Rocky Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Rocky skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rocky over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 714 -
Rank change year-on-year +123 - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.003% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.052% 0.021% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £606 - -
25th Percentile £616 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £666 - -
90th Percentile £679 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 - -

All Operating Systems
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,775 9,701 13,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.33% 16.25% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 6,834 9,105
10th Percentile £184 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 417 631
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £39.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.59% +73.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +50.00% +17.65%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rocky within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England - 2 £638 - 6
UK excluding London +64 1 £675 - 6
North of England - 1 £675 -
Work from Home - 1 - - 4
London - 1 £600 -
Yorkshire - 1 £675 -

Rocky
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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Fedora
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Graylog
1 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Rsyslog
1 1 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat