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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 501 486
Rank change year-on-year -112 -15 -40
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 189 181 330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.95% 2.74% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 141 129 236
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £41,401
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +13.92% -8.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.03% +14.76% -

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 6,396 6,611 9,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.80% 13.48% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,788 4,326 6,520
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
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 £65,000
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% -4.58%

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 4 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 4 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 -82 179 £70,000 +3.32% 151
UK excluding London -68 131 £67,500 +12.03% 84
London -77 55 £75,000 -6.25% 81
South East -33 47 £67,500 +9.76% 23
North of England -32 43 £97,500 +50.00% 21
North West +8 31 £55,000 -26.54% 15
Work from Home -84 25 £67,500 - 54
South West -57 20 £75,000 +20.00% 20
Scotland +10 8 £63,451 +49.30% 8
Midlands -40 7 £75,000 +30.43% 4
East of England -33 6 £48,750 +12.07% 9
Yorkshire -46 6 £97,500 +50.00% 3
North East -58 6 £97,500 +77.27% 3
East Midlands -35 5 £75,000 +30.43%
West Midlands -29 2 - - 4

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 (5.29%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.76%) Confluence
2 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.70%) Apache
4 5 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.06%) JBoss
5 2 (1.06%) nginx
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (5.29%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 67 (35.45%) AWS
2 40 (21.16%) Azure
3 24 (12.70%) GitHub
4 13 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.35%) OpenShift
6 10 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.70%) Datadog
7 7 (3.70%) Serverless
8 6 (3.17%) GCP
9 5 (2.65%) IaaS
9 5 (2.65%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.12%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (20.63%) DNS
2 29 (15.34%) Firewall
3 21 (11.11%) SAN
4 15 (7.94%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.88%) LAN
6 8 (4.23%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.23%) WAN
7 7 (3.70%) HTTP
7 7 (3.70%) iSCSI
7 7 (3.70%) Wireshark
8 6 (3.17%) NAS
8 6 (3.17%) NetScaler
9 5 (2.65%) AMQP
9 5 (2.65%) DHCP
9 5 (2.65%) Kerberos
9 5 (2.65%) VSAN
10 3 (1.59%) SSL
10 3 (1.59%) VoIP
11 2 (1.06%) VPN
12 1 (0.53%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.35%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.70%) MySQL
4 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.17%) Big Data
6 5 (2.65%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.53%) GIS
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (19.58%) Git
2 33 (17.46%) GitLab
3 31 (16.40%) Jenkins
4 25 (13.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (6.35%) JIRA
6 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.06%) Maven
8 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (38.62%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.93%) Finance
3 27 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.47%) Banking
6 12 (6.35%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.17%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.12%) Military
11 3 (1.59%) Front Office
11 3 (1.59%) Legal
11 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.06%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Police
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (16.93%) Senior
2 27 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 25 (13.23%) Administrator
4 21 (11.11%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 21 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (10.58%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (9.52%) Applications Architect
6 18 (9.52%) Architect
7 13 (6.88%) Lead
7 13 (6.88%) Security Architect
8 12 (6.35%) DBA
9 11 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.29%) Oracle DBA
10 10 (5.29%) Senior DBA
10 10 (5.29%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 9 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
12 8 (4.23%) AIX Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (4.23%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (31.75%) Terraform
2 22 (11.64%) LDAP
3 21 (11.11%) Regular Expression
4 19 (10.05%) XMPP
5 6 (3.17%) JSON
5 6 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.17%) React
6 5 (2.65%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.65%) gRPC
6 5 (2.65%) JSON Schema
6 5 (2.65%) Material-UI
6 5 (2.65%) Node.js
6 5 (2.65%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.65%) REST
6 5 (2.65%) Spring
6 5 (2.65%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.65%) Swagger
6 5 (2.65%) WebSockets
6 5 (2.65%) XML
7 4 (2.12%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.58%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.05%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.29%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.29%) PKI
4 8 (4.23%) Social Media
5 7 (3.70%) Replication
6 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (2.65%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.12%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.12%) Clustering
8 4 (2.12%) Web3
9 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.59%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (100.00%) Linux
2 71 (37.57%) Windows
3 61 (32.28%) Windows Server
4 56 (29.63%) CentOS
5 29 (15.34%) Unix
6 23 (12.17%) Ubuntu
7 20 (10.58%) AIX
8 17 (8.99%) Debian
9 14 (7.41%) Rocky
10 12 (6.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (5.29%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (2.65%) CoreOS
12 5 (2.65%) OpenVMS
12 5 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (2.12%) Solaris
14 3 (1.59%) VMS
15 2 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.45%) DevOps
2 58 (30.69%) CI/CD
3 42 (22.22%) ITIL
4 41 (21.69%) Platform Engineering
5 40 (21.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (17.99%) High Availability
6 34 (17.99%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (17.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 31 (16.40%) SIEM
9 30 (15.87%) Configuration Management
9 30 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (13.76%) Microservices
11 26 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (11.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 22 (11.64%) Roadmaps
14 21 (11.11%) Agile
15 20 (10.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.10%) Python
2 53 (28.04%) Bash
3 29 (15.34%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.70%) SQL
5 23 (12.17%) Shell Script
6 20 (10.58%) Java
7 17 (8.99%) Korn
8 11 (5.82%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.23%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.65%) PHP
11 4 (2.12%) Perl
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) C++
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 88 (46.56%) Security Cleared
2 60 (31.75%) DV Cleared
3 41 (21.69%) SC Cleared
4 22 (11.64%) Degree
5 8 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.70%) RHCSA
7 6 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (2.65%) CCSP
8 5 (2.65%) CISM
8 5 (2.65%) CISSP
9 4 (2.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.12%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.59%) CCNA
10 3 (1.59%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.59%) MCSA
10 3 (1.59%) MCSE
10 3 (1.59%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.65%) GDPR
1 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.65%) NIST
1 5 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.12%) SLA
3 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 59 (31.22%) Docker
2 45 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 27 (14.29%) vSphere
4 25 (13.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (6.88%) Hyper-V
6 12 (6.35%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (5.82%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (2.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (1.06%) Xen
11 1 (0.53%) KVM
11 1 (0.53%) NFS
11 1 (0.53%) Samba
11 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (37.57%) Ansible
2 62 (32.80%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.34%) Puppet
4 21 (11.11%) Nagios
5 13 (6.88%) Data Guard
6 12 (6.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (5.29%) ZABBIX
8 9 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (4.23%) Podman
10 7 (3.70%) Grafana
11 5 (2.65%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (2.65%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.65%) SCVMM
12 4 (2.12%) Argo
12 4 (2.12%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (2.12%) NetBackup
12 4 (2.12%) Prometheus
13 3 (1.59%) WSUS
14 2 (1.06%) Nessus
14 2 (1.06%) SCOM
Vendors
1 118 (62.43%) Red Hat
2 51 (26.98%) VMware
3 41 (21.69%) Microsoft
4 22 (11.64%) Oracle
5 20 (10.58%) McAfee
6 12 (6.35%) IBM
6 12 (6.35%) NetApp
6 12 (6.35%) Splunk
7 8 (4.23%) Citrix
7 8 (4.23%) Dell
7 8 (4.23%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.70%) Veeam
9 6 (3.17%) Google
9 6 (3.17%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.65%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.65%) Ivanti
10 5 (2.65%) Qualys
10 5 (2.65%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.65%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.65%) Veracode