RHCE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 437 508
Rank change year-on-year +52 +71 -93
Contract jobs citing RHCE 11 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.043% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.13% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile - £446 £466
25th Percentile £340 £497 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% -11.36%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £497
90th Percentile £613 £619 £499
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £800
% change year-on-year -5.26% -40.63% +60.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

RHCE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,550 7,726 7,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.93% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,173 5,169
10th Percentile £270 £287 £255
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £712 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 644 522
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.94 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.52
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +56.79% -7.67%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £55.96
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RHCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RHCE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RHCE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +35 4 £340 -38.18% 3
South East - 3 £450 - 1
South West - 1 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £625 -
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £625 - 1
RHCE
UK

RHCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (9.09%) IPv4
3 1 (9.09%) OSPF
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Linux Support
2 4 (36.36%) Linux Support Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Unix Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Server Support
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Clustering
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (54.55%) Solaris
4 3 (27.27%) Unix
5 1 (9.09%) CentOS
5 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (9.09%) Windows
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Compliance Management
1 5 (45.45%) High Availability
2 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Benchmarking
4 2 (18.18%) Budgeting
4 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
4 2 (18.18%) Server Hardening
4 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
4 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
5 1 (9.09%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) AWK
2 2 (18.18%) Bourne shell
2 2 (18.18%) Korn
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) RHCSA
4 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (9.09%) GIAC
5 1 (9.09%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (9.09%) LPIC
5 1 (9.09%) MCSE
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) KVM
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Docker
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 1 (9.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (18.18%) yum
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) EMC
3 2 (18.18%) Veritas
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle