RHCSA Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
North West median daily rate £492 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

RHCSA 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 243 126 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.17% 29.79% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 88 83
10th Percentile £331 £230 £132
25th Percentile £359 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £416 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -7.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £590 £541 £538
90th Percentile £652 £586 £679
North West median daily rate £478 £480 £512
% change year-on-year -0.33% -6.31% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £26.69 £28.43 -
25th Percentile £29.99 £31.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.26 £32.50 £20.33
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% +59.86% -49.18%
75th Percentile £90.60 £85.63 £26.66
90th Percentile £111.15 £86.00 £35.83
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -57.17%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

RHCSA job vacancy trend in Cheshire

RHCSA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing RHCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCSA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 April 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
Knutsford - 1 £492 -
RHCSA
North West

RHCSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft