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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 500 563
Rank change year-on-year -44 +63 -19
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 172 155 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.20% 2.33% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 139 123 262
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,500 £38,764
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £98,126
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% +5.00%

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 5,368 6,650 13,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.94% 15.21% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,950 4,404 10,786
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,688 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,095 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.74% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -33 155 £62,500 -10.71% 71
UK excluding London -35 88 £67,500 +3.85% 53
London +4 77 £57,500 -25.81% 25
South East +14 46 £67,500 +17.39% 15
Work from Home -12 27 £70,000 - 14
North West +5 18 £55,000 -26.54% 5
North of England -38 18 £55,000 -21.43% 12
South West -41 12 £75,000 +4.18% 17
Scotland +4 10 £46,000 +5.14%
East of England -27 1 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 19 (11.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.40%) Apache
3 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.91%) Confluence
5 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.33%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.74%) CMS
6 3 (1.74%) WordPress
7 2 (1.16%) IIS
7 2 (1.16%) nginx
7 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.16%) AWS
2 33 (19.19%) Azure
3 12 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (5.23%) OpenShift
5 9 (5.23%) SaaS
6 8 (4.65%) IaaS
7 7 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.49%) Datadog
8 6 (3.49%) GCP
8 6 (3.49%) Serverless
9 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.33%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.33%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.74%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.74%) GitHub
11 3 (1.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (30.23%) DNS
2 31 (18.02%) SAN
3 30 (17.44%) Firewall
4 25 (14.53%) TCP/IP
5 21 (12.21%) LAN
6 18 (10.47%) HTTP
7 14 (8.14%) Wireshark
8 12 (6.98%) Multicast
9 11 (6.40%) NAS
9 11 (6.40%) WAN
10 9 (5.23%) iSCSI
11 8 (4.65%) NetScaler
11 8 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (3.49%) ATM
12 6 (3.49%) DHCP
12 6 (3.49%) tcpdump
13 4 (2.33%) AMQP
14 3 (1.74%) SNMP
14 3 (1.74%) VSAN
15 2 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.81%) MySQL
4 7 (4.07%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.33%) Big Data
5 4 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.74%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.58%) Power BI
7 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.58%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (9.30%) Git
2 12 (6.98%) GitLab
3 10 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.65%) JIRA
5 6 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.74%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.74%) TestRail
8 1 (0.58%) git-flow
8 1 (0.58%) Maven
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.58%) Finance
3 21 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.30%) Banking
5 13 (7.56%) Aerospace
6 11 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Front Office
8 7 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.49%) Automotive
9 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.49%) Spanish Language
10 4 (2.33%) Advertising
10 4 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.16%) Military
11 2 (1.16%) Retail
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (19.19%) Administrator
2 32 (18.60%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (13.37%) Linux Administrator
4 21 (12.21%) Senior
5 19 (11.05%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (10.47%) Linux Support
7 17 (9.88%) Support Engineer
8 16 (9.30%) Applications Architect
8 16 (9.30%) Architect
9 14 (8.14%) Linux Support Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 11 (6.40%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 10 (5.81%) Lead
12 10 (5.81%) Security Architect
13 8 (4.65%) Developer
13 8 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support
14 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 7 (4.07%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.30%) Regular Expression
2 15 (8.72%) LDAP
3 12 (6.98%) XMPP
4 10 (5.81%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.49%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (3.49%) Middleware
6 5 (2.91%) REST
7 4 (2.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.33%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.33%) gRPC
7 4 (2.33%) JSON Schema
7 4 (2.33%) Material-UI
7 4 (2.33%) Node.js
7 4 (2.33%) OpenAPI
7 4 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.33%) React
7 4 (2.33%) Spring
7 4 (2.33%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.33%) Swagger
7 4 (2.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.53%) Data Centre
2 15 (8.72%) PKI
3 14 (8.14%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.14%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.65%) Clustering
5 6 (3.49%) Derivative
5 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.33%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.33%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.33%) Replication
7 4 (2.33%) Web3
8 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.16%) FPGA
10 1 (0.58%) Equities
10 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 172 (100.00%) Linux
2 63 (36.63%) Windows
3 52 (30.23%) Windows Server
4 42 (24.42%) CentOS
5 22 (12.79%) Ubuntu
5 22 (12.79%) Unix
6 12 (6.98%) Debian
7 8 (4.65%) AIX
7 8 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (4.07%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.91%) Solaris
9 5 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.74%) CoreOS
10 3 (1.74%) VMS
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (1.16%) Rocky
11 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.33%) DevOps
2 46 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (20.35%) CI/CD
4 30 (17.44%) SIEM
5 29 (16.86%) ITIL
6 27 (15.70%) High Availability
7 26 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (13.37%) Configuration Management
9 21 (12.21%) Validation
10 20 (11.63%) Agile
10 20 (11.63%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (11.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (7.56%) Antivirus Management
14 13 (7.56%) Application Security
14 13 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (7.56%) Observability
14 13 (7.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (34.88%) Python
2 53 (30.81%) Bash
3 28 (16.28%) PowerShell
4 27 (15.70%) SQL
5 14 (8.14%) Perl
6 13 (7.56%) PHP
7 12 (6.98%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.40%) Korn
9 9 (5.23%) Java
10 7 (4.07%) C++
11 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.33%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.16%) C
13 1 (0.58%) Groovy
13 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 35 (20.35%) DV Cleared
3 18 (10.47%) Degree
4 13 (7.56%) RHCSA
4 13 (7.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.33%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.33%) RHCE
9 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.16%) CCNA
10 2 (1.16%) MCSE
11 1 (0.58%) CCSP
11 1 (0.58%) CISSP
11 1 (0.58%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.58%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.23%) SLA
2 2 (1.16%) NIST
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.58%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (27.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 43 (25.00%) Docker
3 31 (18.02%) vSphere
4 9 (5.23%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 7 (4.07%) KVM
7 5 (2.91%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (2.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.16%) Samba
10 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (31.98%) Ansible
2 51 (29.65%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.93%) Terraform
4 23 (13.37%) Puppet
5 22 (12.79%) Nagios
6 10 (5.81%) Grafana
7 8 (4.65%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (4.65%) WSUS
8 6 (3.49%) Data Guard
8 6 (3.49%) Podman
9 5 (2.91%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.91%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.33%) Argo
10 4 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.74%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.74%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.58%) Packer
Vendors
1 116 (67.44%) Red Hat
2 80 (46.51%) VMware
3 36 (20.93%) Microsoft
4 18 (10.47%) McAfee
5 15 (8.72%) Oracle
6 11 (6.40%) Dell
6 11 (6.40%) SolarWinds
7 10 (5.81%) Splunk
8 8 (4.65%) Citrix
8 8 (4.65%) NetApp
9 5 (2.91%) Google
9 5 (2.91%) Symantec
10 4 (2.33%) IBM
10 4 (2.33%) Mirantis
10 4 (2.33%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.74%) HP
11 3 (1.74%) Pure Storage
12 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.16%) Veeam