CentOS Contract Job Trends in Central London

CentOS Linux
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring CentOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 127 129
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +34
Contract jobs citing CentOS 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.041% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.63% 0.71% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £728 £440
25th Percentile £513 £731 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +49.93% -21.53%
75th Percentile £538 £769 £537
90th Percentile - £773 £558
London median daily rate £475 £560 £510
% change year-on-year -15.18% +9.80% -21.54%

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 160 280 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.50% 14.02% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 202 224
10th Percentile £186 £243 £182
25th Percentile £244 £350 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -13.88%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £642
90th Percentile £748 £710 £725
London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £35.38 £19.86
25th Percentile £19.64 £56.56 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £98.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.85% +338.89% -35.71%
75th Percentile £22.72 £146.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £23.31 £171.13 £25.70
London median hourly rate £22.27 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.71% +12.09% -41.08%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in Central London

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CentOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CentOS

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CentOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CentOS

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 2026. 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 -16 1 £525 -30.00% 1
CentOS
London

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware