RHCA Contracts

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RHCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 597 708
Rank change year-on-year +91 +111 +136
Contract jobs citing RHCA 13 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.022% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -24.00%
75th Percentile £623 - £488
90th Percentile £625 - £495
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £500

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

RHCA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RHCA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RHCA in the UK

RHCA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RHCA.

Daily rate trend for RHCA in the UK

RHCA
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCA within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England - 12 £575 - 1
UK excluding London - 10 £575 -
South West - 10 £575 -
Work from Home +49 2 £584 +6.18% 4
London - 1 £615 - 1

RHCA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (76.92%) Confluence
2 3 (23.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Git
2 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
3 10 (76.92%) Bitbucket
3 10 (76.92%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) REST
1 10 (76.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Configuration Management
2 10 (76.92%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Automation
2 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (76.92%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Validation
3 9 (69.23%) NsoIT
3 9 (69.23%) Service Management
3 9 (69.23%) System Testing
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Bash
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) RHCE
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) CCNP
2 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (76.92%) OCA
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle Certification
2 10 (76.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Ansible
1 10 (76.92%) Progress Chef
1 10 (76.92%) Puppet
1 10 (76.92%) vCenter Server
2 3 (23.08%) Consul
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Packer
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Atlassian
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat