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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 382 491
Rank change year-on-year -118 +109 +4
Contract jobs citing CentOS 51 105 69
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.23% 2.80% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 39
10th Percentile £463 £380 £451
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £594
90th Percentile £642 £750 £606
UK median daily rate £537 £638 £525
% change year-on-year -15.76% +21.43% -19.23%
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% -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 4,159 3,756 5,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.83% 14.09% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,786 2,364 3,804
10th Percentile £173 £200 £179
25th Percentile £263 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -8.74%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £474
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.26% -8.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 125 335
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.54 £53.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.59% +76.67% +16.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -27.54% +15.00% +20.00%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -33 12 £525 -4.55% 7
Yorkshire -50 9 £531 -26.76%
North of England -73 9 £531 -26.76% 1
East of England - 9 £485 - 3
South West -12 8 £588 -12.15% 10
Midlands -51 4 £540 +45.95% 2
West Midlands -52 4 £540 +45.95% 2
South East -53 4 £500 -13.04% 5
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 (5.88%) Apache
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.92%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) AWS
2 11 (21.57%) Azure
3 9 (17.65%) GCP
4 6 (11.76%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.84%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub
5 4 (7.84%) npm
5 4 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.92%) IaaS
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) DNS
2 5 (9.80%) DHCP
2 5 (9.80%) Firewall
3 4 (7.84%) AMQP
3 4 (7.84%) DKIM
3 4 (7.84%) DMARC
3 4 (7.84%) SMTP
3 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.88%) SAN
4 3 (5.88%) Skype
5 2 (3.92%) HTTP
5 2 (3.92%) SSL
5 2 (3.92%) VLAN
6 1 (1.96%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.96%) NAS
6 1 (1.96%) RTP
6 1 (1.96%) VoIP
6 1 (1.96%) VPN
6 1 (1.96%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) RDBMS
1 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.96%) Impala
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.57%) Git
2 11 (21.57%) GitLab
3 4 (7.84%) Maven
3 4 (7.84%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.96%) GoCD
4 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (31.37%) Documentation Skills
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Aerospace
4 5 (9.80%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.96%) Billing
5 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Lead
2 11 (21.57%) Administrator
3 7 (13.73%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (9.80%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Applications Support
5 4 (7.84%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Architect
5 4 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Lead DevOps
5 4 (7.84%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Linux Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Unix Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) LDAP
2 10 (19.61%) Middleware
3 8 (15.69%) YAML
4 5 (9.80%) Kafka
4 5 (9.80%) Keycloak
5 4 (7.84%) AWS CDK
5 4 (7.84%) cloud-init
5 4 (7.84%) Node.js
5 4 (7.84%) React
6 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.88%) CSS
6 3 (5.88%) Electron
6 3 (5.88%) HTML
6 3 (5.88%) JNI
7 1 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.96%) Django
7 1 (1.96%) FreeSWITCH
7 1 (1.96%) Loki
7 1 (1.96%) OpenID
7 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Data Centre
2 7 (13.73%) PKI
3 6 (11.76%) Hedge funds
3 6 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.84%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (5.88%) SCADA
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.96%) CUDA
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.96%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Linux
2 39 (76.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (43.14%) Ubuntu
4 12 (23.53%) Unix
5 8 (15.69%) Windows
5 8 (15.69%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.88%) Mac OS
6 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.96%) Rocky
7 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) CI/CD
2 18 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (33.33%) DevOps
4 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (19.61%) High Availability
5 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (19.61%) RBAC
6 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.69%) ITSM
7 8 (15.69%) Microservices
7 8 (15.69%) Task Automation
8 7 (13.73%) Information Management
8 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 7 (13.73%) Load Balancing
9 6 (11.76%) Incident Response
10 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
10 5 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (7.84%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) Bash
3 15 (29.41%) Shell Script
4 13 (25.49%) Perl
5 8 (15.69%) Java
5 8 (15.69%) Ruby
6 7 (13.73%) MATLAB
7 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 5 (9.80%) Go
9 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
9 4 (7.84%) SQL
10 3 (5.88%) C
11 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 16 (31.37%) SC Cleared
3 15 (29.41%) RHCE
4 8 (15.69%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.84%) RHCSA
6 3 (5.88%) Degree
6 3 (5.88%) MCSE
6 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.96%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) SLA
2 5 (9.80%) NCSC
3 1 (1.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 10 (19.61%) Docker
3 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (9.80%) KVM
4 5 (9.80%) Postfix
5 2 (3.92%) vSphere
6 1 (1.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.96%) Ceph
6 1 (1.96%) Firmware
6 1 (1.96%) GPFS
6 1 (1.96%) HDFS
6 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.96%) Lustre
6 1 (1.96%) QEMU
6 1 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.96%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (68.63%) Ansible
2 14 (27.45%) Terraform
3 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
4 12 (23.53%) Puppet
5 9 (17.65%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (13.73%) Check_MK
6 7 (13.73%) Podman
7 6 (11.76%) Grafana
8 4 (7.84%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (7.84%) Packer
8 4 (7.84%) Progress Chef
8 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
9 3 (5.88%) WSUS
10 2 (3.92%) HAProxy
10 2 (3.92%) Nagios
11 1 (1.96%) FreeIPA
11 1 (1.96%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (1.96%) Kibana
11 1 (1.96%) SCOM
11 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (56.86%) Red Hat
2 16 (31.37%) VMware
3 10 (19.61%) Oracle
4 7 (13.73%) Splunk
5 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.84%) Okta
7 2 (3.92%) Cisco
8 1 (1.96%) Citrix
8 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.96%) Dell
8 1 (1.96%) Dialogic
8 1 (1.96%) Foundry
8 1 (1.96%) HP
8 1 (1.96%) Metaswitch
8 1 (1.96%) NVIDIA