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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 697 895 946
Rank change year-on-year +198 +51 +209
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 12 17 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.016% 0.016%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% 0.061% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 11
10th Percentile £45,750 - £65,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,500 £67,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -23.61% +25.31%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £78,000
90th Percentile - £71,875 £78,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -38.78% +40.00%

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 27,102 27,804 32,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.91% 26.92% 33.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,972 17,251 14,583
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,546 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RHCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RHCE.

Salary trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RHCE over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Top 7 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 30 May 2025. 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 +153 12 £80,000 +45.45% 5
Work from Home +130 12 £80,000 - 16
UK excluding London +188 7 £50,000 +11.11% 4
London +115 5 £80,000 +10.34%
South East +90 4 £80,000 +207.69% 3
North of England +54 3 £46,500 - 1
North West +11 3 £46,500 - 1

RHCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) InfiniBand
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
1 6 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) CentOS
3 6 (50.00%) Solaris
3 6 (50.00%) Unix
4 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
5 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) LPIC
3 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
1 3 (25.00%) Dovecot
1 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (25.00%) Postfix
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) GPFS
2 2 (16.67%) Lustre
2 2 (16.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Okta
2 3 (25.00%) Ping Identity
2 3 (25.00%) VMware