CentOS Contracts in the North West

CentOS Linux
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 131 156
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -23
Contract jobs citing CentOS 3 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.84% 0.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.84% 4.91% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 22 19
10th Percentile - £341 £575
25th Percentile - £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +2.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £650 £644
90th Percentile - £688 £690
England median daily rate £510 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -18.40% +11.11% +18.42%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 356 550 734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.82% 17.12% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 380 518
10th Percentile £168 £173 £150
25th Percentile £284 £313 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +17.65%
75th Percentile £582 £576 £585
90th Percentile £825 £651 £650
England median daily rate £460 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.68% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 48 42
10th Percentile - £14.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +3.93%
75th Percentile £18.19 £44.56 £27.81
90th Percentile £41.18 £49.52 £43.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Manchester -3 2 - - 5
Cheshire - 1 - -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (66.67%) nginx
1 2 (66.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Audit Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Consul
1 2 (66.67%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (66.67%) Graphite
1 2 (66.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) linkerd
1 2 (66.67%) Packer
1 2 (66.67%) Podman
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat