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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 874 862
Rank change year-on-year +189 -12 +392
Permanent jobs citing RHCSA 30 15 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.015% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.058% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 5
10th Percentile £42,250 - £55,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -35.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 -
% change year-on-year +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 25,029 26,043 27,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.29% 26.47% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,598 15,240 13,971
10th Percentile £31,463 £29,971 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,600 £71,250 £76,588
90th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +8.25%

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 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for RHCSA in the UK

RHCSA
Top 9 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 20 July 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 +132 28 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Work from Home - 24 £53,750 - 7
UK excluding London +135 22 £47,500 +5.56% 9
South West +101 19 £70,000 +40.00% 3
London - 7 £55,000 - 2
Midlands +64 1 £52,500 +31.25%
South East - 1 £33,750 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
Scotland - 1 £42,500 - 2

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 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (10.00%) HTTP
2 3 (10.00%) LAN
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) VLAN
3 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (83.33%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Administrator
1 23 (76.67%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Linux Support
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Support
6 1 (3.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Service Desk Support
6 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) WebSockets
2 2 (6.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (60.00%) e-Learning
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (36.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.67%) CentOS
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) High Availability
1 18 (60.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 7 (23.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (6.67%) ITIL
4 2 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (3.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (3.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (3.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (3.33%) SDLC
5 1 (3.33%) User Experience
5 1 (3.33%) Visualisation
5 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Bash
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 20 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (60.00%) CCNP
2 18 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) RHCE
4 1 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Nagios
2 5 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (3.33%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (96.67%) Red Hat
2 18 (60.00%) Cisco
3 8 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 8 (26.67%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix