Hybrid/Remote RHCSA Contract Job Trends

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 - 336
Rank change year-on-year - - +102
Contract jobs citing RHCSA 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% - 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.085% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £558 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £673 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £610 £388 £560
% change year-on-year +57.42% -30.80% -0.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,730 2,991 3,435
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.84% 29.34% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,205 1,990 2,296
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £627
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 101 208
10th Percentile £24.48 £15.25 £18.09
25th Percentile £43.96 £27.28 £35.39
Median hourly rate £52.50 £53.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +12.63% -20.83%
75th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £94.68 £85.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -24.15%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RHCSA and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

RHCSA job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

RHCSA
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RHCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
1 1 (25.00%) Jakarta EE
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) RHCE
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) LFCS
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (25.00%) RHCA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Packer
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase