RHCE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 384 445
Rank change year-on-year +67 +61 +69
Contract jobs citing RHCE 17 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.048% 0.042%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 4
10th Percentile £474 - £446
25th Percentile £520 £340 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £591
90th Percentile £625 £619 £619
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -40.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,548 7,661 7,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.60% 37.01% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 4,410 5,340
10th Percentile £210 £269 £280
25th Percentile £390 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +0.19% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 936 667
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.96
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.09 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RHCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RHCE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RHCE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for RHCE in the UK excluding London

RHCE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
South West +40 11 £575 +4.55% 1
North of England +14 4 £520 -16.84% 1
North West +13 4 £520 -16.84% 1
Midlands +19 2 £400 -
West Midlands - 2 £400 -
RHCE
UK

RHCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Bitbucket
1 10 (58.82%) Git
2 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (41.18%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) REST
1 10 (58.82%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server
3 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Configuration Management
2 10 (58.82%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Automation
2 10 (58.82%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Validation
3 9 (52.94%) NsoIT
3 9 (52.94%) Service Management
3 9 (52.94%) System Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.88%) High Availability
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (5.88%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) Bash
3 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
4 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
5 4 (23.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (58.82%) CCNP
3 10 (58.82%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (58.82%) OCA
3 10 (58.82%) Oracle Certification
3 10 (58.82%) RHCA
3 10 (58.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (11.76%) RHCSA
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.88%) Linux+ Certification
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) NFS
3 1 (5.88%) Samba
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Ansible
2 10 (58.82%) Progress Chef
2 10 (58.82%) Puppet
2 10 (58.82%) vCenter Server
3 3 (17.65%) SELinux
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Nagios
4 1 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco
2 10 (58.82%) Oracle
3 7 (41.18%) Atlassian
3 7 (41.18%) Red Hat