Rocky Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Rocky Linux
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.07% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £513 - -

All Operating Systems
Cambridge

Rocky 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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 21 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 18.72% 11.86% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile £188 £181 -
25th Percentile £213 £190 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £363
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -31.03% +43.85%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £538
90th Percentile £519 £619 £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £423 £238 £363
% change year-on-year +77.89% -34.48% -19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £53.55 £51.25
Median hourly rate £34.13 £54.70 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.61% -4.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £55.85 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £34.13 £13.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +162.54% -77.39% +296.55%

Rocky
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gerrit
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Tricentis qTest
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jolokia
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (50.00%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Artefact Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Coverity
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce