CentOS Contract Job Trends in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring CentOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 389 481
Rank change year-on-year -113 +92 +64
Contract jobs citing CentOS 45 106 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.37% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.08% 2.64% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 52 47
10th Percentile £425 £350 £381
25th Percentile £508 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -12.31%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £600
90th Percentile £660 £750 £653
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £69.91 -
25th Percentile - £85.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +397.78% -62.50%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +397.78% -63.41%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,158 4,010 5,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.08% 14.01% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,740 2,533 3,908
10th Percentile £176 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £601
90th Percentile £671 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 139 298
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.65 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.81% +71.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63.50 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.80 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year -38.66% +27.13% +29.00%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in England

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CentOS

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in England over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in England

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CentOS

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London -11 14 £425 -22.73% 6
South West -8 8 £550 +11.39% 8
South East -44 5 £503 -12.61% 19
West Midlands -39 4 £540 +45.95% 9
Yorkshire -47 4 £525 -27.59% 10
Midlands -53 4 £540 +45.95% 17
North of England -80 4 £525 -27.59% 18
East of England - 4 £488 - 13
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (6.67%) Apache
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (4.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.44%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) AWS
2 10 (22.22%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) GCP
4 6 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (11.11%) GitHub
5 5 (11.11%) npm
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.11%) DNS
2 6 (13.33%) DHCP
2 6 (13.33%) Firewall
3 5 (11.11%) AMQP
4 4 (8.89%) DKIM
4 4 (8.89%) DMARC
4 4 (8.89%) SMTP
4 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.67%) SAN
5 3 (6.67%) Skype
6 2 (4.44%) HTTP
6 2 (4.44%) NAS
6 2 (4.44%) SSL
6 2 (4.44%) VLAN
7 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.22%) RTP
7 1 (2.22%) VoIP
7 1 (2.22%) VPN
7 1 (2.22%) VSAN
7 1 (2.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 6 (13.33%) RDBMS
1 6 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.22%) Impala
4 1 (2.22%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.33%) GitLab
3 5 (11.11%) Git
3 5 (11.11%) Maven
4 4 (8.89%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Finance
4 5 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Billing
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Lead
2 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Administrator
4 4 (8.89%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Applications Support
4 4 (8.89%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Linux Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) Kafka
1 7 (15.56%) Keycloak
2 6 (13.33%) cloud-init
3 5 (11.11%) LDAP
4 4 (8.89%) AWS CDK
4 4 (8.89%) Node.js
4 4 (8.89%) React
5 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.67%) CSS
5 3 (6.67%) Electron
5 3 (6.67%) HTML
5 3 (6.67%) JNI
5 3 (6.67%) YAML
6 2 (4.44%) Middleware
7 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.22%) Django
7 1 (2.22%) FreeSWITCH
7 1 (2.22%) Loki
7 1 (2.22%) OpenID
7 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) PKI
2 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.33%) Hedge funds
3 5 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.67%) SCADA
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.22%) CUDA
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (100.00%) Linux
2 30 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (44.44%) Ubuntu
4 13 (28.89%) Unix
5 12 (26.67%) Windows
5 12 (26.67%) Windows Server
6 4 (8.89%) Mac OS
7 3 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
7 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (31.11%) DevOps
4 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (24.44%) Containerisation
5 11 (24.44%) High Availability
6 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (17.78%) Microservices
7 8 (17.78%) Task Automation
8 7 (15.56%) Load Balancing
8 7 (15.56%) Observability
9 6 (13.33%) Incident Response
9 6 (13.33%) ITIL
9 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.11%) Configuration Management
10 5 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (11.11%) RBAC
10 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) Python
2 22 (48.89%) Bash
3 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 10 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 9 (20.00%) Java
5 8 (17.78%) Go
5 8 (17.78%) Perl
6 4 (8.89%) C
6 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.89%) SQL
7 3 (6.67%) Ruby
8 1 (2.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (22.22%) RHCE
4 7 (15.56%) DV Cleared
5 5 (11.11%) RHCSA
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.67%) Degree
6 3 (6.67%) MCSE
6 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) NCSC
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.11%) KVM
4 4 (8.89%) Postfix
5 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.44%) vSphere
6 1 (2.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (2.22%) Ceph
6 1 (2.22%) Firmware
6 1 (2.22%) HDFS
6 1 (2.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 25 (55.56%) Ansible
2 17 (37.78%) Terraform
3 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 9 (20.00%) Grafana
5 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
5 7 (15.56%) Puppet
6 6 (13.33%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (13.33%) Packer
7 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
8 3 (6.67%) WSUS
9 2 (4.44%) Nagios
9 2 (4.44%) Nessus
9 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (2.22%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (2.22%) Argo
10 1 (2.22%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
10 1 (2.22%) Kibana
10 1 (2.22%) SCCM
10 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (46.67%) Red Hat
2 13 (28.89%) Oracle
3 10 (22.22%) VMware
4 9 (20.00%) Splunk
5 6 (13.33%) Okta
6 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.44%) Cisco
8 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.22%) Dell
8 1 (2.22%) Dialogic
8 1 (2.22%) EMC
8 1 (2.22%) Foundry
8 1 (2.22%) HP
8 1 (2.22%) Metaswitch
8 1 (2.22%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.22%) Qualys
8 1 (2.22%) Rapid7
8 1 (2.22%) Remedy
8 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.22%) Tanium