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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 407 470
Rank change year-on-year -136 +63 +3
Contract jobs citing CentOS 41 72 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.00% 2.12% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 48 43
10th Percentile £462 £400 £456
25th Percentile £492 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £510
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +25.00% -18.40%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £569
90th Percentile £615 £750 £593
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -20.00%
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 4,113 3,399 5,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.47% 13.94% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,727 2,337 3,527
10th Percentile £181 £200 £180
25th Percentile £303 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £588
90th Percentile £669 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 144 375
10th Percentile £15.45 £16.33 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.12 £15.21
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% +19.40% -27.59%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.71 £68.53 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £26.75 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +12.09% -26.67%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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
North of England -82 10 £525 -27.59% 6
East of England - 10 £478 - 1
Yorkshire -63 9 £531 -26.76% 3
South West -25 6 £663 +55.88% 1
Midlands -64 5 £539 - 3
South East -64 4 £563 -2.17% 6
West Midlands -65 4 £540 - 1
London -78 4 £475 -28.30% 8
East Midlands -35 1 £530 - 2
North West -45 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 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) OpenShift
3 3 (7.32%) AWS
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.88%) npm
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) DKIM
1 4 (9.76%) DMARC
1 4 (9.76%) SMTP
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) Skype
3 2 (4.88%) AMQP
3 2 (4.88%) DHCP
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.44%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.44%) RTP
4 1 (2.44%) SAN
4 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.44%) VLAN
4 1 (2.44%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.44%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Git
2 10 (24.39%) GitLab
3 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.88%) Maven
4 2 (4.88%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.44%) GoCD
5 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (43.90%) Documentation Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Aerospace
4 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Billing
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Administrator
2 9 (21.95%) Linux Administrator
3 8 (19.51%) Lead
4 3 (7.32%) Wintel Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Applications Support
5 2 (4.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.44%) Consultant
6 1 (2.44%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (2.44%) Installations Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Operations Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) LDAP
2 10 (24.39%) Middleware
3 8 (19.51%) YAML
4 1 (2.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Data Centre
2 8 (19.51%) Management Information System
3 5 (12.20%) PKI
4 3 (7.32%) SCADA
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) CUDA
6 1 (2.44%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (85.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (51.22%) Ubuntu
4 10 (24.39%) Windows
5 8 (19.51%) Windows Server
6 3 (7.32%) Windows 10
6 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.44%) Android
7 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.44%) Rocky
7 1 (2.44%) Unix
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
2 13 (31.71%) DevOps
3 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (24.39%) RBAC
5 9 (21.95%) Information Management
5 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 8 (19.51%) High Availability
6 8 (19.51%) ITSM
7 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (12.20%) Load Balancing
9 4 (9.76%) Agile
9 4 (9.76%) Change Management
9 4 (9.76%) ITIL
9 4 (9.76%) SIEM
9 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (9.76%) Task Automation
9 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.32%) Critical Thinking
10 3 (7.32%) NsoIT
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Shell Script
3 9 (21.95%) MATLAB
4 8 (19.51%) Perl
4 8 (19.51%) Ruby
5 7 (17.07%) Bash
5 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.32%) SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (36.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.95%) RHCE
4 6 (14.63%) DV Cleared
5 4 (9.76%) Degree
6 3 (7.32%) MCSE
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.44%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (12.20%) Docker
3 5 (12.20%) Postfix
4 2 (4.88%) vSphere
5 1 (2.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.44%) Ceph
5 1 (2.44%) Firmware
5 1 (2.44%) GPFS
5 1 (2.44%) HDFS
5 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) KVM
5 1 (2.44%) Lustre
5 1 (2.44%) QEMU
5 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (70.73%) Ansible
2 9 (21.95%) Check_MK
2 9 (21.95%) Podman
2 9 (21.95%) Puppet
2 9 (21.95%) Red Hat Satellite
3 8 (19.51%) Terraform
4 4 (9.76%) Grafana
4 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
5 3 (7.32%) WSUS
6 2 (4.88%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.44%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (2.44%) FreeIPA
7 1 (2.44%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.44%) Kibana
7 1 (2.44%) Nessus
7 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.44%) SCOM
7 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Red Hat
2 15 (36.59%) VMware
3 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
6 1 (2.44%) Apple
6 1 (2.44%) Citrix
6 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.44%) Dell
6 1 (2.44%) Dialogic
6 1 (2.44%) Foundry
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) Metaswitch
6 1 (2.44%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk