Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RHCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 729 643 855
Rank change year-on-year -86 +212 +1
Permanent jobs citing RHCSA 31 30 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.061% 0.015%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.17% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 15
10th Percentile £47,750 £42,250 -
25th Percentile £51,313 £51,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +22.22% -35.71%
75th Percentile £70,813 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +27.37% +5.56% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCSA 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 19,120 17,424 25,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.17% 35.38% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,125 7,829 15,435
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,500 £39,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
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%

RHCSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RHCSA job vacancy trend in the UK

RHCSA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCSA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RHCSA

RHCSA
Top 8 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 19 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 -66 30 £60,500 +10.00% 4
London -29 21 £61,250 +11.36% 2
UK excluding London -93 9 £60,500 +27.37% 2
Work from Home -22 8 £57,500 +6.98% 1
South West -76 6 £60,500 -13.57% 1
South East -29 2 - -
North West - 1 £57,500 - 1
North of England - 1 £57,500 - 1

RHCSA
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 (25.81%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Fargate
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 3 (9.68%) WeChat
6 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (38.71%) LAN
2 11 (35.48%) DNS
2 11 (35.48%) TCP/IP
3 9 (29.03%) HTTP
4 8 (25.81%) IPv4
4 8 (25.81%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (22.58%) Firewall
6 3 (9.68%) SAN
6 3 (9.68%) WLAN
7 2 (6.45%) DHCP
7 2 (6.45%) iSCSI
7 2 (6.45%) Network Security
7 2 (6.45%) PBX
7 2 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (6.45%) VPN
8 1 (3.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) MySQL
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) GitLab
2 13 (41.94%) Git
3 9 (29.03%) JIRA
4 8 (25.81%) Bitbucket
4 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Banking
3 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (25.81%) Aerospace
4 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Automotive
5 4 (12.90%) Electronics
5 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing
6 3 (9.68%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
7 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Administrator
1 10 (32.26%) Linux Administrator
1 10 (32.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 10 (32.26%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (25.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Solutions Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) IT Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Principal Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) WebSockets
2 4 (12.90%) boto
3 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Data Centre
2 8 (25.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 4 (12.90%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.68%) Private Cloud
4 3 (9.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (87.10%) Linux
2 12 (38.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (38.71%) Windows
3 8 (25.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.90%) CentOS
5 2 (6.45%) Rocky
5 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.23%) Solaris
6 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) DevOps
1 17 (54.84%) Performance Monitoring
2 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
5 9 (29.03%) Customer-Centricity
5 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (25.81%) Agile
6 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.81%) DevSecOps
6 8 (25.81%) Migration
6 8 (25.81%) Scrum
7 7 (22.58%) Presales
7 7 (22.58%) Programme Management
8 4 (12.90%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (12.90%) Cyber Intelligence
8 4 (12.90%) Line Management
8 4 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (12.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Bash
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) PowerShell
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 8 (25.81%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) C
5 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (41.94%) RHCE
3 12 (38.71%) CCNA
3 12 (38.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (25.81%) AWS Certification
4 8 (25.81%) ISTQB
4 8 (25.81%) OSCP
5 7 (22.58%) CCNP
5 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
5 7 (22.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
6 4 (12.90%) LPIC
6 4 (12.90%) MCSE
6 4 (12.90%) VCAP
7 3 (9.68%) Degree
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (6.45%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (3.23%) CRISC
9 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) COBIT
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (83.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (38.71%) vSphere
3 11 (35.48%) Docker
4 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
5 8 (25.81%) Squid
5 8 (25.81%) VMware NSX
6 2 (6.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.45%) KVM
6 2 (6.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Terraform
2 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
3 10 (32.26%) Ansible
3 10 (32.26%) Nagios
4 9 (29.03%) ZABBIX
5 8 (25.81%) Packer
6 2 (6.45%) Puppet
7 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) VMware
2 21 (67.74%) Red Hat
3 15 (48.39%) Microsoft
4 9 (29.03%) Oracle
4 9 (29.03%) SolarWinds
5 8 (25.81%) Splunk
6 4 (12.90%) Cisco
7 3 (9.68%) Citrix
8 2 (6.45%) Dell
8 2 (6.45%) D-Link