Red Hat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Red Hat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Red Hat over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 368 499
Rank change year-on-year +46 +131 -152
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 915 894 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.90% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 2.50% 2.14% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 303 367 646
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,043 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% +3.23%
75th Percentile £79,375 £78,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Vendors
UK

Red Hat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Red Hat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Red Hat.

Salary trend for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Red Hat over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Red Hat in the UK

Red Hat
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +110 872 £60,000 -4.00% 235
UK excluding London +59 721 £52,500 -4.55% 199
South East +105 221 £50,000 +1.01% 34
London +18 181 £82,500 +17.86% 94
Work from Home -54 179 £60,000 -1.64% 118
North of England +108 177 £50,000 - 39
South West +28 166 £52,500 -11.80% 24
North West +74 150 £70,000 +47.37% 19
Midlands +10 95 £50,000 -16.67% 40
East Midlands +26 91 £24,750 -58.75% 5
East of England -20 29 £60,000 +10.09% 11
Yorkshire +70 25 £47,000 -21.04% 1
Scotland -98 16 £48,500 -18.52% 26
Wales -23 13 - -
Northern Ireland +8 5 - - 28
West Midlands -7 4 £60,000 +14.29% 35
North East - 2 £50,000 - 19

Red Hat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 103 (11.26%) Apache
2 50 (5.46%) nginx
3 36 (3.93%) Camunda
4 32 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (2.95%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.98%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.77%) JBoss
9 6 (0.66%) IIS
10 3 (0.33%) Confluence
10 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.22%) Moodle
11 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.22%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.22%) CATIA
2 2 (0.22%) NASTRAN
3 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (1.75%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.22%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 430 (46.99%) Azure
2 394 (43.06%) IBM Cloud
3 252 (27.54%) AWS
4 168 (18.36%) Azure DevOps
5 161 (17.60%) OpenShift
6 154 (16.83%) Serverless
7 125 (13.66%) Azure API Management
7 125 (13.66%) Azure Functions
7 125 (13.66%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (13.66%) Azure Service Bus
8 115 (12.57%) Amazon S3
9 87 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
10 60 (6.56%) OCI
11 58 (6.34%) Amazon ECR
11 58 (6.34%) Route 53
12 56 (6.12%) GCP
13 45 (4.92%) SaaS
14 41 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
15 29 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 115 (12.57%) Firewall
2 91 (9.95%) DNS
3 81 (8.85%) TCP/IP
4 77 (8.42%) VPN
5 73 (7.98%) DHCP
6 69 (7.54%) Internet
7 57 (6.23%) SNMP
8 54 (5.90%) IPsec
9 41 (4.48%) HTTP
10 27 (2.95%) AMQP
11 25 (2.73%) LAN
11 25 (2.73%) SAN
12 24 (2.62%) WAN
13 18 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (1.75%) FIX Connectivity
15 13 (1.42%) Wireless
16 10 (1.09%) VLAN
17 7 (0.77%) SSL
17 7 (0.77%) Wireshark
18 6 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (40.87%) MongoDB
2 258 (28.20%) DB2
3 245 (26.78%) PostgreSQL
4 243 (26.56%) NoSQL
5 137 (14.97%) Relational Database
6 64 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (6.34%) SQL Server
9 39 (4.26%) Oracle Database
10 29 (3.17%) Hadoop
11 27 (2.95%) Big Data
11 27 (2.95%) Cloudera CDH
12 18 (1.97%) MySQL
13 12 (1.31%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.22%) Metadata
15 2 (0.22%) Neo4j
16 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (5.79%) Git
2 42 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.75%) GitLab
4 13 (1.42%) JIRA
5 10 (1.09%) Maven
6 9 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.44%) Subversion
9 3 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.33%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.22%) JUnit
10 2 (0.22%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.11%) JMeter
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 405 (44.26%) Public Sector
2 218 (23.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 183 (20.00%) Finance
4 59 (6.45%) Banking
5 50 (5.46%) Social Skills
6 44 (4.81%) Aerospace
7 29 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.53%) Retail Banking
10 8 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.55%) Retail
12 4 (0.44%) Automotive
12 4 (0.44%) Military
13 3 (0.33%) Billing
13 3 (0.33%) Japanese Language
13 3 (0.33%) Law
13 3 (0.33%) Legal
14 2 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (16.28%) Full Stack Engineer
2 133 (14.54%) Developer
3 126 (13.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 125 (13.66%) Azure Developer
5 112 (12.24%) Senior
6 111 (12.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 110 (12.02%) Azure Engineer
8 89 (9.73%) Linux Engineer
9 86 (9.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (8.31%) Administrator
11 70 (7.65%) Consultant
12 54 (5.90%) NetApp Consultant
13 52 (5.68%) Software Engineer
14 46 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 39 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (3.72%) DBA
17 29 (3.17%) Architect
17 29 (3.17%) DV Cleared DBA
17 29 (3.17%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (33.66%) React
2 267 (29.18%) REST
3 265 (28.96%) AngularJS
4 254 (27.76%) .NET
5 246 (26.89%) HTML
6 245 (26.78%) Web Services
7 243 (26.56%) CSS
8 241 (26.34%) ASP.NET
9 240 (26.23%) ASP.NET Core
9 240 (26.23%) Vue
10 239 (26.12%) jQuery
11 238 (26.01%) Backbone.js
11 238 (26.01%) Ember.js
11 238 (26.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 190 (20.77%) Node.js
13 83 (9.07%) RabbitMQ
14 64 (6.99%) Swagger
15 57 (6.23%) YAML
16 43 (4.70%) Spring
17 36 (3.93%) KeystoneJS
Miscellaneous
1 405 (44.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 394 (43.06%) Blockchain
3 238 (26.01%) Algorithms
3 238 (26.01%) Data Structures
4 215 (23.50%) e-Learning
5 91 (9.95%) Data Centre
6 41 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.95%) Cloud Native
8 23 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 17 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.75%) Eurex
12 9 (0.98%) Clustering
13 7 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.77%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.77%) Replication
13 7 (0.77%) VAX
14 6 (0.66%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 759 (82.95%) Linux
2 511 (55.85%) Windows
3 257 (28.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 238 (26.01%) Android
4 238 (26.01%) Apple iOS
5 197 (21.53%) CentOS
6 96 (10.49%) Ubuntu
7 89 (9.73%) Debian
8 83 (9.07%) Windows Server
9 70 (7.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 63 (6.89%) Unix
11 55 (6.01%) Data ONTAP
12 46 (5.03%) Windows Server 2019
13 45 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
14 40 (4.37%) Alpine Linux
15 29 (3.17%) Solaris
16 21 (2.30%) Windows 10
17 19 (2.08%) CoreOS
18 17 (1.86%) AIX
19 11 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (43.83%) Artificial Intelligence
2 350 (38.25%) DevOps
3 279 (30.49%) Full Stack Development
4 278 (30.38%) Co-Creation
5 271 (29.62%) User Experience
6 264 (28.85%) Agile
6 264 (28.85%) Mentoring
7 248 (27.10%) Design Patterns
7 248 (27.10%) OO
7 248 (27.10%) SOLID
8 240 (26.23%) MVC
8 240 (26.23%) MVVM
8 240 (26.23%) OOP
8 240 (26.23%) Web Development
9 238 (26.01%) Design Thinking
9 238 (26.01%) Responsive Web Design
10 219 (23.93%) Coaching
11 148 (16.17%) Actionable Insight
12 126 (13.77%) API Management
13 125 (13.66%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 390 (42.62%) Python
2 339 (37.05%) JavaScript
3 301 (32.90%) SQL
4 270 (29.51%) Java
5 245 (26.78%) C#
6 193 (21.09%) Bash
7 159 (17.38%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.46%) Perl
9 40 (4.37%) Shell Script
10 36 (3.93%) Lua
11 31 (3.39%) Ruby
12 27 (2.95%) C
13 12 (1.31%) C++
14 10 (1.09%) Ada
14 10 (1.09%) Korn
15 3 (0.33%) PHP
15 3 (0.33%) R
15 3 (0.33%) Scala
15 3 (0.33%) VB
15 3 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 196 (21.42%) Security Cleared
2 161 (17.60%) DV Cleared
3 86 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 49 (5.36%) MCSE
4 49 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 48 (5.25%) MCSA
6 41 (4.48%) Azure Certification
7 30 (3.28%) Degree
8 9 (0.98%) CCNA
8 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (0.87%) RHCE
10 7 (0.77%) RHCSA
11 6 (0.66%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.55%) RHCA
12 5 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.75%) SLA
2 9 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.55%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.22%) NIST
4 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.11%) QA
System Software
1 218 (23.83%) Docker
2 177 (19.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (8.63%) Active Directory
4 59 (6.45%) Hyper-V
5 30 (3.28%) vSphere
6 24 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (1.97%) Firmware
8 17 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (1.20%) KVM
10 9 (0.98%) XenApp
11 8 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.55%) NFS
12 5 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.33%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.22%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.22%) Lustre
14 2 (0.22%) QEMU
14 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.22%) Xen
14 2 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 297 (32.46%) Kubernetes
2 265 (28.96%) Ansible
3 164 (17.92%) Terraform
4 130 (14.21%) Puppet
5 125 (13.66%) Prometheus
6 79 (8.63%) vCenter Server
7 27 (2.95%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.19%) Nagios
9 18 (1.97%) Red Hat Satellite
9 18 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.75%) SCCM
11 14 (1.53%) WSUS
12 10 (1.09%) Grafana
13 9 (0.98%) SCOM
13 9 (0.98%) ZABBIX
14 8 (0.87%) Nessus
15 7 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
16 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.66%) HAProxy
16 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 412 (45.03%) IBM
2 224 (24.48%) VMware
3 144 (15.74%) Microsoft
3 144 (15.74%) Oracle
4 66 (7.21%) Cisco
5 65 (7.10%) Palo Alto
6 59 (6.45%) Dynatrace
7 58 (6.34%) NetApp
8 54 (5.90%) SolidFire
9 31 (3.39%) Google
10 30 (3.28%) SaltStack
11 24 (2.62%) Citrix
12 19 (2.08%) EMC
12 19 (2.08%) Sybase
13 18 (1.97%) Veeam
14 17 (1.86%) F5
14 17 (1.86%) Splunk
15 16 (1.75%) ION Trading
15 16 (1.75%) Patsystems
15 16 (1.75%) Trayport