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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 373 474
Rank change year-on-year +61 +101 -153
Permanent jobs citing Red Hat 901 904 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.87% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 2.46% 2.08% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 305 413 652
10th Percentile £41,350 £41,575 £37,500
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% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,500 £77,715 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £109,500 £102,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -

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 36,669 43,411 60,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.21% 41.82% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25,167 24,775 33,236
10th Percentile £26,700 £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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,150 £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 2 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 2 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 +112 858 £60,000 -4.00% 181
UK excluding London +68 710 £52,500 -8.70% 140
South East +113 220 £50,000 +3.09% 14
Work from Home -63 182 £60,000 -1.64% 64
London +15 179 £85,000 +21.43% 72
North of England +105 177 £50,000 -4.76% 30
South West +35 164 £52,500 -11.80% 19
North West +75 150 £70,000 +47.37% 16
Midlands +20 88 £50,000 -16.67% 27
East Midlands +19 84 £24,750 -58.75% 5
East of England -18 28 £60,000 +10.09% 14
Yorkshire +78 25 £47,000 -27.35% 1
Scotland -86 17 £48,500 -18.52% 20
Wales -16 13 - -
Northern Ireland +26 5 - - 18
West Midlands +4 4 £60,000 +26.32% 22
North East - 2 £50,000 - 13

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 97 (10.77%) Apache
2 48 (5.33%) nginx
3 36 (4.00%) Camunda
4 32 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (2.77%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.11%) OpenStack
7 9 (1.00%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.67%) IIS
9 5 (0.55%) JBoss
10 4 (0.44%) Confluence
11 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.22%) Moodle
12 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.11%) CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
13 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 15 (1.66%) Fidessa
2 8 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.33%) 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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.11%) Sage X3
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
1 414 (45.95%) Azure
2 381 (42.29%) IBM Cloud
3 250 (27.75%) AWS
4 163 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
5 158 (17.54%) OpenShift
6 147 (16.32%) Serverless
7 120 (13.32%) Azure API Management
7 120 (13.32%) Azure Functions
7 120 (13.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 120 (13.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 114 (12.65%) Amazon S3
9 84 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
10 60 (6.66%) OCI
11 57 (6.33%) Amazon ECR
11 57 (6.33%) Route 53
12 54 (5.99%) GCP
13 46 (5.11%) SaaS
14 42 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 115 (12.76%) Firewall
2 89 (9.88%) DNS
3 78 (8.66%) TCP/IP
4 77 (8.55%) VPN
5 71 (7.88%) DHCP
6 66 (7.33%) Internet
7 57 (6.33%) SNMP
8 54 (5.99%) IPsec
9 43 (4.77%) HTTP
10 28 (3.11%) LAN
10 28 (3.11%) WAN
11 26 (2.89%) SAN
12 25 (2.77%) AMQP
13 17 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (1.66%) FIX Connectivity
15 11 (1.22%) Wireless
16 10 (1.11%) VLAN
17 6 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
17 6 (0.67%) Wireshark
18 5 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (39.96%) MongoDB
2 245 (27.19%) DB2
3 234 (25.97%) PostgreSQL
4 231 (25.64%) NoSQL
5 131 (14.54%) Relational Database
6 63 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
7 61 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
8 56 (6.22%) SQL Server
9 40 (4.44%) Oracle Database
10 27 (3.00%) Hadoop
11 25 (2.77%) Big Data
11 25 (2.77%) Cloudera CDH
12 20 (2.22%) MySQL
13 11 (1.22%) 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%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 58 (6.44%) Git
2 37 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.11%) GitLab
4 14 (1.55%) JIRA
5 10 (1.11%) Maven
6 7 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.67%) 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
1 395 (43.84%) Public Sector
2 210 (23.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 179 (19.87%) Finance
4 58 (6.44%) Banking
5 47 (5.22%) Social Skills
6 38 (4.22%) Aerospace
7 30 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.55%) Retail Banking
10 8 (0.89%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.55%) Retail
12 4 (0.44%) Military
13 3 (0.33%) Billing
13 3 (0.33%) Games
13 3 (0.33%) Japanese Language
13 3 (0.33%) Law
13 3 (0.33%) Legal
13 3 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (15.76%) Full Stack Engineer
2 128 (14.21%) Developer
3 121 (13.43%) Full Stack Developer
4 120 (13.32%) Azure Developer
5 117 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 111 (12.32%) Senior
7 103 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
8 90 (9.99%) Linux Engineer
9 83 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 74 (8.21%) Administrator
11 70 (7.77%) Consultant
12 54 (5.99%) NetApp Consultant
13 50 (5.55%) Software Engineer
14 45 (4.99%) Senior DevOps
14 45 (4.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 39 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 33 (3.66%) DBA
17 30 (3.33%) Architect
18 29 (3.22%) Linux Administrator
19 28 (3.11%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (32.41%) React
2 255 (28.30%) REST
3 251 (27.86%) AngularJS
4 241 (26.75%) .NET
5 233 (25.86%) Web Services
6 232 (25.75%) HTML
7 229 (25.42%) ASP.NET
7 229 (25.42%) CSS
8 228 (25.31%) ASP.NET Core
8 228 (25.31%) Vue
9 227 (25.19%) jQuery
10 226 (25.08%) Backbone.js
10 226 (25.08%) Ember.js
10 226 (25.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 183 (20.31%) Node.js
12 81 (8.99%) RabbitMQ
13 62 (6.88%) Swagger
14 57 (6.33%) YAML
15 40 (4.44%) Spring
16 36 (4.00%) KeystoneJS
Miscellaneous
1 389 (43.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 381 (42.29%) Blockchain
3 226 (25.08%) Algorithms
3 226 (25.08%) Data Structures
4 207 (22.97%) e-Learning
5 96 (10.65%) Data Centre
6 41 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (2.77%) Cloud Native
8 23 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
8 23 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.33%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.66%) Eurex
12 9 (1.00%) Clustering
13 7 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.78%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.78%) Replication
13 7 (0.78%) VAX
14 6 (0.67%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 746 (82.80%) Linux
2 504 (55.94%) Windows
3 256 (28.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 227 (25.19%) Android
5 226 (25.08%) Apple iOS
6 195 (21.64%) CentOS
7 93 (10.32%) Ubuntu
8 88 (9.77%) Windows Server
9 87 (9.66%) Debian
10 68 (7.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 59 (6.55%) Unix
12 55 (6.10%) Data ONTAP
13 46 (5.11%) Windows Server 2019
14 44 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
15 40 (4.44%) Alpine Linux
16 24 (2.66%) Solaris
17 20 (2.22%) CoreOS
17 20 (2.22%) Windows 10
18 16 (1.78%) AIX
19 11 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (43.06%) Artificial Intelligence
2 347 (38.51%) DevOps
3 267 (29.63%) Full Stack Development
4 266 (29.52%) Co-Creation
5 258 (28.63%) User Experience
6 257 (28.52%) Mentoring
7 250 (27.75%) Agile
8 236 (26.19%) Design Patterns
8 236 (26.19%) OO
8 236 (26.19%) SOLID
9 228 (25.31%) MVC
9 228 (25.31%) MVVM
9 228 (25.31%) OOP
9 228 (25.31%) Web Development
10 226 (25.08%) Design Thinking
10 226 (25.08%) Responsive Web Design
11 212 (23.53%) Coaching
12 156 (17.31%) Actionable Insight
13 122 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 121 (13.43%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 390 (43.29%) Python
2 323 (35.85%) JavaScript
3 288 (31.96%) SQL
4 262 (29.08%) Java
5 233 (25.86%) C#
6 201 (22.31%) Bash
7 160 (17.76%) PowerShell
8 48 (5.33%) Perl
9 37 (4.11%) Shell Script
10 36 (4.00%) Lua
11 33 (3.66%) Ruby
12 29 (3.22%) C
13 13 (1.44%) Korn
14 12 (1.33%) C++
15 10 (1.11%) Ada
16 3 (0.33%) PHP
16 3 (0.33%) R
16 3 (0.33%) Scala
16 3 (0.33%) VB
16 3 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 193 (21.42%) Security Cleared
2 158 (17.54%) DV Cleared
3 83 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 49 (5.44%) MCSE
4 49 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 48 (5.33%) MCSA
6 41 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.55%) Degree
8 9 (1.00%) CCNA
8 9 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.78%) RHCE
9 7 (0.78%) RHCSA
10 6 (0.67%) A+ Certification
11 5 (0.55%) RHCA
11 5 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.66%) SLA
2 9 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.55%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.22%) NIST
4 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.11%) NCSC
5 1 (0.11%) QA
System Software
1 214 (23.75%) Docker
2 176 (19.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (9.21%) Active Directory
4 60 (6.66%) Hyper-V
5 29 (3.22%) vSphere
6 24 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (2.00%) Firmware
8 15 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (1.22%) KVM
10 8 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.78%) NFS
11 7 (0.78%) XenApp
12 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.33%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.22%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.22%) Lustre
13 2 (0.22%) QEMU
13 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.22%) Xen
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 292 (32.41%) Kubernetes
2 263 (29.19%) Ansible
3 157 (17.43%) Terraform
4 129 (14.32%) Puppet
5 120 (13.32%) Prometheus
6 78 (8.66%) vCenter Server
7 27 (3.00%) Progress Chef
8 21 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 17 (1.89%) SCCM
10 16 (1.78%) Nagios
10 16 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (1.55%) WSUS
12 9 (1.00%) Grafana
12 9 (1.00%) SCOM
12 9 (1.00%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.89%) Nessus
14 7 (0.78%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 5 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
16 5 (0.55%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 398 (44.17%) IBM
2 224 (24.86%) VMware
3 142 (15.76%) Microsoft
4 140 (15.54%) Oracle
5 70 (7.77%) Cisco
6 65 (7.21%) Palo Alto
7 58 (6.44%) Dynatrace
7 58 (6.44%) NetApp
8 54 (5.99%) SolidFire
9 29 (3.22%) Google
10 27 (3.00%) SaltStack
11 22 (2.44%) Citrix
12 19 (2.11%) EMC
12 19 (2.11%) Veeam
13 18 (2.00%) Sybase
14 15 (1.66%) Bloomberg
14 15 (1.66%) CQG
14 15 (1.66%) ION Trading
14 15 (1.66%) Reuters
14 15 (1.66%) Trayport