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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 458 467
Rank change year-on-year +88 +9 +193
Permanent jobs citing RHCE 12 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.079% 0.047% 0.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 5
10th Percentile £51,250 £69,250 £51,850
25th Percentile £55,625 £79,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +18.06% +44.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 - £78,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -29.41% +30.77% -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 5,269 5,123 5,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.53% 26.88% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,444 2,613 4,277
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,250 £45,847
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +0.88%

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

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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 3 December 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) InfiniBand
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Dutch Language
2 1 (8.33%) German Language
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Instructor
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Instructor
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Trainer
3 1 (8.33%) Trainer
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LAMP
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) CentOS
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (16.67%) Debian
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Unix
6 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (8.33%) Data Management
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) RHCSA
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (8.33%) LPIC
4 1 (8.33%) MCSE
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Dovecot
2 1 (8.33%) GPFS
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) Lustre
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
2 1 (8.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Okta
4 1 (8.33%) Ping Identity