Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 760 664 859
Rank change year-on-year -96 +195 -1
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 14 17 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.035% 0.018%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.073% 0.097% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 15
10th Percentile - £46,275 -
25th Percentile £47,750 £48,438 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +45.45% -23.61%
75th Percentile £73,250 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £51,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +18.05% +13.89% -37.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,213 17,595 25,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 35.73% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,057 7,824 16,255
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RHCE job vacancy trend in the UK

RHCE
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCE

RHCE
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 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
England -70 14 £60,500 -24.38% 6
UK excluding London -73 8 £60,500 +18.05% 8
London -26 6 £63,750 -20.31%
South West - 5 £60,500 - 3
Work from Home -24 2 £57,500 -28.13% 2
South East -25 2 - -
North West -18 1 £57,500 +19.17% 3
North of England -31 1 £57,500 +19.17% 3

RHCE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (57.14%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
2 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudTrail
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (35.71%) Serverless
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) Datadog
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) IPv4
1 8 (57.14%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (28.57%) Firewall
3 3 (21.43%) SAN
3 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 2 (14.29%) Network Security
4 2 (14.29%) PBX
4 2 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (14.29%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) NAS
5 1 (7.14%) SSL
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
3 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
1 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (57.14%) Bitbucket
2 8 (57.14%) GitLab
2 8 (57.14%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Aerospace
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Automotive
3 4 (28.57%) Electronics
3 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
4 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (35.71%) CentOS
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (7.14%) Solaris
6 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 8 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 8 (57.14%) Migration
3 8 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
3 8 (57.14%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (28.57%) Cyber Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (28.57%) Programme Management
4 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Bash
2 11 (78.57%) PowerShell
2 11 (78.57%) Python
3 8 (57.14%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) C
4 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) RHCSA
2 9 (64.29%) AWS Certification
3 8 (57.14%) CCNA
3 8 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (57.14%) ISTQB
3 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (57.14%) OSCP
4 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
4 8 (57.14%) Squid
4 8 (57.14%) VMware NSX
4 8 (57.14%) vSphere
5 3 (21.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
6 2 (14.29%) KVM
6 2 (14.29%) Samba
7 1 (7.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Ansible
1 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (71.43%) Terraform
3 9 (64.29%) ZABBIX
4 8 (57.14%) Packer
5 2 (14.29%) Puppet
6 1 (7.14%) Nagios
6 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Red Hat
2 11 (78.57%) VMware
3 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 9 (64.29%) Oracle
5 8 (57.14%) Splunk
6 2 (14.29%) Dell
6 2 (14.29%) D-Link
7 1 (7.14%) Cisco
7 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
7 1 (7.14%) Juniper