Hybrid/Remote Red Hat Job Trends

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 336 448
Rank change year-on-year -43 +112 -55
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 59 97 98
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.59% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 1.23% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 49 65 72
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,950 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +9.80% +6.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £84,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,954 7,880 11,847
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.26% 47.77% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,889 4,131 8,389
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,500 £31,450
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,926 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.59% +9.00% -13.04%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Red Hat job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Red Hat
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Red Hat
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

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

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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 2 (3.39%) ArcGIS
1 2 (3.39%) GeoServer
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) OpenShift
2 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 14 (23.73%) AWS
4 7 (11.86%) Apigee
5 6 (10.17%) Kong
5 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.47%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.39%) GCP
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.69%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.69%) Datadog
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub
8 1 (1.69%) IaaS
8 1 (1.69%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Route 53
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.73%) Firewall
2 6 (10.17%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.08%) WAN
4 2 (3.39%) DNS
4 2 (3.39%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.39%) LAN
4 2 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (3.39%) SAN
5 1 (1.69%) DHCP
5 1 (1.69%) Internet
5 1 (1.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.08%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) GIS
4 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.39%) QGIS
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) GitLab
2 6 (10.17%) Git
3 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.69%) git-flow
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.69%) TestRail
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
4 6 (10.17%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Finance
5 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.39%) Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Automation Engineer
1 11 (18.64%) Linux Engineer
1 11 (18.64%) Network Engineer
1 11 (18.64%) Telecoms Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Consultant
3 7 (11.86%) Administrator
3 7 (11.86%) Automation Specialist
3 7 (11.86%) Network Specialist
3 7 (11.86%) Telecoms Specialist
4 6 (10.17%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Site Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (8.47%) Linux Administrator
5 5 (8.47%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Subject Matter Expert
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) Jinja
1 11 (18.64%) JSON
1 11 (18.64%) YAML
2 6 (10.17%) Loki
2 6 (10.17%) REST
2 6 (10.17%) XML
2 6 (10.17%) YANG
3 2 (3.39%) .NET
3 2 (3.39%) Django
4 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.56%) Data Centre
3 7 (11.86%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.86%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 4 (6.78%) Private Cloud
6 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (5.08%) Hackathon
6 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 42 (71.19%) Linux
2 18 (30.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (18.64%) Ubuntu
4 10 (16.95%) CentOS
5 8 (13.56%) Unix
6 6 (10.17%) Windows
7 5 (8.47%) OpenVMS
8 3 (5.08%) Debian
8 3 (5.08%) Solaris
8 3 (5.08%) SUSE
9 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
10 1 (1.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (35.59%) CI/CD
3 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (25.42%) Containerisation
5 14 (23.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (22.03%) DevOps
7 11 (18.64%) API Management
7 11 (18.64%) Task Automation
8 10 (16.95%) Project Delivery
9 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (13.56%) Computer Science
10 8 (13.56%) Mentoring
10 8 (13.56%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (11.86%) GitOps
11 7 (11.86%) Observability
11 7 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (10.17%) Secrets Management
12 6 (10.17%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Python
2 15 (25.42%) Bash
3 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.39%) Korn
6 1 (1.69%) Groovy
6 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) Degree
4 6 (10.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.78%) VCAP
7 2 (3.39%) RHCE
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.69%) CCDA
8 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.69%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) GDPR
1 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.25%) Docker
3 4 (6.78%) Firmware
3 4 (6.78%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.78%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (3.39%) KVM
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.69%) QEMU
6 1 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.69%) vSphere
6 1 (1.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.34%) Ansible
3 7 (11.86%) Grafana
4 6 (10.17%) Argo
4 6 (10.17%) Kustomize
4 6 (10.17%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.17%) Puppet
4 6 (10.17%) Terraform
5 5 (8.47%) Istio
6 4 (6.78%) Progress Chef
7 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (1.69%) Podman
8 1 (1.69%) SCCM
8 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Cisco
2 14 (23.73%) VMware
3 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
4 8 (13.56%) Dell
5 7 (11.86%) Juniper
6 6 (10.17%) F5
6 6 (10.17%) Palo Alto
7 4 (6.78%) Oracle
8 2 (3.39%) ESRI
8 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.69%) Citrix
9 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.69%) EMC
9 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.69%) Mirantis
9 1 (1.69%) NetApp
9 1 (1.69%) Splunk
9 1 (1.69%) Veeam