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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 491 546
Rank change year-on-year -103 +55 +80
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 9 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.021% 0.020% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.066% 0.064% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £500 £366 £442
25th Percentile £521 £372 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £388 £520
Median % change year-on-year +57.42% -25.48% -
75th Percentile - £397 £565
90th Percentile £641 £399 £586
UK median daily rate £610 £388 £520
% change year-on-year +57.42% -25.48% +1.96%

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 13,719 7,809 11,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.58% 31.18% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,272 4,915 7,009
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £719 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,038 510 1,012
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.01
25th Percentile £22.81 £20.06 £20.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -28.99% -23.18%
75th Percentile £73.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £77.59 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £29.25 £40.33
% change year-on-year +70.94% -27.46% -26.85%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 - 7 £610 - 2
North of England - 2 £492 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North West - 1 £492 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) CMDB
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) RHCE
2 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
3 6 (66.67%) LFCS
4 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) LPIC
6 1 (11.11%) Degree
6 1 (11.11%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) KVM
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) VMware