RHCE Contract Job Trends in London

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 366 394
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 +148
Contract jobs citing RHCE 7 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.048% 0.020% 0.054%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% 0.077% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £325 £455 £544
25th Percentile £363 £500 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £800
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -25.00% +60.97%
75th Percentile £516 £624 £825
90th Percentile £540 £625 -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £583
% change year-on-year +11.11% -22.75% +10.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

RHCE 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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,126 3,871 4,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.55% 25.86% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,874 2,441 2,977
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £426 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 59 88
10th Percentile £20.59 £21.00 £19.18
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.63 £23.19
Median hourly rate £25.47 £39.00 £47.44
Median % change year-on-year -34.69% -17.79% +7.55%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.38 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.37 £52.05
% change year-on-year -46.91% -8.99% +15.67%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RHCE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

RHCE job vacancy trend in London

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RHCE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RHCE

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCE in London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RHCE in London

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RHCE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RHCE

RHCE
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
West London - 2 - - 2
Central London -5 1 £538 +19.44%
RHCE
England

RHCE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Hedge funds
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (71.43%) CentOS
3 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) RHCSA
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) KVM
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Nagios
3 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) VMware