RHCSA Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.046% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £610 £388 £560
% change year-on-year +57.42% -30.80% -1.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 491 401 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.45% 23.74% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 246 305
10th Percentile £303 £181 £178
25th Percentile £358 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £576 £525 £588
90th Percentile £768 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 32 43
10th Percentile £16.09 £16.84 £12.34
25th Percentile £23.26 £17.80 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +175.00% +11.11% -43.90%
75th Percentile £64.00 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £73.80 £44.06 £54.50
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £27.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +89.09% -32.83% -25.56%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

RHCSA job vacancy trend in Scotland

RHCSA
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RHCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCSA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Edinburgh - 1 £450 - 3
RHCSA
UK

RHCSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat