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 10 July 2026, 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
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 391 326
Rank change year-on-year -102 -65 +128
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 274 318 838
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 1.07% 1.54% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 181 151 307
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £42,100
25th Percentile £47,750 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,875 £84,375
90th Percentile £98,750 £87,500 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% +5.00%

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 25,568 20,710 34,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.12% 42.32% 34.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15,279 11,354 23,697
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in the UK

Red Hat
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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 -96 257 £65,000 -3.70% 52
UK excluding London -77 172 £65,000 +4.00% 43
London -52 87 £70,000 -3.45% 20
South East -35 80 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Work from Home -30 59 £62,500 -10.71% 21
South West -57 39 £60,500 -1.22% 14
North of England -38 22 £40,000 -38.46% 6
North West +12 21 £40,000 -20.00% 5
East of England -1 15 £75,000 +30.43% 1
Midlands -48 11 £67,500 +35.00% 4
East Midlands -32 8 £67,500 +17.39% 1
Scotland +13 5 £80,000 - 8
West Midlands -22 3 - - 3
North East - 1 - -

Red Hat
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 37 (13.50%) Apache
2 32 (11.68%) Apache Spark
3 25 (9.12%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (4.74%) Confluence
5 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.09%) CMS
6 3 (1.09%) nginx
6 3 (1.09%) WordPress
7 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.73%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (4.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 124 (45.26%) AWS
2 87 (31.75%) Azure
3 81 (29.56%) OpenShift
4 31 (11.31%) Amazon S3
5 24 (8.76%) GCP
5 24 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.76%) SaaS
6 22 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.38%) Nutanix
7 12 (4.38%) Serverless
8 11 (4.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (4.01%) Datadog
8 11 (4.01%) GitHub
8 11 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.65%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.55%) Apigee
10 7 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 52 (18.98%) Firewall
2 37 (13.50%) DNS
3 24 (8.76%) LAN
4 18 (6.57%) SAN
4 18 (6.57%) TCP/IP
5 17 (6.20%) WAN
6 11 (4.01%) Remote Desktop
7 10 (3.65%) iSCSI
8 9 (3.28%) HTTP
8 9 (3.28%) IPv4
9 8 (2.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (2.19%) AMQP
10 6 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.82%) DHCP
11 5 (1.82%) Network Security
11 5 (1.82%) VPN
12 4 (1.46%) NAS
12 4 (1.46%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.46%) VSAN
12 4 (1.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.49%) Tableau
2 25 (9.12%) Apache Hive
2 25 (9.12%) Impala
2 25 (9.12%) Oracle Database
2 25 (9.12%) Parquet
2 25 (9.12%) Spark SQL
3 21 (7.66%) MySQL
4 19 (6.93%) SQL Server
5 18 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.65%) InfluxDB
7 9 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.55%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.19%) Big Data
9 6 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.73%) GIS
11 2 (0.73%) QGIS
12 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.36%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 76 (27.74%) Git
2 52 (18.98%) GitLab
3 25 (9.12%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (8.03%) Jenkins
5 14 (5.11%) JIRA
6 9 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.28%) Robot Framework
6 9 (3.28%) TestRail
7 7 (2.55%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.36%) git-flow
8 1 (0.36%) JUnit
8 1 (0.36%) Maven
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 72 (26.28%) Finance
2 52 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (17.15%) Banking
3 47 (17.15%) Social Skills
4 24 (8.76%) Investment Banking
5 21 (7.66%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.74%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.38%) Legal
7 12 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.46%) Automotive
10 4 (1.46%) Electronics
10 4 (1.46%) Front Office
10 4 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.46%) Retail
11 3 (1.09%) Military
12 2 (0.73%) Advertising
13 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 48 (17.52%) Administrator
1 48 (17.52%) Linux Engineer
2 44 (16.06%) Systems Administrator
3 37 (13.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (12.41%) Linux Administrator
5 33 (12.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 30 (10.95%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 29 (10.58%) Analyst
8 27 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (9.12%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 23 (8.39%) Transformation Analyst
11 22 (8.03%) Architect
11 22 (8.03%) Banking Analyst
12 21 (7.66%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 21 (7.66%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 21 (7.66%) Systems Engineer
13 19 (6.93%) Senior
14 16 (5.84%) Applications Architect
15 13 (4.74%) Business Analyst
15 13 (4.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.12%) PySpark
2 19 (6.93%) Regular Expression
2 19 (6.93%) XMPP
3 18 (6.57%) LDAP
4 14 (5.11%) JSON
4 14 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (4.74%) Pandas
6 12 (4.38%) REST
7 11 (4.01%) Jinja
7 11 (4.01%) YAML
8 10 (3.65%) XML
9 9 (3.28%) OAuth
9 9 (3.28%) WebSockets
10 8 (2.92%) Node.js
10 8 (2.92%) SAML
11 7 (2.55%) pytest
11 7 (2.55%) React
11 7 (2.55%) Spring
11 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.22%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.85%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.55%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (2.55%) PKI
6 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.82%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.46%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 218 (79.56%) Linux
2 117 (42.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 76 (27.74%) Windows
4 55 (20.07%) CentOS
4 55 (20.07%) Windows Server
5 54 (19.71%) Ubuntu
6 20 (7.30%) Unix
7 12 (4.38%) Debian
7 12 (4.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.92%) Rocky
9 7 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.82%) AIX
10 5 (1.82%) OpenVMS
11 4 (1.46%) CoreOS
11 4 (1.46%) Solaris
12 3 (1.09%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (37.96%) CI/CD
2 80 (29.20%) DevOps
2 80 (29.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (24.45%) Agile
4 64 (23.36%) Containerisation
5 61 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (15.33%) Scrum
8 40 (14.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 35 (12.77%) Validation
10 27 (9.85%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (9.85%) SIEM
11 26 (9.49%) AI
12 25 (9.12%) Analytics
12 25 (9.12%) Configuration Management
12 25 (9.12%) Data Governance
12 25 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (9.12%) Data Transformation
12 25 (9.12%) ETL
12 25 (9.12%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 111 (40.51%) Python
2 103 (37.59%) Bash
3 59 (21.53%) PowerShell
4 40 (14.60%) SQL
5 24 (8.76%) Java
6 22 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.19%) Korn
9 3 (1.09%) PHP
10 2 (0.73%) C
11 1 (0.36%) C++
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 89 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.06%) DV Cleared
3 35 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.03%) Degree
5 20 (7.30%) RHCSA
6 18 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (4.74%) RHCE
9 11 (4.01%) CCNA
10 9 (3.28%) AWS Certification
10 9 (3.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (2.92%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.92%) OSCP
11 8 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.46%) VCAP
13 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.09%) CCDA
13 3 (1.09%) CCSP
13 3 (1.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.12%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.84%) GDPR
3 12 (4.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 12 (4.38%) HIPAA
4 11 (4.01%) QA
5 5 (1.82%) NIST
5 5 (1.82%) SLA
6 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (22.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (20.07%) Docker
3 51 (18.61%) Active Directory
4 40 (14.60%) vSphere
5 13 (4.74%) Hyper-V
6 12 (4.38%) VMware NSX
7 11 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 8 (2.92%) Squid
10 4 (1.46%) Firmware
11 3 (1.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.73%) KVM
12 2 (0.73%) Samba
12 2 (0.73%) Xen
13 1 (0.36%) GPFS
13 1 (0.36%) Lustre
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.36%) QEMU
13 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 97 (35.40%) Terraform
2 88 (32.12%) Ansible
3 86 (31.39%) Kubernetes
4 33 (12.04%) Grafana
5 24 (8.76%) Puppet
6 21 (7.66%) Nagios
7 15 (5.47%) Prometheus
7 15 (5.47%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.65%) ZABBIX
9 9 (3.28%) Packer
9 9 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (2.92%) Nessus
11 7 (2.55%) Kibana
11 7 (2.55%) logstash
11 7 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (2.19%) Argo
12 6 (2.19%) Kustomize
12 6 (2.19%) Progress Chef
13 5 (1.82%) Istio
14 4 (1.46%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 93 (33.94%) VMware
2 58 (21.17%) Microsoft
3 41 (14.96%) Oracle
4 30 (10.95%) Splunk
5 24 (8.76%) Cisco
6 19 (6.93%) McAfee
7 18 (6.57%) Dell
8 12 (4.38%) Rapid7
8 12 (4.38%) SolarWinds
9 10 (3.65%) Dynatrace
9 10 (3.65%) Juniper
10 8 (2.92%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.92%) NetApp
11 7 (2.55%) Google
12 6 (2.19%) F5
12 6 (2.19%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.19%) SaltStack
12 6 (2.19%) Veeam
13 5 (1.82%) Citrix
13 5 (1.82%) ServiceNow