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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 525 538
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +214
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 6 2 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.020% 0.006% 0.079%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.059% 0.022% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 23
10th Percentile £329 £520 £500
25th Percentile £374 £534 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £568 £590
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -3.81% +2.61%
75th Percentile £502 £599 £688
90th Percentile £534 £613 £775
UK median daily rate £447 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -21.23% +3.18% +1.38%

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 10,210 9,268 11,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.43% 29.84% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,617 5,670 7,418
10th Percentile £305 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 437 711
10th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.06 £27.00 £26.77
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -6.54% +18.89%
75th Percentile £52.00 £68.00 £69.81
90th Percentile £74.48 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -44.11% -16.15% +19.26%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 -6 4 £419 -31.91% 3
South East - 2 £447 - 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) CentOS
3 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Network Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Security Management
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) RHCE
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) KVM
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 4 (66.67%) Puppet
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) VMware