Hybrid/Remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 353 425
Rank change year-on-year -13 +72 -31
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 24 57 129
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.70% 2.87% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 44 110
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +14.29% -10.60%
75th Percentile £88,750 £76,840 £91,934
90th Percentile - £83,875 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -14.25%

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 1,408 1,989 4,303
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.35% 14.57% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 972 1,457 3,685
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,469 £36,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,622 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,712
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.04% -11.02%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 8 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 8 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 8 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
3 2 (8.33%) nginx
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.33%) Route 53
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) SSL
2 3 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (8.33%) DHCP
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) LAN
3 2 (8.33%) NAS
3 2 (8.33%) SNMP
3 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (4.17%) AMQP
4 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) VLAN
4 1 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (33.33%) DB2
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (33.33%) Banking
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Linux Support
2 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 10 (41.67%) Unix Support
3 8 (33.33%) Applications Support
4 6 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 4 (16.67%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (16.67%) Support Specialist
6 4 (16.67%) Unix Specialist
6 4 (16.67%) Unix Support Specialist
7 3 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) Senior
7 3 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
8 2 (8.33%) Lead
8 2 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) LDAP
2 8 (33.33%) LAPP Stack
2 8 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (8.33%) LAMP
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) gRPC
4 1 (4.17%) Material-UI
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 8 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (16.67%) Clustering
3 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (8.33%) FPGA
5 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (58.33%) Unix
3 9 (37.50%) CentOS
3 9 (37.50%) Windows
4 7 (29.17%) Ubuntu
5 3 (12.50%) Debian
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) ITIL
2 12 (50.00%) Change Management
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Release Management
3 8 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (25.00%) Service Management
6 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.67%) Agile
7 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Digital Innovation
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Migration
8 3 (12.50%) SDLC
9 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Perl
3 3 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 11 (45.83%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Docker
3 4 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Ansible
2 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (29.17%) Terraform
4 3 (12.50%) Grafana
4 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (4.17%) Puppet
6 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (33.33%) IBM
3 7 (29.17%) VMware
4 6 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (16.67%) Symantec
6 3 (12.50%) Dell
6 3 (12.50%) Splunk
7 2 (8.33%) HP
7 2 (8.33%) Oracle
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco
8 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
8 1 (4.17%) Google
8 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.17%) SaltStack