RHCA Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for RHCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.035% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.075% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £615 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

RHCA 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,330 553 1,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 45.97% 36.72% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 320 601
10th Percentile £300 £306 £213
25th Percentile £393 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +0.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 32 109
10th Percentile £16.80 £19.12 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £32.05 £41.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +5.48% -0.77%
75th Percentile £85.50 £70.00 £70.39
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.35 £87.09
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £56.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -4.85% -1.05% +4.37%

RHCA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RHCA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

RHCA job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RHCA
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RHCA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RHCA

RHCA
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £615 -
RHCA
South East

RHCA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) OpenSCAP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow