Rocky Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Rocky Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.045% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £600 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -25.93%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Rocky 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 285 223 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.81% 21.42% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 130 144
10th Percentile £163 £179 £194
25th Percentile £191 £225 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £572 £575
90th Percentile £675 £575 £650
England median daily rate £459 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.18% -2.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 35 44
10th Percentile £16.24 £15.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.77 £17.14 £15.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.66 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +112.90% -58.90% +223.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.55 £66.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £23.80
% change year-on-year +72.23% -20.71% -49.09%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Rocky job vacancy trend in the East of England

Rocky
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 Rocky within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £600 - 1
Rocky
England

Rocky
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Backup Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware