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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 873 981
Rank change year-on-year +196 +108 +217
Permanent jobs citing RHCSA 7 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.012% 0.006%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.027% 0.044% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 1
10th Percentile £51,875 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

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 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +183 6 £55,000 - 4
London - 5 £55,000 - 2
Work from Home +184 4 £55,000 -25.68% 10
UK excluding London +196 1 £70,000 +27.27% 3
South West +106 1 £70,000 +40.00% 1

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Support
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (14.29%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) RHCE
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
3 3 (42.86%) VMware