CentOS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

CentOS Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring CentOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing CentOS 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.25% - 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.53% - 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £414 - £448
25th Percentile £434 - £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £543
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.20%
75th Percentile £559 - £601
90th Percentile £591 - £623
England median daily rate £550 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.44% -11.92%

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 261 189 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.26% 16.64% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 69 185
10th Percentile £163 £211 £144
25th Percentile £190 £225 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -14.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £475 £456 £575
90th Percentile £575 £580 £708
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 21 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £47.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £55.65 £14.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +348.28% -34.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £64.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.50 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £56.20 £32.50
% change year-on-year -55.25% +72.92% +30.00%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in the East of England

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the East of England

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CentOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CentOS

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 20 December 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
Suffolk - 3 £400 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £575 -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) RTP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Dialogic
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Metaswitch
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) VMware