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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 501 493
Rank change year-on-year +92 -8 +338
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 20 6 19
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.026% 0.076%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.35% 0.094% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 10
10th Percentile £51,250 - £54,475
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -9.72% +44.00%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £78,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - £82,150
UK median annual salary £80,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -21.43% +7.69%

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 5,691 6,369 6,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.04% 27.29% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,327 3,096 4,998
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -3.45% +5.45%

RHCE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RHCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RHCE trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RHCE
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing RHCE

RHCE
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing RHCE over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

RHCE salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RHCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DHCP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) InfiniBand
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Dutch Language
2 1 (5.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Administrator
1 7 (35.00%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Instructor
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Instructor
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Trainer
5 1 (5.00%) Trainer
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) LAMP
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) CentOS
3 8 (40.00%) Unix
4 7 (35.00%) Solaris
5 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (10.00%) Debian
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (15.00%) Data Management
3 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (15.00%) Project Planning
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Perl
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
1 4 (20.00%) RHCSA
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.00%) LPIC
2 3 (15.00%) MCSE
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) GPFS
1 3 (15.00%) Lustre
1 3 (15.00%) NFS
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Dovecot
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Okta
4 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity