CentOS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

CentOS Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring CentOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing CentOS 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.097% 0.20% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.74% 1.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £638 £510
% change year-on-year -17.65% +25.00% -18.40%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 135 73 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.04% 14.26% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 53 95
10th Percentile £131 £173 £122
25th Percentile £163 £200 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £390 £225
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +73.33% -35.71%
75th Percentile £430 £488 £525
90th Percentile £531 £535 £583
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 28
10th Percentile £13.01 £14.29 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.09 £14.27
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.77 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year +18.65% +8.16% -0.86%
75th Percentile £25.58 £23.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £24.59 £23.73
England median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.67% +19.40% -27.59%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CentOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CentOS

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 April 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 £530 - 2
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft