Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 966 1136
Rank change year-on-year +85 +170 -315
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 13 15 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.015% 0.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.047% 0.045% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 84
10th Percentile - £56,025 £48,750
25th Percentile £41,500 £65,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £73,500 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year -25.17% +27.92% -4.24%
75th Percentile £57,500 £78,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,125 £82,150 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £73,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -31.97% +40.00% -4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,486 33,056 42,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.70% 32.76% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 17,304 14,953 18,895
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +1.01%

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 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Top 5 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 11 May 2024. 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 +79 13 £55,000 -23.61% 7
UK excluding London +7 11 £50,000 -31.97% 5
South West -24 10 £50,000 -33.33% 1
London +126 2 £73,750 +5.36% 5
South East +6 1 - - 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) LAN
2 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) tcpdump
3 2 (15.38%) Wireshark
4 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (7.69%) SAN
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Marketing
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Senior
2 7 (53.85%) Administrator
3 6 (46.15%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (46.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 6 (46.15%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (38.46%) Senior Manager
5 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Unix Administrator
6 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) LDAP
2 2 (15.38%) Keycloak
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Client/Server
2 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) CentOS
3 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (7.69%) Solaris
5 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Business Continuity
2 7 (53.85%) High Availability
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
3 6 (46.15%) ITIL
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) CRM
4 5 (38.46%) Customer Retention
4 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
4 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (38.46%) Time Management
5 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Cost Control
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) AWK
4 1 (7.69%) Bourne shell
4 1 (7.69%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) RHCSA
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 5 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) PMI Certification
3 5 (38.46%) PMP
3 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Linux+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) KVM
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 7 (53.85%) Puppet
3 5 (38.46%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (38.46%) Rancher
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) NetBackup
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) SaltStack
4 2 (15.38%) Splunk
5 1 (7.69%) EMC
5 1 (7.69%) Veritas