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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 537 648
Rank change year-on-year +62 +111 +118
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 10 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.043% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £388 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £623 £538 -
90th Percentile £624 £575 -
UK median daily rate £600 £450 -
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

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 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCSA in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 May 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 - 8 £608 - 2
Midlands - 2 £400 -
West Midlands - 2 £400 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Benchmarking
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) RHCE
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) SELinux
3 4 (40.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) Nagios
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds