RHCE Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCE 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.35% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £490 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 - £450

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

RHCE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 754 450 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 44.54% 34.51% 45.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 234 463
10th Percentile £253 £252 £205
25th Percentile £340 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £538 £649 £615
90th Percentile £625 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 28 75
10th Percentile £20.79 £41.25 £42.00
25th Percentile £51.78 £55.87 £52.55
Median hourly rate £81.75 £61.63 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% +0.04% -5.23%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.09 £71.12
90th Percentile £99.25 £86.08 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £26.44 £56.75 £59.50
% change year-on-year -53.41% -4.63% +32.22%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RHCE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

RHCE job vacancy trend in Berkshire

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RHCE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RHCE

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RHCE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RHCE

RHCE
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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
Wokingham - 6 £500 - 1
RHCE
South East

RHCE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat