Rocky Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Rocky skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 750 655 868
Rank change year-on-year -95 +213 -28
Permanent jobs citing Rocky 11 29 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.059% 0.016%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.18% 0.42% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 28 14
10th Percentile £49,000 £27,500 £48,300
25th Percentile £58,125 £34,000 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £80,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,750 £90,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year +50.00% -24.88% +25.29%

All Operating Systems
UK

Rocky 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 6,168 6,921 13,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.25% 14.06% 13.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,639 4,610 10,277
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -7.61% -12.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Rocky job vacancy trend in the UK

Rocky
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rocky.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rocky

Rocky
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rocky over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rocky within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 -76 10 £62,500 +56.25% 6
UK excluding London -82 6 £60,000 +50.00% 4
London -19 5 £71,250 +35.71% 3
South East - 2 £61,250 - 1
East of England - 2 - - 2
Scotland +10 1 £37,500 -
South West -62 1 - - 1

Rocky
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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) VLAN
3 2 (18.18%) HTTP
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) Multicast
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.09%) NX-OS
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) NetApp Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Storage and Backup Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) Redfish
1 2 (18.18%) WebSockets
2 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (45.45%) CentOS
3 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (27.27%) Ubuntu
5 2 (18.18%) Debian
6 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
5 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Bash
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Xen
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Nagios
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) FlexNet
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Proxmox
3 2 (18.18%) Rancher
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (18.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 4 (36.36%) NetApp
3 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
3 4 (36.36%) Veeam
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco