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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 444 481
Rank change year-on-year -120 +37 -4
Contract jobs citing CentOS 41 46 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.096% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.00% 1.31% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 42
10th Percentile £376 £337 £434
25th Percentile £464 £404 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £535
90th Percentile £600 £700 £586
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 4,097 3,515 5,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.56% 14.23% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,368 3,409
10th Percentile £188 £200 £188
25th Percentile £313 £313 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £689 £700
UK median daily rate £460 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.08% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 180 385
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.31 £15.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.14 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.85% -16.80% -51.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.60 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £23.98
% change year-on-year +27.27% -8.24% -49.53%

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 16 June 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 16 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
East of England -23 11 £480 +92.10%
North of England -66 10 £531 +28.65%
Yorkshire -47 9 £537 +40.30%
South East -62 6 £563 +2.27% 4
South West -23 5 £470 +10.59% 3
London -100 4 £525 -4.55% 4
East Midlands -21 3 £530 -
Midlands -57 3 £530 -
North West -42 1 £300 -29.41%
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 4 (9.76%) Apache
1 4 (9.76%) nginx
1 4 (9.76%) Tomcat
2 3 (7.32%) IIS
2 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) AWS
1 11 (26.83%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) Cloudflare
2 3 (7.32%) GitHub
2 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.88%) GCP
3 2 (4.88%) SaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.44%) IaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.44%) PaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Sentry
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) DNS
2 4 (9.76%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) SAN
3 3 (7.32%) NAS
4 2 (4.88%) BIG-IP
4 2 (4.88%) DHCP
4 2 (4.88%) SSH
4 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.44%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.44%) LAN
5 1 (2.44%) VPN
5 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) MySQL
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (36.59%) GitLab
2 13 (31.71%) Git
3 12 (29.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.88%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.44%) GoCD
5 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (48.78%) Documentation Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Administrator
1 11 (26.83%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (19.51%) Lead
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Architect
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior
5 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Installations Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) LDAP
2 12 (29.27%) Middleware
2 12 (29.27%) YAML
3 3 (7.32%) LAMP
3 3 (7.32%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.44%) OpenID
4 1 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Data Centre
2 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.44%) NHS
5 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (87.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (56.10%) Ubuntu
4 12 (29.27%) Windows
5 8 (19.51%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.88%) Rocky
6 2 (4.88%) Unix
6 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.44%) Android
7 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
2 14 (34.15%) DevOps
2 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.83%) Information Management
3 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 9 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (21.95%) RBAC
5 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (19.51%) ITSM
6 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (14.63%) Migration
7 5 (12.20%) Agile
8 4 (9.76%) Configuration Management
8 4 (9.76%) Incident Response
9 3 (7.32%) Containerisation
9 3 (7.32%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (7.32%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) Shell Script
3 11 (26.83%) MATLAB
4 8 (19.51%) Bash
4 8 (19.51%) Perl
4 8 (19.51%) Ruby
5 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.95%) RHCE
4 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.44%) CISM
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.44%) CRISC
6 1 (2.44%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.83%) SLA
2 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
4 1 (2.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.44%) NCSC
4 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (14.63%) Docker
4 4 (9.76%) Postfix
5 3 (7.32%) Dovecot
6 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.44%) GPFS
7 1 (2.44%) KVM
7 1 (2.44%) Lustre
7 1 (2.44%) NFS
7 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (2.44%) Varnish
7 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (85.37%) Ansible
2 13 (31.71%) Terraform
3 11 (26.83%) Check_MK
3 11 (26.83%) Podman
3 11 (26.83%) Puppet
3 11 (26.83%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (9.76%) HAProxy
5 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.44%) FreeIPA
6 1 (2.44%) Grafana
6 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.44%) Nagios
6 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.44%) SCOM
6 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (60.98%) Red Hat
2 18 (43.90%) VMware
3 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco
5 3 (7.32%) F5
5 3 (7.32%) Juniper
6 2 (4.88%) Splunk
7 1 (2.44%) Apple
7 1 (2.44%) Citrix
7 1 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.44%) Google
7 1 (2.44%) Okta
7 1 (2.44%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow