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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 437 467
Rank change year-on-year -116 +30 +6
Contract jobs citing CentOS 40 52 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.01% 1.53% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 43
10th Percentile £376 £343 £436
25th Percentile £464 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +9.89% -17.44%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £550
90th Percentile £588 £750 £593
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.64% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.10%

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 3,973 3,388 4,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.64% 13.99% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,303 3,407
10th Percentile £185 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £470
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -0.53% -8.29%
75th Percentile £571 £588 £588
90th Percentile £659 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £456 £467 £466
% change year-on-year -2.25% +0.11% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 363
10th Percentile £15.96 £15.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.33 £15.21
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.28 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.72% -3.27% -42.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £22.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +90.64% -0.68% -43.28%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -17 11 £480 +92.10% 1
North of England -72 10 £531 -7.65% 6
Yorkshire -49 9 £537 -4.58% 3
South West -29 5 £445 +4.71% 2
South East -55 5 £563 -2.17% 9
London -79 4 £475 -13.64% 1
East Midlands -25 3 £530 - 2
Midlands -57 3 £530 - 2
North West -44 1 £300 -48.94% 1
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 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) nginx
1 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) IaaS
6 1 (2.50%) npm
6 1 (2.50%) PaaS
6 1 (2.50%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
2 4 (10.00%) SAN
3 3 (7.50%) NAS
4 2 (5.00%) DHCP
4 2 (5.00%) Firewall
4 2 (5.00%) Kerberos
4 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) AMQP
5 1 (2.50%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.50%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) SSH
5 1 (2.50%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.50%) Impala
1 1 (2.50%) MySQL
1 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) GitLab
2 13 (32.50%) Git
3 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.50%) GoCD
5 1 (2.50%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (47.50%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Administrator
2 11 (27.50%) Linux Administrator
3 8 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.50%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.50%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Desktop Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Installations Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) LDAP
1 12 (30.00%) Middleware
2 9 (22.50%) YAML
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) LAMP
3 1 (2.50%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (22.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) PKI
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (52.50%) Ubuntu
4 10 (25.00%) Windows
5 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.00%) Rocky
7 1 (2.50%) Android
7 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.50%) SUSE
7 1 (2.50%) Unix
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (30.00%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) Information Management
4 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (22.50%) RBAC
7 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (20.00%) ITSM
8 6 (15.00%) Agile
8 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (10.00%) High Availability
9 4 (10.00%) Migration
9 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (7.50%) Configuration Management
10 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (7.50%) Security Hardening
10 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) Shell Script
3 11 (27.50%) MATLAB
4 8 (20.00%) Perl
4 8 (20.00%) Ruby
5 6 (15.00%) Bash
6 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) RHCE
4 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.00%) Docker
4 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.00%) Postfix
4 2 (5.00%) vSphere
5 1 (2.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.50%) Dovecot
5 1 (2.50%) GPFS
5 1 (2.50%) HDFS
5 1 (2.50%) KVM
5 1 (2.50%) Lustre
5 1 (2.50%) NFS
5 1 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 34 (85.00%) Ansible
2 12 (30.00%) Terraform
3 11 (27.50%) Check_MK
3 11 (27.50%) Podman
3 11 (27.50%) Puppet
3 11 (27.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (7.50%) Grafana
4 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.00%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (2.50%) FreeIPA
6 1 (2.50%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.50%) Nessus
6 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.50%) SCOM
6 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 19 (47.50%) VMware
3 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) Apple
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Juniper
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk