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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 390 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 1 8 0
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.006% 0.062% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.025% 0.21% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £67,500 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -18.52%

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 4,041 3,741 8,200
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.27% 28.93% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,663 2,471 5,931
10th Percentile £31,015 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,799 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%

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 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware