RHCE Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCE 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.33% - 0.036%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% - 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
South East median daily rate £500 - £450

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,074 600 1,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 44.82% 35.69% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 340 668
10th Percentile £258 £243 £205
25th Percentile £356 £383 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +1.49%
75th Percentile £573 £636 £615
90th Percentile £638 £676 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 33 96
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.89 £18.00
25th Percentile £19.38 £42.88 £44.41
Median hourly rate £29.61 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +5.48% +4.21%
75th Percentile £83.00 £65.62 £68.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.86 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £26.44 £56.75 £59.50
% change year-on-year -53.41% -4.63% +32.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

RHCE job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCE in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RHCE in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RHCE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RHCE

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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 RHCE within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 February 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
Berkshire - 6 £500 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 2 £610 - 3
RHCE
South East

RHCE
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 6 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) LFCS
2 2 (25.00%) RHCSA
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) LPIC
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat