Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 980 1198
Rank change year-on-year +107 +218 -327
Permanent jobs citing RHCSA 12 6 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.006% 0.015%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% 0.018% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 19
10th Percentile - - £47,050
25th Percentile £41,500 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -25.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,875
90th Percentile - - £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCSA 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 27,370 34,026 41,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.72% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,307 15,226 18,969
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,776 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RHCSA over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RHCSA within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +117 12 £55,000 +10.00% 3
UK excluding London +13 12 £55,000 - 2
South West -9 10 £50,000 - 1
South East - 2 £74,000 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £74,000 -

RHCSA
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:

Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) IaaS
1 1 (8.33%) PaaS
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) LAN
1 5 (41.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Marketing
1 5 (41.67%) Retail
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (41.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Unix Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) CentOS
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Solaris
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) CRM
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Retention
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Service
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
2 5 (41.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Time Management
3 1 (8.33%) Benchmarking
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security
3 1 (8.33%) SOA
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) AWK
2 1 (8.33%) Bourne shell
2 1 (8.33%) Korn
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) RHCE
2 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) PMI Certification
3 5 (41.67%) PMP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) MCSE
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (41.67%) Puppet
2 5 (41.67%) Rancher
3 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (8.33%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) EMC
4 1 (8.33%) Veritas