RHCE Contract Job Trends in the South East

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 - 215
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCE 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.049% - 0.038%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% - 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £510
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £590
England median daily rate £449 £520 £568
% change year-on-year -13.75% -8.37% +8.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,690 1,627 2,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 41.64% 39.53% 42.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,052 1,337
10th Percentile £238 £275 £213
25th Percentile £406 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.19%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 100 146
10th Percentile - £22.49 £26.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £49.79
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.89% -2.77% +33.33%
75th Percentile £64.06 £68.42 £71.74
90th Percentile £89.63 £87.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.58
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.69% +19.07%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

RHCE job vacancy trend in the South East

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RHCE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RHCE

RHCE
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RHCE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RHCE

RHCE
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Hampshire - 2 £447 -
RHCE
England

RHCE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware