RHCE Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - 194
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.025% - 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.090% - 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 - £55,000
75th Percentile £35,625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £33,750 - £55,000

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

RHCE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,114 1,481 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.79% 43.48% 43.81%
Number of salaries quoted 431 497 1,114
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,375 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +0.96%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RHCE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

RHCE job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RHCE
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RHCE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RHCE

RHCE
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire - 1 £33,750 -
RHCE
South East

RHCE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware