CentOS Contracts in the Midlands

CentOS Linux
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 149 197
Rank change year-on-year +22 +48 -45
Contract jobs citing CentOS 5 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.41% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.18% 2.23% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £298 £420 £344
25th Percentile £299 £491 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £700 £455
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +53.85% +33.82%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - £730 £498
England median daily rate £500 £625 £556
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.36% +17.11%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 423 629 999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.40% 18.39% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 428 665
10th Percentile £146 £158 £133
25th Percentile £200 £250 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £495
90th Percentile £605 £688 £575
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 72
10th Percentile £12.98 £11.80 £13.26
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.82
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +3.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.98 £22.38
90th Percentile - £30.61 £24.45
England median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.13% +70.45% +23.87%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the Midlands

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the Midlands

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +13 5 £300 -57.14% 3
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) Remote Desktop
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Server Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Audit Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Control
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (80.00%) Patch Management
1 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Server
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat