RHCA Contracts in England

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RHCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 - 668
Rank change year-on-year - - +105
Contract jobs citing RHCA 12 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% - 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% - 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.00%
75th Percentile £624 - £488
90th Percentile £625 - £495
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -24.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,643 11,605 13,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.31% 31.23% 27.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,844 7,129 9,339
10th Percentile £290 £308 £331
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 987 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.24
25th Percentile £22.33 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +40.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.55 £77.19 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%

RHCA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCA in England

RHCA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RHCA in England.

Daily rate trend for RHCA in England

RHCA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCA within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
South West - 10 £575 -
London - 1 £615 - 1
RHCA
UK

RHCA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (75.00%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Git
2 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (83.33%) Bitbucket
4 9 (75.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) REST
1 10 (83.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 10 (83.33%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (83.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Validation
3 9 (75.00%) NsoIT
3 9 (75.00%) Service Management
3 9 (75.00%) System Testing
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Bash
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) RHCE
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) CCNP
2 10 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (83.33%) OCA
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle Certification
2 10 (83.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Ansible
1 10 (83.33%) Progress Chef
1 10 (83.33%) Puppet
1 10 (83.33%) vCenter Server
2 2 (16.67%) Consul
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Packer
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco
1 10 (83.33%) Oracle
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
2 7 (58.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat