Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 523 548
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 +58
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 165 427 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.41% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.30% 3.04% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 126 260 269
10th Percentile £51,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% +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 7,159 14,054 15,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 13.56% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 10,700 10,440
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary trend for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 16 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 31 May 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 -39 150 £70,000 +27.27% 147
UK excluding London -13 88 £62,500 +19.05% 99
London +64 69 £77,500 -4.62% 66
Work from Home -10 52 £70,000 +16.67% 127
South East +37 34 £60,500 +21.00% 24
North of England +5 21 £70,000 +33.33% 26
East of England +57 12 £71,250 +42.50% 7
Yorkshire +46 11 £70,000 +47.37% 17
Midlands +56 8 £61,250 +7.93% 9
North West -22 8 £74,870 +6.96% 8
Scotland +116 6 £37,500 -55.13% 14
West Midlands +51 5 £65,000 -22.23% 1
Wales +37 4 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East Midlands +39 3 £47,500 +35.71% 7
South West -8 3 £62,500 +19.05% 10
North East +51 2 £55,000 +46.67% 1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (9.09%) Apache
2 6 (3.64%) Confluence
2 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.42%) nginx
4 3 (1.82%) WinCC
5 1 (0.61%) Drupal
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.03%) AWS
2 36 (21.82%) Azure
3 18 (10.91%) GitHub
4 10 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (4.85%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.24%) PaaS
7 6 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.42%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.21%) IaaS
10 2 (1.21%) SaaS
10 2 (1.21%) Serverless
11 1 (0.61%) GCP
11 1 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.94%) Firewall
2 17 (10.30%) TCP/IP
3 12 (7.27%) Ethernet
4 11 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
4 11 (6.67%) DNS
4 11 (6.67%) MPLS
5 10 (6.06%) LAN
6 9 (5.45%) SAN
7 8 (4.85%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (4.24%) DHCP
8 7 (4.24%) WAN
9 6 (3.64%) VPN
10 4 (2.42%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (2.42%) HTTP
10 4 (2.42%) NAS
10 4 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (2.42%) VoIP
11 3 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.82%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.64%) MySQL
3 6 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.03%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.42%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.61%) DB2
7 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (20.61%) Git
2 10 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.85%) GitLab
3 8 (4.85%) JIRA
4 7 (4.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.42%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.42%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.61%) Ant
6 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) MSI
6 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 48 (29.09%) Finance
2 38 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.76%) Banking
4 16 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.85%) Military
6 5 (3.03%) Electronics
6 5 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.42%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.42%) Law
8 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.21%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (20.00%) Administrator
2 27 (16.36%) Systems Administrator
3 25 (15.15%) Linux Administrator
3 25 (15.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 25 (15.15%) Senior
4 15 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Linux Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.88%) Architect
6 13 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Integration Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Lead
8 9 (5.45%) Linux Support
9 7 (4.24%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 7 (4.24%) Network Architect
9 7 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.64%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.06%) Middleware
2 7 (4.24%) REST
3 5 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.82%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.82%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (1.82%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.21%) .NET
5 2 (1.21%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.21%) Kafka
6 1 (0.61%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.61%) CSS
6 1 (0.61%) HTML
6 1 (0.61%) JSON
6 1 (0.61%) Laravel
6 1 (0.61%) Next.js
6 1 (0.61%) Node.js
6 1 (0.61%) React
6 1 (0.61%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.70%) Hybrid Cloud
1 16 (9.70%) Management Information System
2 15 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 12 (7.27%) Clustering
4 11 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 10 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (5.45%) Security Posture
7 8 (4.85%) Public Cloud
8 7 (4.24%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.42%) SCADA
10 3 (1.82%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.82%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.82%) Equities
10 3 (1.82%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.82%) FPGA
10 3 (1.82%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.82%) Replication
10 3 (1.82%) Verilog
10 3 (1.82%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 165 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (29.09%) Windows
3 26 (15.76%) CentOS
3 26 (15.76%) Windows Server
4 19 (11.52%) Unix
5 12 (7.27%) Ubuntu
6 7 (4.24%) Solaris
6 7 (4.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.64%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.42%) Rocky
9 3 (1.82%) Debian
9 3 (1.82%) HPUX
9 3 (1.82%) VMS
9 3 (1.82%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.21%) SUSE
10 2 (1.21%) zOS
11 1 (0.61%) AIX
11 1 (0.61%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.61%) DevOps
2 30 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (16.97%) CI/CD
3 28 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (15.76%) ITIL
5 24 (14.55%) Containerisation
5 24 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (13.33%) Configuration Management
7 21 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (12.12%) Performance Monitoring
9 18 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (10.91%) Roadmaps
10 16 (9.70%) Agile
11 15 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (8.48%) Computer Science
13 13 (7.88%) Customer Service
14 12 (7.27%) Infrastructure Automation
14 12 (7.27%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (6.67%) Mentoring
15 11 (6.67%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (30.30%) Python
2 46 (27.88%) Bash
3 28 (16.97%) PowerShell
4 16 (9.70%) SQL
5 10 (6.06%) PHP
6 8 (4.85%) Perl
7 6 (3.64%) C++
7 6 (3.64%) Java
7 6 (3.64%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.03%) C#
9 3 (1.82%) R
9 3 (1.82%) SystemVerilog
9 3 (1.82%) Tcl
9 3 (1.82%) VB
10 2 (1.21%) Korn
10 2 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) COBOL
11 1 (0.61%) Groovy
11 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.15%) Degree
3 22 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 20 (12.12%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.85%) RHCSA
7 7 (4.24%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.64%) CCNA
9 4 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.82%) MCSE
10 3 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.21%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.21%) CCNP
11 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.61%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) SLA
2 5 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.42%) Def Stans
3 4 (2.42%) GDPR
4 3 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.82%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) NCSC
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) PMO
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 50 (30.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.52%) Docker
3 18 (10.91%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (9.09%) vSphere
5 13 (7.88%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (7.27%) Active Directory
7 8 (4.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 8 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (3.03%) NFS
9 4 (2.42%) Hyper-V
9 4 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (1.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (1.21%) Firmware
10 2 (1.21%) Postfix
11 1 (0.61%) KVM
Systems Management
1 74 (44.85%) Ansible
2 39 (23.64%) Terraform
3 30 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 19 (11.52%) Puppet
5 13 (7.88%) Nagios
6 11 (6.67%) Grafana
7 8 (4.85%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.03%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.42%) SCOM
9 4 (2.42%) WSUS
10 3 (1.82%) Functional Safety
10 3 (1.82%) Graylog
10 3 (1.82%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.82%) Rundeck
11 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (1.21%) Packer
11 2 (1.21%) Rancher
11 2 (1.21%) SCCM
11 2 (1.21%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.61%) WMI
Vendors
1 96 (58.18%) Red Hat
2 73 (44.24%) VMware
3 42 (25.45%) Cisco
4 23 (13.94%) Microsoft
5 18 (10.91%) Juniper
6 15 (9.09%) Oracle
7 12 (7.27%) Pure Storage
8 11 (6.67%) NetApp
8 11 (6.67%) SevOne
9 9 (5.45%) Atlassian
9 9 (5.45%) Commvault
10 8 (4.85%) Citrix
10 8 (4.85%) Veritas
11 7 (4.24%) SolarWinds
11 7 (4.24%) Symantec
12 6 (3.64%) Dell
12 6 (3.64%) Splunk
13 5 (3.03%) ServiceNow
14 4 (2.42%) EMC
14 4 (2.42%) Palo Alto