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 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 481 540
Rank change year-on-year -65 +59 +163
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 5 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.015% 0.023% 0.053%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.045% 0.074% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile £329 £455 £380
25th Percentile £374 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.32% +6.96% -
75th Percentile £502 £623 £700
90th Percentile £534 £624 £775
UK median daily rate £447 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -27.32% +11.82% -4.35%

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 11,114 8,112 11,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.29% 30.43% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,386 4,903 7,289
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £419 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 391 819
10th Percentile £15.78 £19.30 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £21.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -2.78% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63.18 £67.50 £65.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -17.89% +5.56%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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
London -21 3 £419 -31.91%
South East - 2 £447 -
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) CentOS
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Network Management
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) KVM
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (80.00%) Puppet
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (80.00%) VMware