RHCSA Contract Job Trends

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 565 618
Rank change year-on-year +8 +53 +218
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 8 1 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.003% 0.056%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.078% 0.009% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 19
10th Percentile £330 - £500
25th Percentile £375 £510 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% -0.95% -8.30%
75th Percentile £474 £530 £638
90th Percentile £523 - £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £520 £563
% change year-on-year -14.04% -7.56% -0.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,275 11,218 13,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.46% 29.22% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,413 6,889 8,997
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 647 746
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £24.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% -9.26% +20.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.00 £69.40
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.55 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.35 £51.89
% change year-on-year -51.95% +0.88% +16.19%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCSA over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCSA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Top 5 Contract Job 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 21 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
England +22 8 £424 -18.56% 6
London - 6 £400 - 2
UK excluding London +12 2 £447 -14.04% 4
South East - 2 £447 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £492 - 5

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 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) CentOS
3 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) RHCE
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) KVM
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
3 2 (25.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (50.00%) Puppet
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (25.00%) SELinux
5 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) VMware