RHCE Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 342 471
Rank change year-on-year +42 +129 +132
Contract jobs citing RHCE 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.020% 0.023%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.071% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £436 - £419
25th Percentile £453 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £566 - £488
90th Percentile £616 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -40.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

RHCE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RHCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RHCE trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RHCE
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RHCE.

RHCE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing RHCE over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

RHCE daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RHCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) RHCA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (25.00%) OCA
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) Samba
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Consul
3 1 (25.00%) Nagios
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) SELinux
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) VMware