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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 465 479
Rank change year-on-year +70 +14 +273
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 20 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.030% 0.065%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.11% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 6
10th Percentile £51,250 - £52,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -8.45% +42.00%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £78,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.36% -1.79% +3.70%

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 6,079 5,410 6,481
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.50% 26.77% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,266 2,661 4,703
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.45% +0.10% +4.55%

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
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RHCE over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

RHCE salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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 (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