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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 885 968
Rank change year-on-year +195 +83 +241
Permanent jobs citing RHCSA 15 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.012% 0.009%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.055% 0.044% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 2
10th Percentile £52,125 - £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £61,250 - £68,500
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 27,209 27,402 32,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.33% 27.67% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,307 17,265 14,877
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,277
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +150 14 £55,000 - 4
Work from Home +145 11 £55,000 -25.68% 9
UK excluding London +173 7 £70,000 +27.27% 3
South West +115 7 £70,000 +40.00%
London - 7 £55,000 - 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 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) HTTP
2 3 (20.00%) LAN
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Administrator
1 11 (73.33%) Systems Administrator
2 6 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (26.67%) Linux Support
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Systems Support
6 1 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) e-Learning
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Customer-Centricity
2 7 (46.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) High Availability
3 6 (40.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) SDLC
4 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (6.67%) User Experience
4 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) CCNP
2 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) RHCE
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Nagios
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (46.67%) SolarWinds
3 6 (40.00%) Cisco
4 4 (26.67%) VMware