RHCSA Contract Job Trends in the South East

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 161 - 213
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.057% - 0.036%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £601
25th Percentile - - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £613
75th Percentile - - £628
90th Percentile - - £634
England median daily rate £424 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -18.56% -0.95% -17.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,353 1,964 2,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 38.86% 42.72% 38.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 1,235 1,335
10th Percentile £222 £328 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £715 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 150 139
10th Percentile - £22.15 £26.49
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.85 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.17 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.77% -3.05% +33.33%
75th Percentile £62.13 £73.29 £73.65
90th Percentile £81.00 £87.46 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -53.43% - +20.00%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RHCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RHCSA in the South East

RHCSA
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

RHCSA
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 RHCSA within the South East 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
Hampshire - 2 £447 - 1
RHCSA
England

RHCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 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%) RHCE
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