CentOS Contracts with Work from Home Options

CentOS Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring CentOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CentOS over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 396 490
Rank change year-on-year +73 +94 -85
Contract jobs citing CentOS 20 49 139
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.27% 1.52% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 85
10th Percentile £306 £404 £405
25th Percentile £350 £497 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £561 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +3.94% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £706 £650
90th Percentile £540 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +5.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.24
25th Percentile - - £22.59
Median hourly rate - - £26.38
75th Percentile - - £31.34
90th Percentile - - £32.41
UK median hourly rate £22.50 - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.51%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

CentOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,578 3,222 5,305
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.69% 13.50% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 2,259 3,788
10th Percentile £228 £243 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +1.94% +9.57%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £620
90th Percentile £683 £731 £692
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 112 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.10 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.94 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.79 £44.11 £22.00
% change year-on-year -48.33% +100.50% +25.71%

CentOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CentOS trend for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CentOS.

CentOS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CentOS over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

CentOS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CentOS.

CentOS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (20.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (20.00%) nginx
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) SAS
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 4 (20.00%) HTTPS
2 4 (20.00%) IPsec
2 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 2 (10.00%) DHCP
5 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (5.00%) Skype
5 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) MariaDB
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Audit Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.00%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Server Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) JSON
1 4 (20.00%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (20.00%) YAML
2 2 (10.00%) CodeIgniter
2 2 (10.00%) Laravel
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) HTML5
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Windows
4 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (10.00%) Debian
6 2 (10.00%) Rocky
7 1 (5.00%) Unix
7 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Information Security
4 4 (20.00%) Microservices
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (20.00%) SDLC
4 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (10.00%) Security Hardening
6 2 (10.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PHP
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CEH
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 4 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
3 4 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) SELinux
4 2 (10.00%) yum
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (5.00%) logstash
5 1 (5.00%) Nagios
5 1 (5.00%) Opsview
5 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Qualys
5 1 (5.00%) Remedy
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow