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

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 533 574
Rank change year-on-year +20 +41 +194
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 8 1 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.003% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.091% 0.010% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 15
10th Percentile £330 - £500
25th Percentile £375 £510 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% -0.95% -17.32%
75th Percentile £474 £530 £706
90th Percentile £523 - £775
UK median daily rate £424 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -18.56% -0.95% -8.30%

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 8,775 9,784 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.59% 29.71% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,588 6,019 7,854
10th Percentile £303 £325 £325
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 691 570 680
10th Percentile £17.96 £17.46 £16.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £24.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.43% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £69.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% -9.26% +20.00%

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
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 £400 - 2
South East - 2 £447 - 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) CentOS
3 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) RHCE
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) KVM
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
3 2 (25.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (50.00%) Puppet
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (25.00%) SELinux
5 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) VMware