Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RHCA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 975 1221
Rank change year-on-year +103 +246 -304
Permanent jobs citing RHCA 5 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.018% 0.009% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £87,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile - £103,750 £92,500
90th Percentile - £110,500 £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,423 33,905 42,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.66% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17,333 15,229 18,987
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

RHCA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCA in the UK

RHCA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RHCA.

Salary trend for RHCA in the UK

RHCA
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCA 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
London +125 5 - -
England +89 5 - - 1
Work from Home +96 4 - - 1

RHCA
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 5 (100.00%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Integration Architect
1 5 (100.00%) IT Architect
1 5 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Architect
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (100.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) VMware