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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 389 486
Rank change year-on-year -107 +97 +35
Contract jobs citing CentOS 50 107 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.39% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.22% 2.80% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 41
10th Percentile £459 £351 £425
25th Percentile £500 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +1.77% -13.08%
75th Percentile £622 £738 £600
90th Percentile £644 £750 £638
UK median daily rate £545 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -7.63% +7.27% -15.38%
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 4,111 3,820 5,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.07% 13.90% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,732 2,408 3,802
10th Percentile £175 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 134 292
10th Percentile £15.11 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.49% +44.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63.56 £67.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% - +30.00%

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 4 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 4 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 -24 11 £500 -9.09% 5
East of England - 9 £492 - 13
South West -8 8 £550 +11.39% 10
Yorkshire -50 7 £525 -27.59% 8
North of England -68 7 £525 -27.59% 14
South East -51 5 £503 -12.61% 20
West Midlands -49 4 £540 +45.95% 10
Midlands -49 4 £540 +45.95% 18
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
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) AWS
2 9 (18.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (12.00%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (10.00%) GitHub
5 5 (10.00%) npm
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) DNS
2 5 (10.00%) AMQP
2 5 (10.00%) DHCP
2 5 (10.00%) Firewall
3 4 (8.00%) DKIM
3 4 (8.00%) DMARC
3 4 (8.00%) SAN
3 4 (8.00%) SMTP
3 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.00%) Skype
5 2 (4.00%) HTTP
5 2 (4.00%) NAS
5 2 (4.00%) SSL
5 2 (4.00%) VLAN
6 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.00%) RTP
6 1 (2.00%) VoIP
6 1 (2.00%) VPN
6 1 (2.00%) VSAN
6 1 (2.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (12.00%) RDBMS
1 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.00%) Impala
4 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (22.00%) GitLab
3 10 (20.00%) Git
4 5 (10.00%) Maven
5 4 (8.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Finance
5 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 5 (10.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Billing
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Lead
2 9 (18.00%) Administrator
3 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 5 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Linux Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) LDAP
2 7 (14.00%) Kafka
2 7 (14.00%) Keycloak
2 7 (14.00%) Middleware
3 6 (12.00%) cloud-init
3 6 (12.00%) YAML
4 4 (8.00%) AWS CDK
4 4 (8.00%) Node.js
4 4 (8.00%) React
5 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
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 10 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (18.00%) PKI
3 6 (12.00%) Hedge funds
4 5 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
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%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.00%) CUDA
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 13 (26.00%) Unix
5 10 (20.00%) Windows
5 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.00%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 19 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (32.00%) DevOps
4 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 10 (20.00%) High Availability
7 8 (16.00%) Microservices
7 8 (16.00%) RBAC
7 8 (16.00%) Task Automation
8 7 (14.00%) Load Balancing
8 7 (14.00%) Observability
9 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) ITIL
9 6 (12.00%) ITSM
9 6 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (58.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) Bash
3 15 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 11 (22.00%) Perl
5 9 (18.00%) Java
6 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (14.00%) Go
8 6 (12.00%) Ruby
9 5 (10.00%) MATLAB
10 4 (8.00%) C
10 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
10 4 (8.00%) SQL
11 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (24.00%) RHCE
4 7 (14.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.00%) RHCSA
6 3 (6.00%) Degree
6 3 (6.00%) MCSE
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) NCSC
2 5 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.00%) Docker
3 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.00%) KVM
5 4 (8.00%) Postfix
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%) HDFS
7 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Ansible
2 16 (32.00%) Terraform
3 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
4 10 (20.00%) Puppet
5 9 (18.00%) Grafana
6 7 (14.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (12.00%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (12.00%) Packer
7 6 (12.00%) Prometheus
8 5 (10.00%) Check_MK
8 5 (10.00%) Podman
9 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
10 3 (6.00%) WSUS
11 2 (4.00%) Nagios
12 1 (2.00%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
12 1 (2.00%) Kibana
12 1 (2.00%) Nessus
12 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
12 1 (2.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (56.00%) Red Hat
2 14 (28.00%) VMware
3 13 (26.00%) Oracle
4 9 (18.00%) Splunk
5 6 (12.00%) Okta
6 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.00%) Cisco
8 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.00%) Dell
8 1 (2.00%) Dialogic
8 1 (2.00%) EMC
8 1 (2.00%) Foundry
8 1 (2.00%) HP
8 1 (2.00%) Metaswitch
8 1 (2.00%) NVIDIA