Hybrid/Remote RHCE Job Trends

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 412 518
Rank change year-on-year -43 +106 +35
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 2 18 3
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% 0.11% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% 0.32% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 1
10th Percentile - £46,450 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +23.08% -11.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - £86,000 -
UK median annual salary £60,500 £80,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.38% +45.45% -23.61%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

RHCE 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,533 5,554 7,262
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.69% 33.75% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,040 2,461 4,417
10th Percentile £33,340 £29,250 £33,650
25th Percentile £46,984 £41,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RHCE and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

RHCE job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

RHCE
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RHCE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RHCE

RHCE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle