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 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 364 400
Rank change year-on-year -14 +36 +111
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 2 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.006% 0.097%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.037% 0.017% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - £510 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £520 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% -7.56% -0.44%
75th Percentile - £530 £672
90th Percentile - - £775
UK median daily rate £424 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -18.56% -0.95% -8.30%

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 5,358 6,054 7,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.10% 34.31% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,246 3,555 4,575
10th Percentile £218 £282 £281
25th Percentile £399 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +3.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 685 552 601
10th Percentile £17.87 £16.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.51 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +1.18% +17.93%
75th Percentile £40.65 £69.70 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.08 £79.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% -7.41% +20.00%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCSA 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 22 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
South East - 2 £447 - 1
RHCSA
UK

RHCSA
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:

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