65%) Datadog
8 7 (3.65%) GCP
9 5 (2.60%) IaaS
9 5 (2.60%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.08%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.56%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 37 (19.27%) DNS
2 28 (14.58%) Firewall
3 20 (10.42%) SAN
4 14 (7.29%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.77%) LAN
6 8 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.17%) WAN
7 7 (3.65%) HTTP
7 7 (3.65%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.13%) AMQP
9 5 (2.60%) DHCP
9 5 (2.60%) Kerberos
9 5 (2.60%) NAS
9 5 (2.60%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.60%) VSAN
9 5 (2.60%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.56%) SSL
10 3 (1.56%) VoIP
11 2 (1.04%) VPN
12 1 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.65%) Big Data
5 7 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.65%) MySQL
5 7 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.52%) GIS
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (19.27%) Git
2 33 (17.19%) GitLab
3 31 (16.15%) Jenkins
4 25 (13.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (6.25%) JIRA
6 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.04%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.52%) git-flow
8 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.19%) Finance
3 27 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.02%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.33%) Banking
6 15 (7.81%) Aerospace
7 11 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.08%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.08%) Military
12 3 (1.56%) Front Office
12 3 (1.56%) Legal
12 3 (1.56%) Retail
12 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.04%) Advertising
14 1 (0.52%) Law
14 1 (0.52%) Police
14 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (17.19%) Senior
2 29 (15.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.06%) Linux Engineer
4 25 (13.02%) Administrator
5 21 (10.94%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.94%) Principal Engineer
6 20 (10.42%) Systems Administrator
7 16 (8.33%) Applications Architect
7 16 (8.33%) Architect
8 13 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.77%) Lead
9 12 (6.25%) DBA
9 12 (6.25%) Security Architect
10 10 (5.21%) Oracle DBA
10 10 (5.21%) Senior DBA
10 10 (5.21%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 9 (4.69%) Linux Administrator
12 8 (4.17%) AIX Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.29%) Terraform
2 21 (10.94%) LDAP
3 20 (10.42%) Regular Expression
4 19 (9.90%) XMPP
5 7 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (3.65%) React
6 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.13%) gRPC
6 6 (3.13%) Material-UI
6 6 (3.13%) Node.js
6 6 (3.13%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.13%) REST
6 6 (3.13%) Spring
6 6 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.13%) Swagger
7 5 (2.60%) JSON
7 5 (2.60%) WebSockets
8 4 (2.08%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.08%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.90%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.69%) PKI
5 8 (4.17%) Social Media
6 7 (3.65%) Replication
7 6 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.60%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (2.60%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.08%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.08%) Clustering
9 4 (2.08%) Web3
10 3 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.56%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.56%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 192 (100.00%) Linux
2 71 (36.98%) Windows
3 60 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 58 (30.21%) CentOS
5 29 (15.10%) Unix
6 24 (12.50%) Ubuntu
7 20 (10.42%) AIX
8 18 (9.38%) Debian
9 14 (7.29%) Rocky
10 12 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (5.21%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (2.60%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.60%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (2.08%) Solaris
14 3 (1.56%) VMS
15 2 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.46%) DevOps
2 60 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 44 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (22.40%) ITIL
5 41 (21.35%) Platform Engineering
6 35 (18.23%) Technical Leadership
7 34 (17.71%) High Availability
8 33 (17.19%) Configuration Management
8 33 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (17.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 31 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (15.10%) SIEM
12 27 (14.06%) Microservices
13 25 (13.02%) Agile
13 25 (13.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (11.46%) Roadmaps
15 21 (10.94%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (29.69%) Python
2 55 (28.65%) Bash
3 29 (15.10%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.50%) SQL
5 22 (11.46%) Shell Script
6 21 (10.94%) Java
7 17 (8.85%) Korn
8 11 (5.73%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.69%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.60%) PHP
11 4 (2.08%) Perl
12 2 (1.04%) Go
13 1 (0.52%) C#
13 1 (0.52%) C++
13 1 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 91 (47.40%) Security Cleared
2 61 (31.77%) DV Cleared
3 44 (22.92%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.98%) Degree
5 8 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.65%) RHCSA
7 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.60%) CCSP
8 5 (2.60%) CISM
8 5 (2.60%) CISSP
9 4 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.08%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.56%) CCNA
10 3 (1.56%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.56%) MCSA
10 3 (1.56%) MCSE
10 3 (1.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) GDPR
1 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.60%) NIST
1 5 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 60 (31.25%) Docker
2 43 (22.40%) Active Directory
3 27 (14.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (14.06%) vSphere
4 13 (6.77%) Hyper-V
5 12 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
6 11 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (2.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.04%) Xen
10 1 (0.52%) NFS
10 1 (0.52%) Samba
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (39.06%) Ansible
2 62 (32.29%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.10%) Puppet
4 21 (10.94%) Nagios
5 13 (6.77%) Data Guard
6 12 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (5.21%) Podman
7 10 (5.21%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (5.21%) ZABBIX
8 7 (3.65%) Grafana
9 5 (2.60%) McAfee ePO
9 5 (2.60%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.60%) SCVMM
10 4 (2.08%) Argo
10 4 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.08%) NetBackup
10 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.56%) Nessus
11 3 (1.56%) SCOM
11 3 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 123 (64.06%) Red Hat
2 51 (26.56%) VMware
3 40 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 22 (11.46%) Oracle
5 20 (10.42%) McAfee
6 12 (6.25%) IBM
6 12 (6.25%) NetApp
6 12 (6.25%) Splunk
7 8 (4.17%) Citrix
7 8 (4.17%) Dell
7 8 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.65%) Google
8 7 (3.65%) Veeam
9 6 (3.13%) SaltStack
9 6 (3.13%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.60%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.60%) Qualys
10 5 (2.60%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.60%) Tenable
10 5 (2.60%) Veracode