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 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 384 482
Rank change year-on-year -139 +98 0
Contract jobs citing CentOS 50 98 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.38% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.18% 2.67% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 48 39
10th Percentile £463 £394 £456
25th Percentile £500 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £588
90th Percentile £628 £750 £612
UK median daily rate £537 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -14.08% +25.00% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £69.91 -
25th Percentile - £85.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +397.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +397.78% +12.50%

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 4,240 3,667 5,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.99% 14.23% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,825 2,374 3,626
10th Percentile £180 £200 £178
25th Percentile £263 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 121 353
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £18.51 £16.54
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.90% +64.00% -6.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.25 £62.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.97% +16.00% -5.62%

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 February 2026.

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 February 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
London -38 10 £475 -19.83% 4
Yorkshire -66 9 £531 -26.76% 1
North of England -79 9 £531 -26.76% 1
South West -20 8 £588 - 1
East of England - 8 £478 - 1
South East -61 6 £505 -12.17% 8
West Midlands -59 4 £540 +45.95% 3
Midlands -61 4 £540 +45.95% 4
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 (6.00%) Apache
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (4.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) AWS
2 12 (24.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) GCP
4 7 (14.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (8.00%) npm
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.00%) GitHub
6 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.00%) IaaS
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.00%) PaaS
8 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) DNS
2 4 (8.00%) AMQP
2 4 (8.00%) DKIM
2 4 (8.00%) DMARC
2 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) SMTP
3 3 (6.00%) DHCP
3 3 (6.00%) Skype
4 2 (4.00%) HTTP
4 2 (4.00%) SSL
4 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.00%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (2.00%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.00%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.00%) RTP
5 1 (2.00%) SAN
5 1 (2.00%) VLAN
5 1 (2.00%) VoIP
5 1 (2.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.00%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
1 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) Maven
4 3 (6.00%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.00%) GoCD
5 1 (2.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (32.00%) Documentation Skills
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Lead
2 10 (20.00%) Administrator
3 7 (14.00%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Linux Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Unix Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) LDAP
2 10 (20.00%) Middleware
3 8 (16.00%) YAML
4 4 (8.00%) Kafka
4 4 (8.00%) Keycloak
4 4 (8.00%) Node.js
4 4 (8.00%) React
5 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (6.00%) cloud-init
5 3 (6.00%) CSS
5 3 (6.00%) Electron
5 3 (6.00%) HTML
5 3 (6.00%) JNI
6 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.00%) Django
6 1 (2.00%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (2.00%) Loki
6 1 (2.00%) OpenID
6 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.00%) PKI
3 6 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.00%) Hedge funds
5 3 (6.00%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (6.00%) SCADA
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.00%) CUDA
7 1 (2.00%) Grid Computing
7 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 38 (76.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (46.00%) Ubuntu
4 11 (22.00%) Unix
5 7 (14.00%) Windows
5 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.00%) Rocky
7 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (34.00%) DevOps
2 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (20.00%) High Availability
4 10 (20.00%) RBAC
5 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (16.00%) ITSM
6 8 (16.00%) Task Automation
7 7 (14.00%) Information Management
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 7 (14.00%) Load Balancing
7 7 (14.00%) Microservices
8 5 (10.00%) Incident Response
8 5 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 14 (28.00%) Bash
3 13 (26.00%) Perl
3 13 (26.00%) Shell Script
4 8 (16.00%) Java
4 8 (16.00%) Ruby
5 7 (14.00%) MATLAB
6 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.00%) Go
7 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (6.00%) C
8 3 (6.00%) SQL
9 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (28.00%) RHCE
4 8 (16.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) MCSE
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.00%) RHCSA
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.00%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) SLA
2 4 (8.00%) NCSC
3 1 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.00%) Docker
3 6 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.00%) Postfix
5 4 (8.00%) KVM
6 2 (4.00%) vSphere
7 1 (2.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (2.00%) Ceph
7 1 (2.00%) Firmware
7 1 (2.00%) GPFS
7 1 (2.00%) HDFS
7 1 (2.00%) Lustre
7 1 (2.00%) QEMU
7 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (70.00%) Ansible
2 14 (28.00%) Terraform
3 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (22.00%) Puppet
5 8 (16.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (14.00%) Check_MK
6 7 (14.00%) Podman
7 6 (12.00%) Grafana
8 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
9 3 (6.00%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (6.00%) Packer
9 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
9 3 (6.00%) WSUS
10 2 (4.00%) HAProxy
10 2 (4.00%) Nagios
11 1 (2.00%) FreeIPA
11 1 (2.00%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (2.00%) Kibana
11 1 (2.00%) SCOM
11 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (56.00%) Red Hat
2 15 (30.00%) VMware
3 10 (20.00%) Oracle
4 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (12.00%) Splunk
6 3 (6.00%) Okta
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco
7 1 (2.00%) Citrix
7 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
7 1 (2.00%) Dell
7 1 (2.00%) Dialogic
7 1 (2.00%) Foundry
7 1 (2.00%) HP
7 1 (2.00%) Metaswitch
7 1 (2.00%) NVIDIA