Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 701 778
Rank change year-on-year +115 +77 -131
Contract jobs citing RHCE 12 18 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.030% 0.080%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.090% 0.11% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 49
10th Percentile £340 £411 £363
25th Percentile £404 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £800
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -40.63% +60.00%
75th Percentile £616 £553 -
90th Percentile £681 £581 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £117.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £117.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCE over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RHCE.

Hourly rate trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +130 10 £575 +21.05% 7
UK excluding London +64 9 £450 -18.18% 6
Work from Home +128 3 £600 +26.32% 3
South East - 3 £450 - 1
London +95 2 - - 4
Scotland +25 2 £340 -38.18% 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £625 -
South West - 1 £550 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £625 - 1

RHCE
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) IPv4
3 1 (8.33%) OSPF
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Support
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Server Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Server Support
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Solaris
4 3 (25.00%) Unix
5 2 (16.67%) CentOS
5 2 (16.67%) Windows
6 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (25.00%) Compliance Management
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 2 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (16.67%) Server Hardening
3 2 (16.67%) SIEM
3 2 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) AWK
3 2 (16.67%) Bourne shell
3 2 (16.67%) Korn
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) RHCSA
4 2 (16.67%) CEH
4 2 (16.67%) CISM
4 2 (16.67%) CISSP
4 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (16.67%) SANS
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) GIAC
5 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (8.33%) LPIC
5 1 (8.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) KVM
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (8.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (16.67%) yum
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) AlienVault
3 2 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 2 (16.67%) Carbon Black
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) EMC
3 2 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Symantec
3 2 (16.67%) Veritas
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) QinetiQ