CentOS Contracts in the West Midlands

CentOS Linux
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 127 173
Rank change year-on-year +20 +46 -50
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.10% 0.50% 0.084%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.82% 2.91% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £491 £310
25th Percentile - £569 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £700 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% +22.14%
75th Percentile - - £425
90th Percentile - £738 £440
England median daily rate £505 £625 £573
% change year-on-year -19.16% +9.17% +20.53%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 244 413 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.68% 17.35% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 277 449
10th Percentile £185 £171 £150
25th Percentile £251 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £505 £405
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% +24.69% +11.72%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £519
90th Percentile £698 £694 £600
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 36
10th Percentile £14.83 £14.71 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £13.84
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £48.13 £25.75 £23.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the West Midlands

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the West Midlands

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - - 3
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Audit Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware