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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 475 540
Rank change year-on-year -83 +65 -36
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 140 172 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.64% 2.68% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 102 120 239
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,313 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £96,625 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.42% +14.29% +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 5,303 6,421 12,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.09% 15.01% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,903 4,345 10,469
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,534
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.45% -11.36%
75th Percentile £65,063 £71,250 £62,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 18 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 18 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 -57 125 £60,000 -14.29% 61
London 0 74 £75,000 -6.25% 12
UK excluding London -73 58 £53,750 -10.42% 53
South East +4 34 £52,500 -12.50% 15
Work from Home -19 24 £85,000 +21.43% 29
South West -30 8 £57,500 -20.13% 7
North West -15 7 £55,000 -26.54% 10
Scotland -20 7 £46,000 +5.14% 3
North of England -54 7 £55,000 -21.43% 22
East of England -33 1 £70,000 +16.67% 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 (9.29%) Tomcat
2 12 (8.57%) Apache
3 11 (7.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (5.71%) SharePoint
4 8 (5.71%) WebSphere
5 7 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (4.29%) Confluence
7 5 (3.57%) Apache Spark
7 5 (3.57%) IIS
8 3 (2.14%) CMS
8 3 (2.14%) WordPress
9 2 (1.43%) nginx
9 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.43%) AWS
2 26 (18.57%) Azure
3 15 (10.71%) OpenShift
4 14 (10.00%) SaaS
5 11 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.71%) Serverless
7 7 (5.00%) IaaS
8 6 (4.29%) GCP
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (2.14%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Stack
9 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.14%) Route 53
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (30.00%) DNS
2 22 (15.71%) TCP/IP
3 19 (13.57%) Multicast
3 19 (13.57%) SAN
4 18 (12.86%) Firewall
5 16 (11.43%) LAN
6 15 (10.71%) HTTP
7 11 (7.86%) WAN
7 11 (7.86%) Wireshark
8 8 (5.71%) SSL
9 7 (5.00%) ATM
9 7 (5.00%) DHCP
9 7 (5.00%) NAS
9 7 (5.00%) tcpdump
10 5 (3.57%) AMQP
10 5 (3.57%) VSAN
11 4 (2.86%) NetScaler
12 3 (2.14%) iSCSI
12 3 (2.14%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.29%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.71%) DB2
4 7 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.29%) Big Data
5 6 (4.29%) MySQL
6 5 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
6 5 (3.57%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.14%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.71%) Power BI
9 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.71%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.71%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.71%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (10.71%) Git
2 12 (8.57%) GitLab
3 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.71%) JIRA
5 6 (4.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (4.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.14%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.14%) TestRail
General
1 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.57%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Banking
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.29%) Front Office
5 12 (8.57%) Aerospace
6 7 (5.00%) Automotive
6 7 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.29%) Spanish Language
8 5 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (20.71%) Administrator
1 29 (20.71%) Linux Support
2 28 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 22 (15.71%) Linux Administrator
3 22 (15.71%) Support Engineer
4 19 (13.57%) Linux Support Engineer
5 14 (10.00%) Senior
6 13 (9.29%) C++ Developer
6 13 (9.29%) Developer
6 13 (9.29%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure Support
8 10 (7.14%) Unix Support
9 9 (6.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 8 (5.71%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.71%) Linux Specialist
10 8 (5.71%) Support Specialist
11 7 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (5.00%) Applications Architect
11 7 (5.00%) Architect
11 7 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.00%) LDAP
2 12 (8.57%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (5.00%) LAPP Stack
3 7 (5.00%) Middleware
3 7 (5.00%) Regular Expression
3 7 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (4.29%) Kafka
4 6 (4.29%) REST
5 5 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.57%) gRPC
5 5 (3.57%) Material-UI
5 5 (3.57%) Node.js
5 5 (3.57%) OpenAPI
5 5 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (3.57%) React
5 5 (3.57%) Spring
5 5 (3.57%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.57%) Swagger
5 5 (3.57%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.14%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.57%) Derivative
3 11 (7.86%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.86%) PKI
4 9 (6.43%) Clustering
5 8 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.29%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.86%) Replication
8 4 (2.86%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.43%) FPGA
11 1 (0.71%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.71%) Equities
11 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 140 (100.00%) Linux
2 49 (35.00%) Windows
3 46 (32.86%) CentOS
4 36 (25.71%) Windows Server
5 20 (14.29%) Unix
6 19 (13.57%) Ubuntu
7 10 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (5.71%) Debian
10 6 (4.29%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.14%) AIX
12 3 (2.14%) CoreOS
13 2 (1.43%) Solaris
14 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (22.14%) DevOps
3 25 (17.86%) ITIL
4 24 (17.14%) Agile
5 22 (15.71%) CI/CD
5 22 (15.71%) Configuration Management
5 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (12.14%) Containerisation
7 16 (11.43%) SIEM
8 15 (10.71%) Change Management
8 15 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (10.00%) High Availability
9 14 (10.00%) Migration
10 13 (9.29%) Low Latency
11 12 (8.57%) Concurrent Programming
11 12 (8.57%) SOA
11 12 (8.57%) Systems Analysis
11 12 (8.57%) Unit Testing
11 12 (8.57%) Validation
12 11 (7.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.71%) Python
2 41 (29.29%) Bash
3 26 (18.57%) PowerShell
4 20 (14.29%) SQL
5 19 (13.57%) Perl
6 14 (10.00%) PHP
7 13 (9.29%) C++
7 13 (9.29%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.00%) Java
9 5 (3.57%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.57%) Korn
10 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.43%) C
12 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) Degree
4 13 (9.29%) AWS Certification
5 12 (8.57%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (6.43%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.71%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (2.14%) RHCE
10 1 (0.71%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.71%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (0.71%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.71%) NIST
2 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 41 (29.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (22.86%) Docker
3 30 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 21 (15.00%) vSphere
5 8 (5.71%) KVM
6 5 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (2.14%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.43%) Samba
9 1 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (35.00%) Ansible
2 44 (31.43%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.00%) Terraform
4 19 (13.57%) Puppet
5 16 (11.43%) Nagios
6 10 (7.14%) Grafana
7 7 (5.00%) WSUS
8 5 (3.57%) Data Guard
8 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.86%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.86%) SCVMM
10 3 (2.14%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (2.14%) Podman
10 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 2 (1.43%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.71%) Graylog
12 1 (0.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 82 (58.57%) Red Hat
2 60 (42.86%) VMware
3 16 (11.43%) Oracle
4 13 (9.29%) McAfee
5 11 (7.86%) IBM
5 11 (7.86%) Microsoft
6 10 (7.14%) Splunk
7 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.57%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.57%) Dell
8 5 (3.57%) Google
8 5 (3.57%) SaltStack
8 5 (3.57%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.57%) Symantec
9 4 (2.86%) Citrix
9 4 (2.86%) NetApp
10 3 (2.14%) Pure Storage
11 2 (1.43%) D-Link
11 2 (1.43%) HP
11 2 (1.43%) Mirantis