Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 29 June 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
29 Jun 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 519 434 258
Rank change year-on-year -85 -176 +46
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 369 172 56
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.69% 2.54% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 251 133 43
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £43,843 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% +4.76%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

All Operating Systems
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,699 6,783 1,800
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.61% 18.43% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,668 5,471 1,548
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux over the 6 months to 29 June 2022.

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 2022, Red Hat Enterprise Linux job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

1 369 (100.00%) Linux
2 241 (65.31%) Red Hat
3 158 (42.82%) Azure
4 147 (39.84%) Windows
5 142 (38.48%) AWS
6 119 (32.25%) Python
7 117 (31.71%) Ansible
8 113 (30.62%) DevOps
9 112 (30.35%) VMware
10 100 (27.10%) Bash
11 99 (26.83%) Terraform
12 95 (25.75%) Kubernetes
13 86 (23.31%) Windows Server
14 83 (22.49%) CI/CD
14 83 (22.49%) Finance
15 77 (20.87%) Docker
16 74 (20.05%) Microsoft
17 70 (18.97%) GCP
18 67 (18.16%) SQL
19 66 (17.89%) CentOS
20 65 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
21 64 (17.34%) Unix
22 62 (16.80%) Java
23 60 (16.26%) Oracle
24 58 (15.72%) Configuration Management
24 58 (15.72%) Social Skills
25 57 (15.45%) Perl
25 57 (15.45%) VMware Infrastructure
25 57 (15.45%) Puppet
26 55 (14.91%) Jenkins

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (10.57%) Apache
2 19 (5.15%) Tomcat
3 11 (2.98%) Confluence
4 10 (2.71%) IIS
5 8 (2.17%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.90%) nginx
7 6 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.63%) MediaWiki
7 6 (1.63%) Moodle
8 4 (1.08%) MS Exchange
8 4 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.81%) Traefik
9 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.54%) CMS
10 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 158 (42.82%) Azure
2 142 (38.48%) AWS
3 70 (18.97%) GCP
4 40 (10.84%) Datadog
5 33 (8.94%) Slack
6 25 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (6.50%) GitHub
8 19 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (4.07%) IaaS
9 15 (4.07%) PaaS
10 14 (3.79%) SaaS
11 13 (3.52%) Azure AKS
11 13 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.98%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.98%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.98%) SonarCloud
14 10 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (13.82%) DNS
2 47 (12.74%) Firewall
3 41 (11.11%) SAN
4 18 (4.88%) DHCP
5 13 (3.52%) VPN
6 10 (2.71%) Internet
6 10 (2.71%) iSCSI
7 9 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (2.44%) IP Telephony
8 8 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (2.17%) NAS
9 7 (1.90%) HTTP
9 7 (1.90%) IPsec
9 7 (1.90%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.63%) Broadband
10 6 (1.63%) Intranet
11 5 (1.36%) SSL
11 5 (1.36%) VoIP
12 4 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.38%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (7.86%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.69%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.15%) DB2
5 17 (4.61%) Oracle Database
6 14 (3.79%) MySQL
7 13 (3.52%) BusinessObjects
7 13 (3.52%) UniData
8 12 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.63%) Big Data
10 6 (1.63%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.63%) Oracle Database 12c
11 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database 10g
11 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database 11g
11 5 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (14.91%) Jenkins
2 34 (9.21%) Gradle
2 34 (9.21%) Maven
3 31 (8.40%) Git (software)
4 16 (4.34%) GitLab
5 15 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (3.52%) JIRA
7 9 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.17%) IBM UrbanCode
9 6 (1.63%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (1.63%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.54%) GoCD
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.54%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.54%) Subversion
11 1 (0.27%) Postman
11 1 (0.27%) Selenium
11 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 83 (22.49%) Finance
2 58 (15.72%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.13%) Retail
5 27 (7.32%) Banking
6 24 (6.50%) Telecoms
7 22 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.07%) Police
9 10 (2.71%) Advertising
10 9 (2.44%) Law
11 8 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.36%) Marketing
14 3 (0.81%) Back Office
15 2 (0.54%) Electronics
15 2 (0.54%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (20.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (10.57%) Administrator
3 33 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (8.67%) Analyst
5 30 (8.13%) Linux Support
6 29 (7.86%) Senior DevOps
6 29 (7.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 29 (7.86%) Systems Administrator
7 28 (7.59%) Linux Engineer
8 27 (7.32%) Linux Administrator
9 26 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.23%) AWS DevOps
10 23 (6.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 22 (5.96%) Applications Support
11 22 (5.96%) Applications Support Analyst
11 22 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.96%) Software Engineer
11 22 (5.96%) Support Analyst
12 21 (5.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 19 (5.15%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.78%) Spring Boot
2 24 (6.50%) Spring
3 15 (4.07%) LAMP
4 13 (3.52%) JMS
5 9 (2.44%) Kafka
5 9 (2.44%) LEMP Stack
6 8 (2.17%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.17%) Velocity
7 7 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.90%) Middleware
8 6 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.08%) JDBC
9 4 (1.08%) Node.js
9 4 (1.08%) ODBC
10 2 (0.54%) Java RMI
10 2 (0.54%) LAPP Stack
10 2 (0.54%) REST
10 2 (0.54%) Sensu
11 1 (0.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.47%) Data Centre
2 39 (10.57%) Linux Command Line
3 33 (8.94%) BYOD
4 31 (8.40%) Cloud Native
5 29 (7.86%) Public Cloud
6 24 (6.50%) Clustering
7 22 (5.96%) Management Information System
8 19 (5.15%) HACMP
9 15 (4.07%) Cyber Defence
9 15 (4.07%) Cyberattack
9 15 (4.07%) Cybercrime
10 14 (3.79%) Client/Server
10 14 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.90%) Video on Demand
13 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.08%) Replication
15 3 (0.81%) PKI
15 3 (0.81%) SWIFT
16 2 (0.54%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 369 (100.00%) Linux
2 147 (39.84%) Windows
3 86 (23.31%) Windows Server
4 66 (17.89%) CentOS
5 64 (17.34%) Unix
6 44 (11.92%) Ubuntu
7 36 (9.76%) AIX
8 26 (7.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 20 (5.42%) Solaris
9 20 (5.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (4.07%) Debian
11 12 (3.25%) SUSE
12 9 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (1.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.54%) openSUSE
16 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.54%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (30.62%) DevOps
2 83 (22.49%) CI/CD
3 65 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (15.72%) Configuration Management
5 47 (12.74%) ITIL
6 44 (11.92%) Agile
6 44 (11.92%) Test Automation
7 41 (11.11%) Change Management
7 41 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 41 (11.11%) SDLC
8 38 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (10.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 33 (8.94%) Blue-Green Deployment
11 33 (8.94%) Data Privacy
12 32 (8.67%) Coaching
13 28 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (7.59%) Migration
14 25 (6.78%) Load Balancing
14 25 (6.78%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (32.25%) Python
2 100 (27.10%) Bash
3 67 (18.16%) SQL
4 62 (16.80%) Java
5 57 (15.45%) Perl
6 47 (12.74%) Shell Script
7 40 (10.84%) PowerShell
8 34 (9.21%) Groovy
9 17 (4.61%) Korn
10 12 (3.25%) C++
11 10 (2.71%) PHP
12 9 (2.44%) AWK
12 9 (2.44%) JavaScript
12 9 (2.44%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.17%) C
13 8 (2.17%) Go
14 3 (0.81%) Bourne shell
15 2 (0.54%) Ruby
15 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.27%) Lua
Qualifications
1 32 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.69%) Degree
4 13 (3.52%) CCNA
4 13 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (3.25%) RHCE
6 8 (2.17%) CCNP
7 5 (1.36%) LPIC
8 4 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.81%) MCSE
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) CCSP
10 2 (0.54%) CEH
10 2 (0.54%) CISSP
10 2 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.54%) SSCP
11 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) MySQL Certification
11 1 (0.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.21%) QA
2 11 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.17%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.63%) GDPR
4 6 (1.63%) ISO 9001
4 6 (1.63%) SLA
5 4 (1.08%) NCSC
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 77 (20.87%) Docker
2 57 (15.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (14.63%) Active Directory
4 26 (7.05%) vSphere
5 18 (4.88%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 14 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.71%) NFS
8 9 (2.44%) XenApp
8 9 (2.44%) XenDesktop
9 8 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (1.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 6 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (1.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (1.08%) iptables
12 4 (1.08%) KVM
13 3 (0.81%) Firmware
13 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
13 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.54%) Postfix
14 2 (0.54%) Samba
Systems Management
1 117 (31.71%) Ansible
2 99 (26.83%) Terraform
3 95 (25.75%) Kubernetes
4 57 (15.45%) Puppet
5 36 (9.76%) Tivoli
6 31 (8.40%) Prometheus
7 25 (6.78%) Red Hat Satellite
8 22 (5.96%) Packer
9 18 (4.88%) IBM BigFix
9 18 (4.88%) Netcool
9 18 (4.88%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 18 (4.88%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 18 (4.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 18 (4.88%) yum
10 15 (4.07%) Opscode Chef
10 15 (4.07%) Podman
11 10 (2.71%) Grafana
11 10 (2.71%) Oracle ZFS
12 9 (2.44%) Nagios
12 9 (2.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 241 (65.31%) Red Hat
2 112 (30.35%) VMware
3 74 (20.05%) Microsoft
4 60 (16.26%) Oracle
5 49 (13.28%) Cisco
6 35 (9.49%) IBM
7 31 (8.40%) Veritas
8 25 (6.78%) Citrix
9 22 (5.96%) EMC
10 20 (5.42%) Atlassian
10 20 (5.42%) Rackspace
11 18 (4.88%) Juniper
12 15 (4.07%) F5
12 15 (4.07%) Splunk
13 13 (3.52%) ServiceNow
14 11 (2.98%) Avaya
14 11 (2.98%) Brocade
14 11 (2.98%) Dynatrace
14 11 (2.98%) SaltStack
15 9 (2.44%) CheckPoint