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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 489 435
Rank change year-on-year -3 -54 +130
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 165 283 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.40% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.73% 3.07% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 109 197 249
10th Percentile £46,225 £40,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.80% -1.82% +4.76%

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 6,038 9,211 9,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.27% 12.98% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,982 5,364 7,698
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +1.06% +4.44%

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025. 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 +9 156 £66,250 +1.92% 53
London +53 84 £82,500 -2.94% 19
UK excluding London -2 75 £58,750 +8.80% 46
Work from Home +4 60 £70,000 +12.00% 74
South East -2 34 £69,000 +53.33% 22
East of England +4 12 £43,000 -25.22% 1
North of England +2 10 £65,000 -0.71% 6
Midlands +36 9 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Yorkshire +14 7 £65,000 -0.71% 1
East Midlands +17 6 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Scotland -10 6 £42,500 -51.43% 3
South West 0 5 £56,250 -25.00% 11
West Midlands +41 3 £52,500 -19.80% 1
North West -5 2 £60,000 -8.35% 2
North East +10 1 £55,000 -15.98% 3

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 24 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (11.52%) WebSphere
3 15 (9.09%) Apache
3 15 (9.09%) Tomcat
4 14 (8.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (2.42%) JBoss
6 3 (1.82%) Skype for Business
7 2 (1.21%) WildFly
8 1 (0.61%) Confluence
8 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 64 (38.79%) AWS
2 34 (20.61%) Azure
3 22 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (12.73%) GitHub
5 11 (6.67%) Cohesity
6 10 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.06%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.85%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.24%) Route 53
8 7 (4.24%) Serverless
9 6 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.42%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.82%) GCP
13 2 (1.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.97%) Firewall
2 23 (13.94%) SAN
3 19 (11.52%) TCP/IP
4 18 (10.91%) LAN
5 17 (10.30%) DNS
6 15 (9.09%) SSL
6 15 (9.09%) WAN
7 13 (7.88%) DHCP
8 12 (7.27%) Fibre Channel
8 12 (7.27%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (6.67%) iSCSI
10 7 (4.24%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (3.64%) VSAN
12 4 (2.42%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (2.42%) VoIP
13 3 (1.82%) HTTP
13 3 (1.82%) Skype
13 3 (1.82%) VPN
14 2 (1.21%) Multicast
14 2 (1.21%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.76%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (14.55%) SQL Server
3 16 (9.70%) DB2
4 13 (7.88%) MySQL
5 7 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.21%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (24.24%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) GitLab
3 9 (5.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.42%) Ant
4 4 (2.42%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.42%) JIRA
4 4 (2.42%) Maven
4 4 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.61%) MSI
5 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 54 (32.73%) Finance
2 48 (29.09%) Social Skills
3 27 (16.36%) Banking
4 15 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.85%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.64%) Law
8 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.42%) Electronics
9 4 (2.42%) Marketing
9 4 (2.42%) Military
10 2 (1.21%) Advertising
10 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.21%) Front Office
10 2 (1.21%) Retail
10 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (27.88%) Linux Engineer
2 37 (22.42%) Administrator
3 23 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (13.94%) Linux Administrator
3 23 (13.94%) Linux Support
4 20 (12.12%) Systems Administrator
5 17 (10.30%) Cisco Engineer
5 17 (10.30%) Senior
6 16 (9.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (9.09%) Applications Support
8 14 (8.48%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 14 (8.48%) Support Engineer
9 13 (7.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 13 (7.88%) VMware Engineer
10 12 (7.27%) Linux Support Engineer
11 10 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
11 10 (6.06%) Lead
11 10 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (6.06%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.48%) LAPP Stack
1 14 (8.48%) LDAP
1 14 (8.48%) WebSphere MQ
2 6 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.03%) Middleware
4 4 (2.42%) .NET
4 4 (2.42%) Kafka
4 4 (2.42%) REST
5 3 (1.82%) LAMP
5 3 (1.82%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.21%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.21%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.39%) Management Information System
2 21 (12.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (12.73%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.06%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.45%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.82%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.82%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.82%) PKI
7 3 (1.82%) RSA SecurID
8 2 (1.21%) Clustering
8 2 (1.21%) Derivative
8 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Replication
9 1 (0.61%) FPGA
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.61%) NVMe
9 1 (0.61%) Verilog
9 1 (0.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 165 (100.00%) Linux
2 79 (47.88%) Windows
3 35 (21.21%) CentOS
4 33 (20.00%) Unix
5 30 (18.18%) Windows Server
6 22 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (9.09%) Solaris
8 11 (6.67%) Ubuntu
9 10 (6.06%) Debian
9 10 (6.06%) Windows 10
10 8 (4.85%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (3.03%) HPUX
12 4 (2.42%) AIX
12 4 (2.42%) CoreOS
12 4 (2.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (1.21%) VMS
13 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.61%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.33%) ITIL
2 51 (30.91%) DevOps
3 33 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 31 (18.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 26 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (13.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (11.52%) Change Management
7 19 (11.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (10.91%) Incident Response
8 18 (10.91%) Release Management
9 17 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.30%) Time Management
10 14 (8.48%) CI/CD
10 14 (8.48%) Incident Management
10 14 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (7.27%) Low Latency
12 12 (7.27%) Mentoring
12 12 (7.27%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 68 (41.21%) Python
2 54 (32.73%) Bash
3 25 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 19 (11.52%) Korn
5 11 (6.67%) SQL
6 9 (5.45%) PHP
7 7 (4.24%) Java
8 4 (2.42%) Groovy
8 4 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.82%) C++
9 3 (1.82%) Perl
10 2 (1.21%) C
11 1 (0.61%) C#
11 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.61%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.61%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (21.82%) Degree
1 36 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.94%) DV Cleared
3 22 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 15 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.48%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (6.67%) CCNA
7 11 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (6.67%) RHCSA
8 10 (6.06%) MCSE
8 10 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.24%) RHCE
10 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.21%) CCNP
12 2 (1.21%) Dell Certification
12 2 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.76%) SLA
2 9 (5.45%) QA
3 4 (2.42%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (17.58%) Active Directory
3 24 (14.55%) vSphere
4 20 (12.12%) Docker
5 17 (10.30%) NFS
6 12 (7.27%) Hyper-V
7 11 (6.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.21%) pfSense
10 2 (1.21%) Postfix
10 2 (1.21%) Samba
11 1 (0.61%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.61%) KVM
11 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (44.85%) Ansible
2 50 (30.30%) Kubernetes
3 37 (22.42%) Terraform
4 14 (8.48%) Puppet
4 14 (8.48%) WSUS
5 12 (7.27%) SCOM
6 10 (6.06%) Grafana
6 10 (6.06%) Nagios
7 8 (4.85%) SCCM
8 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (3.64%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (3.03%) Podman
11 4 (2.42%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.21%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (1.21%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.21%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.61%) WMI
Vendors
1 91 (55.15%) Red Hat
2 70 (42.42%) VMware
3 43 (26.06%) Microsoft
4 38 (23.03%) Cisco
5 23 (13.94%) Commvault
6 21 (12.73%) IBM
7 18 (10.91%) Oracle
8 17 (10.30%) Splunk
9 15 (9.09%) Dell
10 14 (8.48%) Pure Storage
11 11 (6.67%) ServiceNow
12 8 (4.85%) NetApp
13 6 (3.64%) SolarWinds
14 5 (3.03%) HP
15 2 (1.21%) ArcSight
15 2 (1.21%) EMC
15 2 (1.21%) Juniper
15 2 (1.21%) McAfee
15 2 (1.21%) SAP
15 2 (1.21%) Veeam