RHCE Contracts in England

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 532 645
Rank change year-on-year +70 +113 +81
Contract jobs citing RHCE 23 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.027% 0.016%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.30% 0.086% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 6
10th Percentile £415 £425 £431
25th Percentile £506 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -40.63%
75th Percentile £605 £647 £488
90th Percentile £625 £694 -
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -40.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £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 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCE in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for RHCE in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCE in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RHCE in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RHCE in England.

Hourly rate trend for RHCE in England

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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 RHCE within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +56 11 £575 +4.55% 1
London +41 5 £525 - 8
North of England +22 4 £520 -16.84% 1
North West +20 4 £520 -16.84% 1
Midlands +23 2 £400 -
West Midlands - 2 £400 -
RHCE
UK

RHCE
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 (39.13%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Git
1 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
2 10 (43.48%) Bitbucket
3 9 (39.13%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
General
1 1 (4.35%) Finance
1 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) REST
1 10 (43.48%) SOAP
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (47.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (39.13%) Windows
3 9 (39.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
1 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (47.83%) Configuration Management
3 10 (43.48%) Deployment Automation
3 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure Automation
3 10 (43.48%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (43.48%) Validation
4 9 (39.13%) NsoIT
4 9 (39.13%) Service Management
4 9 (39.13%) System Testing
5 7 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (26.09%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (4.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) Bash
3 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
4 5 (21.74%) Ruby
4 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (52.17%) RHCA
4 10 (43.48%) CCNP
4 10 (43.48%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (43.48%) OCA
4 10 (43.48%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (43.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (21.74%) RHCSA
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) CISSP
6 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (4.35%) Degree
6 1 (4.35%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (21.74%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) NFS
4 1 (4.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Ansible
2 11 (47.83%) Puppet
3 10 (43.48%) Progress Chef
3 10 (43.48%) vCenter Server
4 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
5 4 (17.39%) Terraform
6 3 (13.04%) SELinux
7 2 (8.70%) Consul
7 2 (8.70%) Nagios
7 2 (8.70%) Packer
8 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
8 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Red Hat
1 13 (56.52%) VMware
2 10 (43.48%) Cisco
2 10 (43.48%) Oracle
3 7 (30.43%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds