RHCSA Contract Job Trends in England

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 509 522
Rank change year-on-year -122 +13 +66
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 9 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% 0.018% 0.003%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.062% 0.057% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £499 £366 -
25th Percentile £509 £372 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £388 £520
Median % change year-on-year +57.42% -25.48% -0.95%
75th Percentile - £397 £530
90th Percentile £648 £399 -
UK median daily rate £564 £388 £520
% change year-on-year +45.48% -25.48% -0.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,565 8,752 10,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.73% 31.55% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,799 5,500 6,410
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £437 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,130 683 703
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.22 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -47.60% -12.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +94.83% -41.51% -21.82%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RHCSA job vacancy trend in England

RHCSA
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCSA in England over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RHCSA in England

RHCSA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RHCSA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RHCSA

RHCSA
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 RHCSA within the England region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
South East - 5 £610 -
London -92 2 - -
North West - 1 £492 -
South West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £492 -
RHCSA
UK

RHCSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) EDI
1 1 (11.11%) Jakarta EE
1 1 (11.11%) LAMP
1 1 (11.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) CMDB
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
1 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) RHCE
2 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) LFCS
4 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) LPIC
6 1 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (11.11%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Ceph
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) FreeIPA
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) Podman
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (11.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) VMware