Red Hat Enterprise Linux Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 389 432
Rank change year-on-year -27 +43 +110
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 59 187 184
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.57% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.28% 4.23% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 47 117 127
10th Percentile £49,250 - £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £40,000 £53,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.36% +12.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £102,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.37% +9.21%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,587 4,417 5,371
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.30% 13.40% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,275 3,302 4,108
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,375 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.61% -12.38% -

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Drupal
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) nginx
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) AWS
2 15 (25.42%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.39%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 1 (1.69%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) DHCP
1 10 (16.95%) DNS
2 8 (13.56%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.47%) Firewall
4 1 (1.69%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.69%) Modbus
4 1 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.69%) SAN
4 1 (1.69%) SSH
4 1 (1.69%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) MariaDB
1 4 (6.78%) MySQL
1 4 (6.78%) RDBMS
1 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.69%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) GitLab
General
1 23 (38.98%) Finance
2 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (23.73%) Banking
4 11 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Administrator
1 14 (23.73%) Linux Administrator
2 13 (22.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 13 (22.03%) Systems Administrator
3 10 (16.95%) Security Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Senior
5 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Linux Support
7 6 (10.17%) Lead
8 5 (8.47%) Consultant
9 4 (6.78%) Linux Consultant
9 4 (6.78%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Linux Consultant
9 4 (6.78%) Unix Support
9 4 (6.78%) VMWare Administrator
10 3 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Middleware
2 3 (5.08%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.08%) REST
3 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.39%) LAMP
4 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.69%) JSON
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) Laravel
4 1 (1.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (16.95%) Management Information System
3 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
4 8 (13.56%) Security Posture
5 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
5 7 (11.86%) Public Cloud
6 6 (10.17%) Clustering
6 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.69%) Replication
8 1 (1.69%) SCADA
8 1 (1.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 59 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (25.42%) CentOS
2 15 (25.42%) Windows
2 15 (25.42%) Windows Server
3 9 (15.25%) Unix
4 8 (13.56%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (10.17%) Ubuntu
6 4 (6.78%) HPUX
6 4 (6.78%) Solaris
7 2 (3.39%) Debian
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.69%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) DevOps
2 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.95%) Containerisation
4 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
5 8 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (13.56%) ITIL
6 7 (11.86%) Cloud Security
6 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (11.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 6 (10.17%) Change Management
7 6 (10.17%) Patch Management
7 6 (10.17%) Performance Monitoring
7 6 (10.17%) Security Patching
8 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
8 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (8.47%) Migration
8 5 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (8.47%) Server Building
8 5 (8.47%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) Bash
3 14 (23.73%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.47%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.69%) COBOL
6 1 (1.69%) Java
6 1 (1.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) AWS Certification
2 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
3 6 (10.17%) RHCSA
4 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.78%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.39%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
1 5 (8.47%) SLA
2 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (13.56%) Hyper-V
2 8 (13.56%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (11.86%) Active Directory
3 7 (11.86%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (8.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (6.78%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (6.78%) vSphere
6 2 (3.39%) Firmware
7 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (44.07%) Ansible
2 10 (16.95%) Terraform
3 9 (15.25%) SCOM
4 8 (13.56%) WSUS
5 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 7 (11.86%) SCCM
6 6 (10.17%) Puppet
7 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
7 5 (8.47%) Nagios
8 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.69%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 36 (61.02%) Red Hat
2 23 (38.98%) VMware
3 16 (27.12%) Oracle
4 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.47%) Symantec
5 5 (8.47%) Veritas
6 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.78%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.39%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.39%) Cisco
7 2 (3.39%) IBM
7 2 (3.39%) Splunk
8 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.69%) Dell
8 1 (1.69%) EMC
8 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.69%) HP
8 1 (1.69%) Perforce
8 1 (1.69%) Remedy
8 1 (1.69%) Veeam