Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RHCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 669 784
Rank change year-on-year +112 +115 -110
Contract jobs citing RHCE 14 18 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.032% 0.069%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.12% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 44
10th Percentile - £411 £363
25th Percentile £340 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £475 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% -28.30% +32.50%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £800
90th Percentile £606 £581 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -28.18% +12.82% -11.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,818 15,477 18,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.10% 27.18% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 10,343 12,521
10th Percentile £308 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 768 763
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.00 £19.82
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%

RHCE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RHCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RHCE.

Daily rate trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RHCE over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RHCE.

Hourly rate trend for RHCE in the UK

RHCE
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCE within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +61 12 £395 -28.18% 10
England +110 9 £550 +15.79% 14
Scotland +36 5 £340 -38.18% 2
Work from Home +106 3 £600 +26.32% 6
South East - 3 £450 - 3
London +93 2 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £625 - 2
East of England - 1 - -
South West - 1 £550 - 1
North of England - 1 £625 - 4

RHCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) IPv4
3 1 (7.14%) OSPF
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Support
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Support Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Unix Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Server Support
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Clustering
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
4 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (50.00%) Solaris
4 3 (21.43%) Unix
5 1 (7.14%) CentOS
5 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (7.14%) Windows
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Compliance Management
1 6 (42.86%) High Availability
2 5 (35.71%) Customer Service
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
4 2 (14.29%) Budgeting
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security
4 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (14.29%) Server Hardening
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
4 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
4 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) AWK
3 2 (14.29%) Bourne shell
3 2 (14.29%) Korn
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) RHCSA
4 2 (14.29%) CEH
4 2 (14.29%) CISM
4 2 (14.29%) CISSP
4 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) SANS
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.14%) GIAC
5 1 (7.14%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (7.14%) LPIC
5 1 (7.14%) MCSE
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) KVM
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (14.29%) yum
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) AlienVault
3 2 (14.29%) ArcSight
3 2 (14.29%) Carbon Black
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Dell
3 2 (14.29%) EMC
3 2 (14.29%) LogRhythm
3 2 (14.29%) Symantec
3 2 (14.29%) Veritas
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle