RHCE Contracts

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 571 659
Rank change year-on-year +62 +88 +176
Contract jobs citing RHCE 21 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.037% 0.048%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 18
10th Percentile £414 £207 -
25th Percentile £499 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £340 £488
Median % change year-on-year +69.12% -30.26% -11.36%
75th Percentile £588 £541 £575
90th Percentile £625 £598 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £340 £550
% change year-on-year +69.12% -38.18% +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,581 12,940 14,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.89% 29.82% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,919 7,996 9,928
10th Percentile £275 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 1,112 731
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.81 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.94 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year -31.61% -26.70% +25.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.28 £43.00 £54.11
% change year-on-year -38.88% -20.54% +50.31%

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 2 July 2025.

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 9 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 2 July 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 +70 19 £575 - 30
UK excluding London +51 17 £575 +69.12% 17
South West +48 11 £575 +4.55% 3
North West +14 5 £520 -16.84% 6
North of England +13 5 £520 -16.84% 7
Work from Home +39 2 £553 -7.92% 16
London +38 2 £375 - 15
Midlands +5 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) FTP
1 2 (9.52%) VSAN
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Git
2 10 (47.62%) Bitbucket
2 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (33.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Lead Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) REST
1 10 (47.62%) SOAP
2 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (52.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Configuration Management
1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Automation
2 10 (47.62%) Reverse Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Validation
3 9 (42.86%) NsoIT
3 9 (42.86%) Service Management
3 9 (42.86%) System Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
7 2 (9.52%) Security Hardening
7 2 (9.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) Bash
3 9 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (28.57%) Ruby
4 6 (28.57%) Shell Script
5 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
1 12 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (47.62%) CCNP
3 10 (47.62%) OCA
3 10 (47.62%) Oracle Certification
3 10 (47.62%) RHCA
4 3 (14.29%) CISSP
4 3 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (14.29%) RHCSA
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
5 2 (9.52%) CCNA
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.76%) Degree
6 1 (4.76%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) NFS
3 1 (4.76%) Samba
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Ansible
2 12 (57.14%) vCenter Server
3 11 (52.38%) Puppet
4 10 (47.62%) Progress Chef
5 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 2 (9.52%) Nagios
5 2 (9.52%) SELinux
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) Terraform
6 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) VMware
2 12 (57.14%) Cisco
3 11 (52.38%) Red Hat
4 10 (47.62%) Oracle
5 7 (33.33%) Atlassian
6 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 2 (9.52%) Dell
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
7 2 (9.52%) Veeam