CentOS Contracts in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CentOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CentOS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 471 509
Rank change year-on-year -6 +38 -56
Contract jobs citing CentOS 68 189 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.34% 2.28% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 142 185
10th Percentile £455 £458 £405
25th Percentile £463 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +9.65% +20.00%
75th Percentile £555 £688 £650
90th Percentile £592 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - £17.72 £23.19
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.10 £35.54
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.37 -
90th Percentile - £19.75 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%

All Operating Systems
England

CentOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,069 8,295 11,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.64% 16.37% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,448 5,916 7,651
10th Percentile £181 £193 £170
25th Percentile £283 £325 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 397 565
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.11 £13.30
25th Percentile £15.06 £17.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%
75th Percentile £59.63 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -42.86% +72.80% +24.57%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +79 44 £510 -21.54% 11
North of England +7 11 £463 -26.00% 7
Yorkshire +22 8 £463 -17.04%
South West +3 5 £750 +36.99% 9
East of England +10 3 - - 4
North West -2 3 - - 6
West Midlands +21 2 - - 6
Midlands +16 2 - - 9
South East +5 2 - - 11
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (41.18%) OpenStack
2 12 (17.65%) nginx
3 6 (8.82%) Apache
4 4 (5.88%) Apache Solr
5 2 (2.94%) Traefik
6 1 (1.47%) Confluence
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.00%) AWS
1 17 (25.00%) Slack
2 10 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (13.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
4 7 (10.29%) Azure
4 7 (10.29%) GCP
4 7 (10.29%) Route 53
5 5 (7.35%) PaaS
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (5.88%) AWS KMS
6 4 (5.88%) WhatsApp
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub
8 2 (2.94%) IaaS
8 2 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) DNS
2 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.35%) Asterisk PBX
3 5 (7.35%) VoIP
4 4 (5.88%) HTTPS
4 4 (5.88%) IPsec
5 3 (4.41%) Firewall
5 3 (4.41%) LAN
5 3 (4.41%) WAN
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.94%) DHCP
6 2 (2.94%) SAN
6 2 (2.94%) VPN
6 2 (2.94%) Wireless
6 2 (2.94%) WLAN
7 1 (1.47%) 3G
7 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.47%) SSH
7 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (13.24%) Couchbase
2 9 (13.24%) MySQL
2 9 (13.24%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.47%) Redis
7 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (42.65%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.76%) Git
2 8 (11.76%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.47%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Finance
3 5 (7.35%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.88%) Legal
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (17.65%) Architect
3 9 (13.24%) Lead
4 8 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (11.76%) Technical Leader
5 7 (10.29%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) VMware Architect
6 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) DevOps Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (4.41%) Network Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
10 2 (2.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.24%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (8.82%) JSON
3 5 (7.35%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (5.88%) CSS
4 4 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (5.88%) HTML
4 4 (5.88%) HTML5
4 4 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.88%) YAML
5 2 (2.94%) cloud-init
6 1 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.47%) Kafka
6 1 (1.47%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.47%) Node.js
6 1 (1.47%) React
6 1 (1.47%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.82%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.88%) PKI
5 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.94%) Clustering
6 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (20.59%) Ubuntu
4 12 (17.65%) Windows
5 9 (13.24%) Windows Server
6 6 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (7.35%) VMS
8 4 (5.88%) Unix
8 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (4.41%) Debian
10 2 (2.94%) Windows 10
10 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.47%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (1.47%) Fedora
11 1 (1.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (54.41%) CI/CD
2 28 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (36.76%) Agile
4 24 (35.29%) DevOps
5 21 (30.88%) Observability
6 15 (22.06%) Configuration Management
7 6 (8.82%) Cost Reduction
7 6 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (8.82%) Microservices
7 6 (8.82%) Migration
7 6 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.35%) Containerisation
8 5 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (5.88%) Application Security
9 4 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (5.88%) OOP
9 4 (5.88%) SDLC
9 4 (5.88%) Software Delivery
9 4 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) Python
2 26 (38.24%) Shell Script
3 19 (27.94%) Bash
4 12 (17.65%) SQL
5 8 (11.76%) PHP
5 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.29%) Go
7 5 (7.35%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.94%) Perl
8 2 (2.94%) Ruby
9 1 (1.47%) C
9 1 (1.47%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) Groovy
9 1 (1.47%) Java
9 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.47%) Korn
9 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) RHCE
5 1 (1.47%) CEH
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.47%) LPIC
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.88%) GDPR
2 4 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 4 (5.88%) NIST
2 4 (5.88%) QA
3 3 (4.41%) NCSC
4 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 20 (29.41%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (16.18%) Docker
3 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.94%) KVM
4 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.47%) Firmware
5 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.47%) VMware Server
5 1 (1.47%) vSphere
5 1 (1.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (58.82%) Ansible
2 30 (44.12%) Prometheus
3 27 (39.71%) Grafana
4 21 (30.88%) Kibana
4 21 (30.88%) logstash
5 19 (27.94%) Terraform
6 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
7 9 (13.24%) Puppet
8 8 (11.76%) ZABBIX
9 7 (10.29%) Packer
10 5 (7.35%) Nagios
11 4 (5.88%) Rancher
12 3 (4.41%) HAProxy
13 2 (2.94%) Consul
13 2 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (2.94%) Graphite
13 2 (2.94%) Istio
13 2 (2.94%) linkerd
13 2 (2.94%) Podman
13 2 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (42.65%) Red Hat
2 16 (23.53%) Amdocs
3 14 (20.59%) VMware
4 9 (13.24%) Cisco
5 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.88%) Google
6 4 (5.88%) Splunk
7 2 (2.94%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.47%) McAfee
8 1 (1.47%) NetApp
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle
8 1 (1.47%) QinetiQ
8 1 (1.47%) Qualys
8 1 (1.47%) Sybase