CentOS Contracts in Central London

CentOS Linux
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 129 163
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 +24
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.71% 1.28% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £728 £440 £550
25th Percentile £731 £463 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year +49.93% -21.53% +13.84%
75th Percentile £769 £537 £675
90th Percentile £773 £558 -
London median daily rate £560 £510 £650
% change year-on-year +9.80% -21.54% +16.07%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 280 312 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.02% 12.76% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 224 412
10th Percentile £243 £182 £160
25th Percentile £350 £280 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%
75th Percentile £639 £642 £650
90th Percentile £710 £725 £730
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £35.38 £19.86 £22.60
25th Percentile £56.56 £21.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £146.56 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £171.13 £25.70 £64.25
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in Central London

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in Central London

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in Central London

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +7 2 £750 +50.00%
CentOS
London

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Hitachi