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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 406 453
Rank change year-on-year +51 +47 +120
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 58 190 234
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.15% 4.02% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 47 124 151
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,563 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,840 £91,934 £88,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £102,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +12.07%

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 1,839 4,725 6,609
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.29% 13.96% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 3,678 4,843
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

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 2 May 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 6 (10.34%) Tomcat
2 5 (8.62%) NetWeaver
3 2 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) Drupal
4 1 (1.72%) nginx
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (8.62%) IaaS
3 5 (8.62%) PaaS
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) DNS
2 7 (12.07%) DHCP
2 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.62%) Firewall
3 5 (8.62%) VSAN
4 3 (5.17%) SAN
4 3 (5.17%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.72%) HTTP
5 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.72%) Modbus
5 1 (1.72%) SMTP
5 1 (1.72%) SSH
5 1 (1.72%) SSL
5 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (8.62%) MariaDB
2 5 (8.62%) SAP BW
2 5 (8.62%) SAP Data Services
2 5 (8.62%) SAP HANA
3 4 (6.90%) MySQL
3 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 29 (50.00%) Finance
2 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
3 18 (31.03%) Banking
4 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) General Ledger
6 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 15 (25.86%) Administrator
2 15 (25.86%) Linux Administrator
2 15 (25.86%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (20.69%) Security Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Lead
5 7 (12.07%) Linux Support
6 6 (10.34%) Senior
7 5 (8.62%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Unix Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Unix Support
8 4 (6.90%) VMWare Administrator
9 3 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Linux Specialist
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Unix Support
9 3 (5.17%) Service Operations Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Middleware
2 5 (8.62%) GraphQL
2 5 (8.62%) REST
2 5 (8.62%) Web Services
3 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
4 1 (1.72%) Kafka
4 1 (1.72%) Laravel
4 1 (1.72%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.79%) Clustering
2 8 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.79%) Security Posture
3 7 (12.07%) Cloud Native
3 7 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
3 7 (12.07%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.17%) Replication
5 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.72%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) SCADA
6 1 (1.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 58 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (34.48%) Windows Server
3 17 (29.31%) Windows
4 13 (22.41%) Unix
5 6 (10.34%) AIX
6 5 (8.62%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.90%) CentOS
8 2 (3.45%) Debian
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (1.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (31.03%) DevOps
3 16 (27.59%) ITIL
4 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (18.97%) Security Patching
8 10 (17.24%) Change Management
8 10 (17.24%) Patch Management
8 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
8 10 (17.24%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (12.07%) Cloud Security
12 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (10.34%) High Availability
12 6 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (10.34%) Service Management
13 5 (8.62%) Configuration Management
13 5 (8.62%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Python
2 19 (32.76%) PowerShell
3 18 (31.03%) Bash
4 6 (10.34%) Java
5 5 (8.62%) C
5 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.45%) Perl
6 2 (3.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.72%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
2 4 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (6.90%) RHCSA
3 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) CCNA
4 2 (3.45%) CCNP
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) MCP
4 2 (3.45%) MCSA
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.72%) RHCE
5 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) SLA
2 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 18 (31.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (22.41%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (10.34%) vSphere
5 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
5 5 (8.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (6.90%) Firmware
6 4 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (5.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.45%) Docker
8 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Ansible
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) Puppet
4 6 (10.34%) vCenter Server
5 5 (8.62%) Progress Chef
5 5 (8.62%) SCCM
5 5 (8.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (6.90%) SCOM
6 4 (6.90%) WSUS
7 3 (5.17%) Nagios
8 2 (3.45%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (3.45%) vRealize
8 2 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (56.90%) Red Hat
2 24 (41.38%) VMware
3 11 (18.97%) Oracle
4 7 (12.07%) IBM
4 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.07%) ServiceNow
4 7 (12.07%) Symantec
5 5 (8.62%) EMC
5 5 (8.62%) SAP
5 5 (8.62%) SolarWinds
5 5 (8.62%) Veritas
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco
7 3 (5.17%) Dell
7 3 (5.17%) Remedy
7 3 (5.17%) SaltStack
8 2 (3.45%) ArcSight
8 2 (3.45%) Isilon
8 2 (3.45%) McAfee
8 2 (3.45%) Splunk
9 1 (1.72%) HP