Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 971 1117
Rank change year-on-year +86 +146 -280
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 11 17 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.016% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.040% 0.050% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 85
10th Percentile - £54,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £41,500 £58,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £73,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.97% +8.89% +22.73%
75th Percentile £57,500 £78,250 £120,000
90th Percentile - £82,150 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £73,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -31.97% +40.00% -3.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,419 33,991 41,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.84% 32.70% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 17,335 15,221 18,973
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +123 11 £50,000 -30.56% 10
UK excluding London -21 11 £50,000 -31.97% 9
South West -3 10 £50,000 -33.33% 4
South East +20 1 - - 1

RHCE
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:

Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
1 5 (45.45%) LAN
1 5 (45.45%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Marketing
1 5 (45.45%) Retail
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Administrator
1 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (45.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Manager
2 5 (45.45%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Unix Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) CentOS
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Solaris
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Business Continuity
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) CRM
2 5 (45.45%) Customer Retention
2 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
2 5 (45.45%) High Availability
2 5 (45.45%) Load Balancing
2 5 (45.45%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Time Management
3 1 (9.09%) Benchmarking
3 1 (9.09%) Budgeting
3 1 (9.09%) Change Management
3 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security
3 1 (9.09%) Server Hardening
3 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) AWK
2 1 (9.09%) Bourne shell
2 1 (9.09%) Korn
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) RHCSA
2 6 (54.55%) Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) PMI Certification
3 5 (45.45%) PMP
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (45.45%) Puppet
2 5 (45.45%) Rancher
3 1 (9.09%) NetBackup
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) EMC
3 1 (9.09%) Veritas