RHCA Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for RHCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RHCA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.042% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £553 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -3.91% -11.54% +36.84%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 473 232 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.93% 23.27% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 151 177
10th Percentile £325 £250 £320
25th Percentile £417 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.09% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £668 £688 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 23
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.91 £19.75 £13.13
Median hourly rate £62.75 £21.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +198.81% +40.00% -59.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £24.88 £25.83
90th Percentile - £27.20 £26.77
England median hourly rate £47.00 £50.00 £39.96
% change year-on-year -6.00% +25.13% -20.08%

RHCA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

RHCA job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

RHCA
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCA within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
RHCA
England

RHCA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CoreOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware