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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 508 533
Rank change year-on-year -38 +25 -69
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 126 199 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.46% 2.65% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 85 113 226
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,991 £42,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £99,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +5.26%

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 5,118 7,518 11,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.69% 15.08% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,744 4,255 9,385
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.95% +11.76% -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 February 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 February 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 -29 114 £57,500 -11.54% 39
London +27 77 £75,000 -3.23% 18
UK excluding London -41 40 £50,000 -13.04% 29
Work from Home +6 33 £85,000 +30.77% 12
South East +6 16 £50,000 -13.04% 12
South West -27 9 £60,000 -16.66% 7
North West +18 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
North of England -13 8 £55,000 - 5
Scotland -19 4 £65,000 +48.57% 3
East of England -5 3 £42,500 -26.09% 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 18 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 14 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 12 (9.52%) Apache
3 12 (9.52%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (4.76%) Confluence
4 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (4.76%) SharePoint
5 5 (3.97%) Apache Spark
5 5 (3.97%) IIS
6 3 (2.38%) CMS
6 3 (2.38%) WordPress
7 2 (1.59%) nginx
8 1 (0.79%) JBoss
8 1 (0.79%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.51%) AWS
2 20 (15.87%) Azure
3 18 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 13 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.94%) SaaS
6 10 (7.94%) Serverless
7 6 (4.76%) GCP
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.97%) Route 53
9 4 (3.17%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.38%) Cohesity
10 3 (2.38%) IaaS
11 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (20.63%) DNS
2 17 (13.49%) TCP/IP
3 15 (11.90%) Multicast
4 14 (11.11%) LAN
5 13 (10.32%) SSL
6 12 (9.52%) SAN
7 11 (8.73%) WAN
8 9 (7.14%) Firewall
8 9 (7.14%) HTTP
9 8 (6.35%) DHCP
10 7 (5.56%) VSAN
11 5 (3.97%) AMQP
12 3 (2.38%) ATM
12 3 (2.38%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (2.38%) tcpdump
12 3 (2.38%) Wireshark
13 2 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (1.59%) SNMP
13 2 (1.59%) VoIP
13 2 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.11%) DB2
2 14 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.76%) Big Data
5 5 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.97%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.97%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.97%) MySQL
6 4 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.38%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.79%) Power BI
8 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.79%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.79%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Git
2 11 (8.73%) GitLab
3 10 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.56%) JIRA
5 6 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.38%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.38%) TestRail
8 1 (0.79%) Ant
8 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.79%) Maven
8 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (37.30%) Finance
2 26 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.87%) Banking
4 13 (10.32%) Front Office
5 8 (6.35%) Aerospace
5 8 (6.35%) Investment Banking
5 8 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Advertising
8 3 (2.38%) Automotive
9 2 (1.59%) Electronics
9 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.59%) Military
9 2 (1.59%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (25.40%) Administrator
2 31 (24.60%) Linux Support
3 28 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
4 23 (18.25%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (16.67%) Support Engineer
6 18 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
7 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (10.32%) Applications Support
8 13 (10.32%) C++ Developer
8 13 (10.32%) Developer
8 13 (10.32%) Unix Support
9 12 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (7.14%) Senior
11 8 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) Linux Specialist
11 8 (6.35%) Support Specialist
12 7 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 6 (4.76%) DBA
14 5 (3.97%) 3rd Line Support
14 5 (3.97%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.11%) LDAP
2 12 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (9.52%) LAPP Stack
2 12 (9.52%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (6.35%) Middleware
4 7 (5.56%) Kafka
5 6 (4.76%) REST
6 5 (3.97%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.97%) gRPC
6 5 (3.97%) Material-UI
6 5 (3.97%) Node.js
6 5 (3.97%) OpenAPI
6 5 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.97%) React
6 5 (3.97%) Spring
6 5 (3.97%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.97%) Swagger
7 4 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.38%) LAMP
8 3 (2.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (9.52%) Derivative
2 12 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.14%) Clustering
3 9 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.97%) PKI
4 5 (3.97%) Replication
5 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.17%) Video on Demand
5 4 (3.17%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.59%) FPGA
8 1 (0.79%) Equities
8 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 126 (100.00%) Linux
2 42 (33.33%) Windows
3 40 (31.75%) CentOS
4 29 (23.02%) Unix
5 22 (17.46%) Windows Server
6 16 (12.70%) Ubuntu
7 12 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (8.73%) Debian
8 11 (8.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (4.76%) Solaris
10 5 (3.97%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (3.97%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.17%) AIX
11 4 (3.17%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (23.02%) ITIL
3 21 (16.67%) DevOps
4 20 (15.87%) Change Management
5 19 (15.08%) Agile
6 18 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (12.70%) Configuration Management
7 16 (12.70%) Containerisation
8 14 (11.11%) Low Latency
9 13 (10.32%) Release Management
9 13 (10.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 12 (9.52%) Concurrent Programming
10 12 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (9.52%) SOA
10 12 (9.52%) Systems Analysis
10 12 (9.52%) Unit Testing
11 11 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (7.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (53.17%) Python
2 43 (34.13%) Bash
3 21 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 15 (11.90%) Perl
4 15 (11.90%) SQL
5 14 (11.11%) C++
6 10 (7.94%) PHP
7 9 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 8 (6.35%) Java
9 6 (4.76%) Korn
10 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.79%) C
12 1 (0.79%) C#
12 1 (0.79%) Groovy
12 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.87%) Degree
3 18 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 17 (13.49%) DV Cleared
4 17 (13.49%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (7.94%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.97%) RHCSA
7 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.38%) RHCE
9 1 (0.79%) CCNA
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (1.59%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (26.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (16.67%) Docker
3 19 (15.08%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.35%) vSphere
5 6 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.38%) KVM
7 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.59%) NFS
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.79%) pfSense
9 1 (0.79%) Postfix
9 1 (0.79%) Samba
9 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (34.92%) Ansible
2 28 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.29%) Terraform
4 15 (11.90%) Puppet
5 11 (8.73%) Nagios
6 9 (7.14%) Grafana
7 6 (4.76%) McAfee ePO
7 6 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.76%) SCVMM
8 5 (3.97%) Podman
8 5 (3.97%) WSUS
9 4 (3.17%) Data Guard
9 4 (3.17%) Prometheus
9 4 (3.17%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.79%) Graylog
11 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (63.49%) Red Hat
2 40 (31.75%) VMware
3 16 (12.70%) Oracle
4 15 (11.90%) IBM
5 11 (8.73%) McAfee
6 9 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 9 (7.14%) Splunk
7 5 (3.97%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.97%) Cisco
7 5 (3.97%) Google
7 5 (3.97%) SaltStack
7 5 (3.97%) Symantec
8 3 (2.38%) Commvault
8 3 (2.38%) Dell
8 3 (2.38%) NetApp
8 3 (2.38%) Pure Storage
8 3 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.59%) HP
9 2 (1.59%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.59%) Mirantis