RHCA Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for RHCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.096% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South West median daily rate £553 £575 -
% change year-on-year -3.91% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

RHCA 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 432 264 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 41.42% 46.81% 47.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 124 255
10th Percentile £363 £188 £400
25th Percentile £450 £356 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -12.92% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £661
90th Percentile £775 £743 £717
South West median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 52 97
10th Percentile £17.87 £31.40 £42.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £60.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -49.23% +15.06% -13.09%

RHCA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) OCA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
RHCA jobs