Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RHCSA 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 593 713 823
Rank change year-on-year +120 +110 -153
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 5 6 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.010% 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.038% 0.037% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 17
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £425 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £575 - £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £523
% change year-on-year - - +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £81.80
25th Percentile - - £82.63
Median hourly rate - - £84.00
75th Percentile - - £84.38
90th Percentile - - £84.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £84.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCSA 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%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Top 4 Contract Locations

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 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 +128 5 £450 - 2
South East - 5 £450 -
UK excluding London - 5 £450 - 1
Work from Home +131 1 £600 -

RHCSA
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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Server Hardening
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) AWK
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (40.00%) Korn
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) RHCE
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (40.00%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Veritas
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
4 1 (20.00%) IBM