CentOS Contracts in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 480 491
Rank change year-on-year +43 +11 +66
Contract jobs citing CentOS 55 65 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.49% 1.25% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 117
10th Percentile £328 £443 £400
25th Percentile £401 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +2.13%
75th Percentile £594 £539 £656
90th Percentile £672 £590 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £596
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.14% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £22.50 -

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 3,689 5,205 7,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.91% 13.97% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,469 3,431 5,405
10th Percentile £200 £193 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 396 366
10th Percentile £15.31 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.18 £18.41
Median hourly rate £20.38 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% -41.18% +93.18%
75th Percentile £45.19 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.55 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.78 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.88% -41.18% +88.89%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in England

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 5 July 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 +37 26 £550 +8.86% 81
South East +41 11 £550 +5.77% 12
East of England +29 6 £366 - 6
North of England +2 4 £413 -10.76% 13
Midlands +7 3 - - 2
South West +28 2 £488 -11.36% 11
North West +5 2 £425 - 7
West Midlands +4 2 - - 2
Yorkshire 0 2 £383 -17.24% 6
East Midlands - 1 - -
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 13 (23.64%) Apache
2 4 (7.27%) Confluence
2 4 (7.27%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.64%) IIS
3 2 (3.64%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.82%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.82%) JBoss
4 1 (1.82%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) AWS
2 8 (14.55%) Amazon S3
3 5 (9.09%) Azure
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) GCP
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub
6 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.82%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) npm
7 1 (1.82%) OCI
7 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (34.55%) DNS
2 11 (20.00%) Firewall
2 11 (20.00%) SAN
3 10 (18.18%) DHCP
4 7 (12.73%) iSCSI
5 6 (10.91%) VPN
6 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.27%) VLAN
8 3 (5.45%) HTTP
8 3 (5.45%) Network Security
8 3 (5.45%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (3.64%) BGP
9 2 (3.64%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (3.64%) FCoE
9 2 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (3.64%) MPLS
9 2 (3.64%) SSH
9 2 (3.64%) SSL
9 2 (3.64%) VSAN
10 1 (1.82%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) MySQL
2 5 (9.09%) MariaDB
3 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.45%) Big Data
4 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Jenkins
1 14 (25.45%) JIRA
2 11 (20.00%) GitLab
3 9 (16.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (10.91%) Git
5 5 (9.09%) Bitbucket
6 4 (7.27%) MSI
6 4 (7.27%) Robot Framework
6 4 (7.27%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.27%) TeamCity
7 3 (5.45%) Maven
7 3 (5.45%) Vagrant
8 1 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Banking
3 3 (5.45%) Law
3 3 (5.45%) Legal
3 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Administrator
2 8 (14.55%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (14.55%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Senior
3 7 (12.73%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Integration Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) LAMP
1 4 (7.27%) Middleware
1 4 (7.27%) YAML
2 3 (5.45%) .NET
2 3 (5.45%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (5.45%) CSS
2 3 (5.45%) HTML
2 3 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.64%) JSON
3 2 (3.64%) LDAP
3 2 (3.64%) NETCONF
3 2 (3.64%) REST
3 2 (3.64%) RESTCONF
3 2 (3.64%) SOAP
3 2 (3.64%) XML
3 2 (3.64%) YANG
3 2 (3.64%) Zend Framework
4 1 (1.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.73%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.09%) PKI
4 3 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Clustering
5 2 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (52.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (50.91%) Windows
4 26 (47.27%) Ubuntu
5 16 (29.09%) Windows Server
6 8 (14.55%) Unix
7 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (9.09%) Debian
9 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (5.45%) SUSE
11 2 (3.64%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (3.64%) Rocky
12 1 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
12 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) DevOps
2 13 (23.64%) Agile
2 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
3 11 (20.00%) High Availability
4 9 (16.36%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.55%) Configuration Management
5 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (10.91%) Batch Scripting
6 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.91%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (10.91%) ITSM
6 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
6 6 (10.91%) Workflow
7 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 5 (9.09%) Web Development
8 4 (7.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Python
2 15 (27.27%) Bash
3 10 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 9 (16.36%) PowerShell
5 8 (14.55%) PHP
6 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.27%) Perl
7 4 (7.27%) SQL
8 3 (5.45%) C#
9 2 (3.64%) Go
9 2 (3.64%) Java
10 1 (1.82%) C
10 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.27%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) RHCE
5 1 (1.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.45%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) SLA
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) NCSC
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (34.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (32.73%) Active Directory
3 16 (29.09%) Docker
4 9 (16.36%) vSphere
5 6 (10.91%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.45%) vCloud
6 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.45%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (3.64%) VirtualBox
7 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.82%) Firmware
8 1 (1.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (54.55%) Ansible
2 16 (29.09%) Kubernetes
3 15 (27.27%) Terraform
4 13 (23.64%) Puppet
5 7 (12.73%) Nagios
6 6 (10.91%) Progress Chef
7 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
8 4 (7.27%) WMI
9 3 (5.45%) Grafana
9 3 (5.45%) Kibana
9 3 (5.45%) Nessus
9 3 (5.45%) Salt
10 2 (3.64%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (3.64%) Icinga
10 2 (3.64%) Packer
10 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (3.64%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
11 1 (1.82%) SCCM
11 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (54.55%) VMware
2 20 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
4 8 (14.55%) ServiceNow
5 5 (9.09%) Cisco
5 5 (9.09%) Dell
6 4 (7.27%) IBM
6 4 (7.27%) Oracle
7 3 (5.45%) F5
7 3 (5.45%) Hitachi
7 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
7 3 (5.45%) Rackspace
8 2 (3.64%) HP
8 2 (3.64%) New Relic
8 2 (3.64%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.64%) Sophos
8 2 (3.64%) Tenable
8 2 (3.64%) Zend
9 1 (1.82%) Qualys
9 1 (1.82%) Splunk