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 23 October 2024, 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
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 325 464
Rank change year-on-year -47 +139 -20
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 502 577 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.97% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 2.05% 2.32% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 204 255 589
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £38,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £113,125 £92,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% +4.76% -

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 24,446 24,905 55,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 41.89% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 12,032 17,966 30,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £56,392 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -0.19% +2.73%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,975 £91,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Top 14 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 23 October 2024. 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 -27 488 £70,000 +12.00% 170
UK excluding London -68 315 £55,500 +0.91% 120
London +19 179 £85,000 +3.03% 59
Work from Home +9 119 £64,750 +7.92% 274
South East +4 92 £60,000 +14.29% 43
South West -26 86 £52,500 +2.44% 30
North of England -41 66 £52,500 -4.55% 31
North West -13 59 £52,500 +6.60% 30
East of England -28 32 £60,000 +8.11% 8
Midlands -28 30 £47,500 -19.49% 6
East Midlands -22 25 £40,000 -32.20% 3
Scotland -33 9 £48,500 -3.00% 3
Yorkshire +9 7 £75,000 +36.36% 1
West Midlands -36 5 £60,000 -12.73% 3

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 26 (5.18%) Apache
2 23 (4.58%) OpenStack
3 22 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (2.79%) CloudStack
5 11 (2.19%) nginx
6 8 (1.59%) JBoss
7 7 (1.39%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.39%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.20%) Confluence
9 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.80%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.40%) WinCC
12 1 (0.20%) Camunda
12 1 (0.20%) IIS
12 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.20%) InDesign
2 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 223 (44.42%) AWS
2 145 (28.88%) Azure
3 119 (23.71%) IBM Cloud
4 67 (13.35%) Amazon EKS
5 63 (12.55%) Amazon S3
5 63 (12.55%) OpenShift
6 61 (12.15%) Amazon ECR
6 61 (12.15%) OCI
6 61 (12.15%) Route 53
7 32 (6.37%) GCP
8 26 (5.18%) SaaS
9 23 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (3.39%) Serverless
12 13 (2.59%) GitHub
13 12 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.19%) Azure API Management
14 11 (2.19%) Azure Functions
14 11 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 72 (14.34%) Firewall
2 62 (12.35%) DNS
3 45 (8.96%) DHCP
4 38 (7.57%) TCP/IP
5 21 (4.18%) SAN
6 20 (3.98%) WAN
7 19 (3.78%) LAN
8 15 (2.99%) Remote Desktop
9 12 (2.39%) Internet
10 11 (2.19%) SSL
10 11 (2.19%) Wireless
11 10 (1.99%) VPN
12 9 (1.79%) HTTP
12 9 (1.79%) SNMP
13 8 (1.59%) Broadband
13 8 (1.59%) FIX Connectivity
13 8 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (1.59%) iSCSI
14 6 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.75%) Amazon RDS
2 55 (10.96%) SQL Server
3 52 (10.36%) MongoDB
4 51 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (8.37%) NoSQL
6 40 (7.97%) DB2
7 17 (3.39%) Oracle Database
7 17 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.39%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.39%) MySQL
9 5 (1.00%) Big Data
9 5 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.40%) Airbyte
12 2 (0.40%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (9.36%) Jenkins
2 32 (6.37%) GitLab
3 26 (5.18%) Git
4 13 (2.59%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.99%) JIRA
6 10 (1.99%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.79%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.80%) JUnit
10 3 (0.60%) JMeter
11 2 (0.40%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.40%) Mockito
11 2 (0.40%) Postman
11 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.40%) Selenium
11 2 (0.40%) Subversion
11 2 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 126 (25.10%) Public Sector
2 108 (21.51%) Finance
3 85 (16.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (16.73%) Social Skills
5 50 (9.96%) Banking
6 26 (5.18%) Aerospace
7 15 (2.99%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.99%) Automotive
9 10 (1.99%) Retail
10 9 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.59%) Spanish Language
12 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Dutch Language
14 4 (0.80%) Law
15 3 (0.60%) Military
16 2 (0.40%) Advertising
16 2 (0.40%) German Language
Job Titles
1 116 (23.11%) Senior
2 104 (20.72%) Linux Engineer
3 102 (20.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 84 (16.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (10.76%) Senior DevOps
5 54 (10.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 50 (9.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 38 (7.57%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (6.77%) Administrator
9 28 (5.58%) IT Engineer
10 26 (5.18%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 25 (4.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
12 24 (4.78%) Unix Engineer
13 22 (4.38%) Lead
13 22 (4.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 22 (4.38%) Unix Linux Engineer
14 21 (4.18%) Linux Administrator
14 21 (4.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (3.98%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.94%) React
2 64 (12.75%) CSS
2 64 (12.75%) HTML
3 45 (8.96%) REST
4 43 (8.57%) .NET
5 42 (8.37%) AngularJS
6 39 (7.77%) Web Services
7 36 (7.17%) ASP.NET
7 36 (7.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 36 (7.17%) Backbone.js
7 36 (7.17%) Ember.js
7 36 (7.17%) jQuery
7 36 (7.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 36 (7.17%) Vue
8 19 (3.78%) Middleware
8 19 (3.78%) Node.js
9 14 (2.79%) Spring
10 11 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (1.99%) Kafka
12 9 (1.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 135 (26.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 119 (23.71%) Blockchain
3 84 (16.73%) e-Learning
4 45 (8.96%) Data Centre
5 38 (7.57%) Management Information System
6 36 (7.17%) Algorithms
6 36 (7.17%) Data Structures
7 25 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (3.59%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.79%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.79%) FPGA
10 9 (1.79%) IoT
11 8 (1.59%) Eurex
12 6 (1.20%) Industry 4.0
12 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.00%) Clustering
13 5 (1.00%) Derivative
13 5 (1.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 349 (69.52%) Linux
2 160 (31.87%) Windows
3 157 (31.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 89 (17.73%) CentOS
5 79 (15.74%) Ubuntu
6 68 (13.55%) Unix
7 62 (12.35%) Windows Server
8 47 (9.36%) Solaris
9 38 (7.57%) Android
10 36 (7.17%) Apple iOS
11 30 (5.98%) Windows Server 2016
11 30 (5.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (4.58%) Debian
13 20 (3.98%) SUSE
14 19 (3.78%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (1.99%) Rocky
16 9 (1.79%) AIX
17 7 (1.39%) Windows 10
18 4 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
18 4 (0.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (35.46%) Agile
2 177 (35.26%) DevOps
3 136 (27.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 127 (25.30%) Mentoring
5 114 (22.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 108 (21.51%) Containerisation
7 95 (18.92%) Coaching
8 81 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (14.94%) Observability
10 70 (13.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (13.75%) Test Automation
12 62 (12.35%) OO
13 61 (12.15%) Collaborative Working
13 61 (12.15%) Secrets Management
14 58 (11.55%) CI/CD
15 44 (8.76%) User Experience
16 43 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (8.37%) High Availability
18 41 (8.17%) Infrastructure as Code
19 39 (7.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 125 (24.90%) Python
2 88 (17.53%) SQL
3 84 (16.73%) JavaScript
4 80 (15.94%) PowerShell
5 77 (15.34%) Java
6 70 (13.94%) Bash
7 62 (12.35%) C#
8 39 (7.77%) Perl
9 29 (5.78%) TypeScript
10 21 (4.18%) Ruby
11 15 (2.99%) Shell Script
12 14 (2.79%) Korn
13 4 (0.80%) C++
14 3 (0.60%) C
14 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.60%) PHP
15 2 (0.40%) Go
15 2 (0.40%) R
15 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 74 (14.74%) DV Cleared
3 70 (13.94%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.58%) Degree
5 21 (4.18%) RHCE
6 17 (3.39%) RHCSA
7 14 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.19%) RHCA
9 9 (1.79%) CCIE
9 9 (1.79%) CCIE Data Center
9 9 (1.79%) VCDX
10 8 (1.59%) LPIC
11 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.00%) CCNA
14 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.80%) MCSA
15 3 (0.60%) Dell Certification
15 3 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.78%) SLA
2 14 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.39%) QA
4 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 119 (23.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (12.75%) Docker
3 61 (12.15%) Active Directory
4 40 (7.97%) vSphere
5 21 (4.18%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (3.78%) Hyper-V
7 18 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (3.39%) XenDesktop
9 14 (2.79%) pfSense
10 12 (2.39%) XenApp
11 6 (1.20%) KVM
11 6 (1.20%) NFS
12 5 (1.00%) Samba
13 4 (0.80%) Firmware
13 4 (0.80%) LXC
13 4 (0.80%) Squid
13 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.80%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 183 (36.45%) Kubernetes
2 161 (32.07%) Ansible
3 143 (28.49%) Terraform
4 83 (16.53%) Prometheus
5 64 (12.75%) Puppet
6 30 (5.98%) Red Hat Satellite
7 18 (3.59%) Nagios
7 18 (3.59%) Progress Chef
8 17 (3.39%) Grafana
9 12 (2.39%) vCenter Server
9 12 (2.39%) WSUS
10 9 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.39%) Packer
11 7 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.20%) ZABBIX
13 5 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (1.00%) Nessus
14 4 (0.80%) Opsview
14 4 (0.80%) Salt
Vendors
1 150 (29.88%) VMware
2 132 (26.29%) IBM
3 98 (19.52%) Microsoft
4 76 (15.14%) Oracle
5 61 (12.15%) Dynatrace
6 53 (10.56%) Cisco
7 27 (5.38%) HP
8 23 (4.58%) Dell
9 22 (4.38%) Citrix
10 17 (3.39%) Splunk
11 15 (2.99%) F5
11 15 (2.99%) Google
12 13 (2.59%) Atlassian
13 12 (2.39%) TOWER Software
14 10 (1.99%) NetApp
14 10 (1.99%) SaltStack
15 8 (1.59%) Bloomberg
15 8 (1.59%) CQG
15 8 (1.59%) Reuters
15 8 (1.59%) Trayport