Red Hat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 314 386
Rank change year-on-year -96 +72 +84
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 296 893 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.91% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 2.45% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 160 304 419
10th Percentile £38,625 £41,325 £41,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,750 £78,107
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +15.00%

All Vendors
UK

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -118 276 £65,000 +8.33% 198
UK excluding London -95 183 £57,500 +9.52% 155
London +29 100 £72,500 -14.71% 56
Work from Home +87 78 £65,000 +8.33% 146
South East -17 71 £67,500 +35.00% 33
North of England -39 47 £62,205 +24.41% 36
North West -78 33 £55,000 -21.43% 23
Midlands +2 27 £31,250 -37.50% 42
East Midlands -17 16 - - 21
Yorkshire +58 13 £70,000 +48.94% 11
South West -14 13 £69,000 +31.43% 26
East of England +42 12 £57,500 -4.17% 9
West Midlands +59 11 £31,250 -47.92% 21
Scotland +119 8 £43,750 -9.79% 7
Northern Ireland +36 5 £55,000 - 4
North East +51 1 £55,000 +10.00% 2

Red Hat
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 22 (7.43%) nginx
2 17 (5.74%) Apache
3 15 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (4.39%) Tomcat
5 12 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (3.38%) Apache Spark
7 8 (2.70%) Camunda
8 7 (2.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (2.03%) Confluence
9 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.35%) IIS
11 3 (1.01%) WinCC
12 1 (0.34%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.34%) Drupal
12 1 (0.34%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (4.05%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 11 (3.72%) Fidessa
3 7 (2.36%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (2.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.34%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.34%) AWS
2 60 (20.27%) Azure
3 48 (16.22%) IBM Cloud
4 29 (9.80%) OpenShift
5 19 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.74%) OCI
6 17 (5.74%) PaaS
7 15 (5.07%) GitHub
8 14 (4.73%) SaaS
9 11 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.38%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (2.70%) GCP
12 7 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.36%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.47%) DNS
2 29 (9.80%) TCP/IP
3 24 (8.11%) Firewall
4 20 (6.76%) DHCP
5 12 (4.05%) Ethernet
6 11 (3.72%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (3.72%) FIX Connectivity
6 11 (3.72%) MPLS
6 11 (3.72%) SSL
7 9 (3.04%) SAN
8 7 (2.36%) NAS
8 7 (2.36%) Wireshark
9 5 (1.69%) HTTP
9 5 (1.69%) LAN
9 5 (1.69%) VPN
10 4 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.35%) Multicast
10 4 (1.35%) Telnet
10 4 (1.35%) VLAN
11 3 (1.01%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.05%) MySQL
4 12 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.38%) Hadoop
6 9 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.04%) Apache Hudi
6 9 (3.04%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.04%) Delta Lake
6 9 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.36%) Oracle ODI
9 5 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.01%) Airbyte
10 3 (1.01%) Metadata
10 3 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 50 (16.89%) Git
2 23 (7.77%) Maven
3 22 (7.43%) Jenkins
4 19 (6.42%) Bitbucket
5 15 (5.07%) GitLab
6 10 (3.38%) JUnit
6 10 (3.38%) Robot Framework
7 9 (3.04%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.70%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.70%) Mockito
8 8 (2.70%) Postman
8 8 (2.70%) Selenium
8 8 (2.70%) TestNG
9 6 (2.03%) JDeveloper
9 6 (2.03%) JIRA
9 6 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.69%) Subversion
11 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.34%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 74 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 62 (20.95%) Finance
2 62 (20.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 31 (10.47%) Banking
5 29 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.41%) Law
7 11 (3.72%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.38%) Spanish Language
9 8 (2.70%) Dutch Language
10 5 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.69%) Police
10 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.35%) Back Office
11 4 (1.35%) Military
12 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.68%) German Language
14 1 (0.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (14.19%) Senior
2 27 (9.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (8.78%) Administrator
4 24 (8.11%) Java Engineer
5 23 (7.77%) Analyst
5 23 (7.77%) Systems Administrator
6 21 (7.09%) Linux Administrator
6 21 (7.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 18 (6.08%) Architect
8 16 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (5.07%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.73%) Senior Java Engineer
10 14 (4.73%) Support Analyst
11 13 (4.39%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (4.39%) Linux Support
12 12 (4.05%) Developer
12 12 (4.05%) Lead
12 12 (4.05%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.09%) React
2 20 (6.76%) Kafka
3 16 (5.41%) Swagger
4 15 (5.07%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (4.73%) Middleware
6 13 (4.39%) REST
7 12 (4.05%) Node.js
8 11 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (3.38%) Django
10 9 (3.04%) PyArrow
10 9 (3.04%) PySpark
10 9 (3.04%) RESTful
10 9 (3.04%) Spring
10 9 (3.04%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.70%) Gherkin
11 8 (2.70%) JAX-RS
11 8 (2.70%) KeystoneJS
11 8 (2.70%) Mustache
11 8 (2.70%) OpenAPI
11 8 (2.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 79 (26.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 53 (17.91%) e-Learning
3 48 (16.22%) Blockchain
4 21 (7.09%) Data Centre
5 20 (6.76%) Clustering
6 17 (5.74%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.72%) Eurex
8 10 (3.38%) Life Science
9 9 (3.04%) Equities
9 9 (3.04%) Fixed Income
9 9 (3.04%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.36%) Derivative
11 6 (2.03%) Replication
12 5 (1.69%) Bitcoin
12 5 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.35%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.35%) SCADA
14 3 (1.01%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 179 (60.47%) Linux
2 103 (34.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 49 (16.55%) Windows
4 44 (14.86%) Unix
5 38 (12.84%) CentOS
6 29 (9.80%) Rocky
7 27 (9.12%) Ubuntu
8 22 (7.43%) Windows Server
9 19 (6.42%) Solaris
10 9 (3.04%) Debian
11 8 (2.70%) zOS
12 6 (2.03%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (1.69%) AIX
13 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (1.01%) SUSE
15 3 (1.01%) VMS
15 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.34%) Android
16 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.12%) DevOps
2 77 (26.01%) Artificial Intelligence
3 68 (22.97%) Mentoring
4 60 (20.27%) Agile
5 57 (19.26%) CI/CD
6 53 (17.91%) Coaching
7 50 (16.89%) Customer Service
8 45 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (13.51%) Configuration Management
10 36 (12.16%) ITIL
11 35 (11.82%) SDLC
12 33 (11.15%) Containerisation
13 32 (10.81%) Software Engineering
14 27 (9.12%) OO
15 26 (8.78%) Test Automation
16 23 (7.77%) Dependency Injection
16 23 (7.77%) Disaster Recovery
17 22 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 21 (7.09%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 82 (27.70%) Python
2 63 (21.28%) SQL
3 50 (16.89%) Bash
4 44 (14.86%) Java
5 38 (12.84%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.12%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.09%) Perl
8 19 (6.42%) C++
9 8 (2.70%) Lua
10 6 (2.03%) C#
10 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.35%) C
11 4 (1.35%) PHP
12 3 (1.01%) R
12 3 (1.01%) Ruby
12 3 (1.01%) SystemVerilog
12 3 (1.01%) Tcl
12 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.01%) VB
13 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 75 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.47%) Degree
3 28 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (6.08%) CCNA
7 15 (5.07%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (4.05%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.72%) CCNP
9 11 (3.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (3.38%) MCSA
10 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.70%) A+ Certification
11 8 (2.70%) RHCE
12 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.36%) MCSE
13 6 (2.03%) RHCSA
14 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
15 4 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 9 (3.04%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.04%) GDPR
3 8 (2.70%) QA
4 7 (2.36%) SLA
5 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.01%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (19.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (12.50%) Docker
3 15 (5.07%) Hyper-V
4 13 (4.39%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.04%) HDFS
5 9 (3.04%) vSphere
6 8 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.69%) Postfix
8 5 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.01%) Dovecot
9 3 (1.01%) KVM
9 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.68%) Firmware
10 2 (0.68%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (22.97%) Ansible
2 54 (18.24%) Kubernetes
3 48 (16.22%) Terraform
4 18 (6.08%) Grafana
5 15 (5.07%) Nagios
5 15 (5.07%) Puppet
6 8 (2.70%) Kustomize
6 8 (2.70%) Packer
6 8 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.69%) SCCM
7 5 (1.69%) WSUS
8 4 (1.35%) SCOM
8 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.01%) Functional Safety
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.01%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (27.36%) IBM
2 74 (25.00%) Oracle
3 69 (23.31%) VMware
4 49 (16.55%) Microsoft
5 44 (14.86%) Cisco
6 13 (4.39%) SolarWinds
7 12 (4.05%) Atlassian
7 12 (4.05%) Juniper
7 12 (4.05%) PeopleSoft
8 11 (3.72%) Bloomberg
8 11 (3.72%) CQG
8 11 (3.72%) ION Trading
8 11 (3.72%) Reuters
8 11 (3.72%) SevOne
8 11 (3.72%) Trayport
9 10 (3.38%) Patsystems
9 10 (3.38%) Splunk
10 8 (2.70%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.70%) Veritas
11 7 (2.36%) Citrix