CentOS Contracts in the East of England

CentOS Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 105 120
Rank change year-on-year +26 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.21% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.15% 1.32% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.00%
England median daily rate £638 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +27.50% -20.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.47
England median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.74
% change year-on-year - +20.10% -72.87%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 174 227 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.37% 11.92% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 127 323
10th Percentile £178 £175 £162
25th Percentile £210 £235 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £569 £650 £700
England median daily rate £475 £465 £513
% change year-on-year +2.15% -9.27% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 46 63
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.65 -
25th Percentile £17.79 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £45.91 £32.75 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year +40.20% +87.44% -14.78%
75th Percentile £65.19 £65.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £83.38 £66.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.09 £22.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +9.50% -41.33% +70.45%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the East of England

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the East of England

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the East of England

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £250 - 2
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware