RHCA Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for RHCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.035% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.097% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £539 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -6.30% -11.54% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,026 424 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.71% 32.15% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 290 397
10th Percentile £316 £150 £263
25th Percentile £408 £328 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £487 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +8.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £575
90th Percentile £644 £700 £663
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 17 39
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £18.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £23.04 £23.60 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -17.19% +42.50%
75th Percentile £38.81 £35.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £72.18 £39.14 £60.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £38.85
% change year-on-year -30.00% +28.70% -22.30%

RHCA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RHCA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

RHCA job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

RHCA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
Herefordshire - 1 - - 2
RHCA
England

RHCA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware