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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 499 449
Rank change year-on-year -12 -50 +11
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 132 211 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.39% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.70% 2.62% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 85 117 235
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +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 4,889 8,041 8,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.24% 14.97% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,623 4,540 7,116
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,769 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,200 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.48% +2.22% -

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the UK

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Top 10 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 11 January 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 +11 124 £60,000 -7.69% 46
London +55 81 £85,000 +3.03% 17
Work from Home +58 43 £85,000 +47.83% 11
UK excluding London -38 43 £50,000 -13.04% 32
South East +11 15 £50,000 +11.11% 11
East of England +8 11 £43,500 -24.35% 2
South West -18 8 £55,000 -23.60% 10
North West +28 7 £60,000 +50.00% 2
North of England +10 7 £60,000 +4.35% 6
Scotland -5 3 £53,750 +22.86%

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 22 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 19 (14.39%) WebSphere
3 16 (12.12%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (6.82%) Apache
5 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (3.79%) Confluence
6 5 (3.79%) IIS
7 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (2.27%) Skype for Business
8 2 (1.52%) JBoss
8 2 (1.52%) nginx
8 2 (1.52%) WildFly
9 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.39%) AWS
2 21 (15.91%) Azure
3 17 (12.88%) OpenShift
4 12 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (8.33%) Cohesity
6 10 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.58%) GitHub
6 10 (7.58%) Serverless
7 9 (6.82%) SaaS
8 8 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.30%) Route 53
10 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.79%) GCP
12 3 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudTrail
13 2 (1.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.88%) Firewall
1 17 (12.88%) SSL
2 16 (12.12%) DNS
3 15 (11.36%) LAN
3 15 (11.36%) TCP/IP
4 14 (10.61%) SAN
4 14 (10.61%) WAN
5 13 (9.85%) Multicast
6 7 (5.30%) VSAN
7 6 (4.55%) DHCP
7 6 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (3.79%) HTTP
9 3 (2.27%) AMQP
9 3 (2.27%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.27%) Skype
9 3 (2.27%) VPN
10 2 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.52%) NAS
10 2 (1.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.64%) DB2
4 8 (6.06%) MySQL
5 7 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.79%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.03%) Big Data
8 3 (2.27%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.27%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.52%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.76%) Power BI
10 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.76%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (12.88%) Git
2 14 (10.61%) GitLab
3 10 (7.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.30%) JIRA
5 6 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.52%) Ant
7 2 (1.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.52%) Maven
7 2 (1.52%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.52%) TestRail
General
1 52 (39.39%) Finance
2 25 (18.94%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.91%) Banking
4 12 (9.09%) Front Office
5 10 (7.58%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Advertising
9 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Electronics
10 2 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.52%) Military
11 1 (0.76%) Automotive
11 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (28.03%) Linux Engineer
2 33 (25.00%) Linux Support
3 31 (23.48%) Administrator
4 24 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
5 21 (15.91%) Support Engineer
6 18 (13.64%) Linux Support Engineer
7 17 (12.88%) Applications Support
7 17 (12.88%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (11.36%) Unix Support
9 12 (9.09%) C++ Developer
9 12 (9.09%) Developer
10 11 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (7.58%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (6.82%) Cisco Engineer
12 9 (6.82%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 9 (6.82%) Linux Specialist
12 9 (6.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 9 (6.82%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 9 (6.82%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.64%) LDAP
2 16 (12.12%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (12.12%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (6.06%) Kafka
5 7 (5.30%) Middleware
6 4 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.03%) REST
7 3 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.27%) gRPC
7 3 (2.27%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.27%) Node.js
7 3 (2.27%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.27%) React
7 3 (2.27%) Spring
7 3 (2.27%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.27%) Swagger
8 2 (1.52%) LAMP
9 1 (0.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.91%) Management Information System
2 19 (14.39%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (9.09%) Derivative
4 10 (7.58%) Clustering
5 7 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.55%) Replication
7 4 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.03%) Video on Demand
7 4 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.27%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.27%) PKI
8 3 (2.27%) RSA SecurID
8 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.52%) FPGA
9 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 132 (100.00%) Linux
2 48 (36.36%) Windows
3 37 (28.03%) Unix
4 31 (23.48%) CentOS
5 22 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 14 (10.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (9.85%) Debian
8 12 (9.09%) Solaris
9 11 (8.33%) Ubuntu
10 8 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (1.52%) AIX
12 2 (1.52%) CoreOS
12 2 (1.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.03%) ITIL
2 28 (21.21%) DevOps
3 24 (18.18%) Change Management
4 23 (17.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (15.91%) Containerisation
5 21 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.64%) Release Management
6 18 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
7 17 (12.88%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (11.36%) Low Latency
10 14 (10.61%) Agile
11 13 (9.85%) Configuration Management
12 12 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
12 12 (9.09%) SOA
12 12 (9.09%) Systems Analysis
12 12 (9.09%) Unit Testing
13 11 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (55.30%) Python
2 47 (35.61%) Bash
3 21 (15.91%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.85%) C++
4 13 (9.85%) Perl
5 10 (7.58%) Korn
6 8 (6.06%) SQL
7 7 (5.30%) Java
7 7 (5.30%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.03%) PHP
9 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.52%) C
10 2 (1.52%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) C#
11 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.70%) Degree
3 22 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 21 (15.91%) DV Cleared
4 21 (15.91%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (11.36%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.79%) RHCE
6 5 (3.79%) RHCSA
7 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.52%) CCNA
8 2 (1.52%) CCNP
8 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.76%) MCSA
9 1 (0.76%) MCSE
9 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.00%) SLA
2 4 (3.03%) QA
3 2 (1.52%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 40 (30.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (14.39%) Docker
3 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
4 11 (8.33%) vSphere
5 9 (6.82%) NFS
6 5 (3.79%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.52%) KVM
8 2 (1.52%) pfSense
8 2 (1.52%) Postfix
8 2 (1.52%) Samba
8 2 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.76%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (43.18%) Ansible
2 34 (25.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.42%) Terraform
4 14 (10.61%) Puppet
5 6 (4.55%) Grafana
5 6 (4.55%) Nagios
5 6 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.79%) Podman
6 5 (3.79%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.79%) WSUS
7 3 (2.27%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.27%) SCOM
7 3 (2.27%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.52%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.76%) SCCM
9 1 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (65.15%) Red Hat
2 50 (37.88%) VMware
3 18 (13.64%) IBM
4 14 (10.61%) Cisco
5 13 (9.85%) Oracle
6 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 11 (8.33%) ServiceNow
7 10 (7.58%) Commvault
8 8 (6.06%) NetApp
8 8 (6.06%) Pure Storage
8 8 (6.06%) Splunk
9 7 (5.30%) Dell
10 6 (4.55%) HP
11 5 (3.79%) Atlassian
11 5 (3.79%) Symantec
12 3 (2.27%) Google
12 3 (2.27%) McAfee
12 3 (2.27%) SaltStack
13 2 (1.52%) Mirantis
13 2 (1.52%) SolarWinds