RHCT Contracts

Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 674 835
Rank change year-on-year +101 +161 -107
Contract jobs citing RHCT 6 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.018% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.047% 0.065% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile - £446 £515
25th Percentile £313 £497 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £338 £591 £526
90th Percentile - £619 £529
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £550 -
% change year-on-year -40.91% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

RHCT 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 12,878 15,332 19,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.19% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 10,240 12,718
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 747 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.57
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.41 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%

RHCT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RHCT in the UK

RHCT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RHCT in the UK

RHCT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RHCT in the UK

RHCT
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RHCT within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +45 6 £325 -40.91% 1
Scotland +37 6 £325 -40.91% 1

RHCT
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) CentOS
1 6 (100.00%) Debian
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) MCSA
1 6 (100.00%) MCSE
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) KVM
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) VMware