RHCSA Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 550 632
Rank change year-on-year +61 +82 +143
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 5 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.063% 0.035% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £366 £519 -
25th Percentile £372 £533 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year -30.80% -10.40% +7.16%
75th Percentile £397 £583 £638
90th Percentile £399 £593 -
UK median daily rate £388 £560 £625
% change year-on-year -30.80% -10.40% +13.64%

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 7,956 11,322 12,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.02% 30.49% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,004 6,987 8,579
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 1,002 635
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.67
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.60 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% -22.73% +32.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.45 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £40.94 £55.68
% change year-on-year -31.61% -26.47% +25.11%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCSA in England

RHCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for RHCSA in England

RHCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for RHCSA in England

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 1 July 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
London - 4 £388 - 6
Midlands +14 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
RHCSA
UK

RHCSA
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Systems Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) RHCE
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) iptables
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SELinux
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds