CentOS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

CentOS Linux
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring CentOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 91 118
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 +2
Contract jobs citing CentOS 1 20 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.068% 1.35% 0.058%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.46% 10.87% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £376 -
25th Percentile - £378 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £380 £315
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +20.63% -33.68%
75th Percentile - £390 £323
90th Percentile - £396 -
South East median daily rate £503 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -12.61% -4.17% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 218 184 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.74% 12.44% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 118 236
10th Percentile £204 £200 £148
25th Percentile £275 £256 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £419 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +4.69% -20.00%
75th Percentile £518 £608 £578
90th Percentile £575 £678 £623
South East median daily rate £434 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -0.91% +9.38% -16.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 14
10th Percentile £17.58 - £31.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £55.28
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +2.65% +0.51%
75th Percentile £24.33 £57.62 £64.06
90th Percentile £81.20 - £68.22
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.69% +7.05% +197.30%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CentOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

CentOS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CentOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CentOS

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CentOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CentOS

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Bracknell - 1 £500 -
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development