RHCSA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 345 377
Rank change year-on-year -44 +32 +107
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 2 1 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.007% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.030% 0.021% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 21
10th Percentile - - £419
25th Percentile - £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £590
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -32.20% -
75th Percentile - £425 £700
90th Percentile - - £775
UK median daily rate £447 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -27.32% +11.82% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,586 4,753 7,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.68% 34.52% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,150 2,815 4,330
10th Percentile £257 £225 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £649
90th Percentile £706 £700 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 368 629
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.68 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% -17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.77 £67.31 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.01 £75.08 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.51% -22.00% +11.11%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RHCSA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

RHCSA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RHCSA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RHCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RHCSA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RHCSA

RHCSA
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 RHCSA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
South East - 2 £447 - 1
RHCSA
UK

RHCSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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%) 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