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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 388 479
Rank change year-on-year -101 +91 +46
Contract jobs citing CentOS 46 104 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.14% 2.78% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 50 40
10th Percentile £464 £373 £420
25th Percentile £500 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £615 £564
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% +9.09% -13.27%
75th Percentile £622 £738 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £639
UK median daily rate £539 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -15.53% +15.91% -15.38%
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 4,045 3,745 5,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.00% 13.90% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,692 2,364 3,819
10th Percentile £175 £200 £178
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 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 125 294
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.35 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £17.73
Median hourly rate £25.04 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.31% +75.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% +13.33% +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 11 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 11 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 -21 11 £500 -14.89% 3
East of England - 8 £492 - 2
South West -15 7 £550 -3.72% 7
Yorkshire -51 7 £525 -27.59% 2
North of England -57 7 £525 -27.59% 2
West Midlands -36 4 £540 +45.95% 3
South East -40 4 £500 -13.04% 4
Midlands -46 4 £540 +45.95% 4
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 (6.52%) Apache
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.35%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) GCP
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
4 5 (10.87%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (8.70%) npm
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) DHCP
2 5 (10.87%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) AMQP
3 4 (8.70%) DKIM
3 4 (8.70%) DMARC
3 4 (8.70%) SAN
3 4 (8.70%) SMTP
3 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.52%) Skype
5 2 (4.35%) HTTP
5 2 (4.35%) NAS
5 2 (4.35%) SSL
5 2 (4.35%) VLAN
6 1 (2.17%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.17%) RTP
6 1 (2.17%) VoIP
6 1 (2.17%) VPN
6 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
1 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
1 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.17%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Jenkins
2 10 (21.74%) GitLab
3 9 (19.57%) Git
4 4 (8.70%) Maven
4 4 (8.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Finance
5 5 (10.87%) Aerospace
5 5 (10.87%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Lead
2 9 (19.57%) Administrator
3 5 (10.87%) Developer
3 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Applications Support
4 4 (8.70%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Kafka Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Unix Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) LDAP
2 7 (15.22%) Middleware
3 6 (13.04%) Kafka
3 6 (13.04%) Keycloak
3 6 (13.04%) YAML
4 5 (10.87%) cloud-init
5 4 (8.70%) AWS CDK
5 4 (8.70%) Node.js
5 4 (8.70%) React
6 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.52%) CSS
6 3 (6.52%) Electron
6 3 (6.52%) HTML
6 3 (6.52%) JNI
7 1 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.17%) Django
7 1 (2.17%) FreeSWITCH
7 1 (2.17%) Loki
7 1 (2.17%) OpenID
7 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.39%) PKI
3 6 (13.04%) Hedge funds
4 5 (10.87%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.52%) SCADA
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.17%) CUDA
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (71.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (41.30%) Ubuntu
4 12 (26.09%) Unix
5 8 (17.39%) Windows
5 8 (17.39%) Windows Server
6 3 (6.52%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 18 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (32.61%) DevOps
4 12 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (21.74%) High Availability
7 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
8 8 (17.39%) Microservices
8 8 (17.39%) RBAC
8 8 (17.39%) Task Automation
9 7 (15.22%) Load Balancing
10 6 (13.04%) ITSM
11 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (10.87%) Incident Response
11 5 (10.87%) Information Management
11 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 5 (10.87%) ITIL
11 5 (10.87%) Observability
11 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Python
2 18 (39.13%) Bash
3 14 (30.43%) Shell Script
4 11 (23.91%) Perl
5 8 (17.39%) Java
6 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
7 6 (13.04%) Go
7 6 (13.04%) Ruby
8 5 (10.87%) MATLAB
9 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
9 4 (8.70%) SQL
10 3 (6.52%) C
11 1 (2.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.09%) RHCE
4 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.70%) RHCSA
6 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 3 (6.52%) MCSE
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) NCSC
1 5 (10.87%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.57%) Docker
3 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.87%) KVM
5 4 (8.70%) Postfix
6 1 (2.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (2.17%) Ceph
6 1 (2.17%) Firmware
6 1 (2.17%) HDFS
6 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.17%) QEMU
6 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (65.22%) Ansible
2 14 (30.43%) Terraform
3 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
4 10 (21.74%) Puppet
5 7 (15.22%) Grafana
5 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (10.87%) Check_MK
6 5 (10.87%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (10.87%) Packer
6 5 (10.87%) Podman
6 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
7 4 (8.70%) Progress Chef
8 3 (6.52%) WSUS
9 2 (4.35%) Nagios
10 1 (2.17%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (2.17%) Argo
10 1 (2.17%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
10 1 (2.17%) Kibana
10 1 (2.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 26 (56.52%) Red Hat
2 13 (28.26%) VMware
3 11 (23.91%) Oracle
4 8 (17.39%) Splunk
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
5 5 (10.87%) Okta
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco
7 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
7 1 (2.17%) Dell
7 1 (2.17%) Dialogic
7 1 (2.17%) Foundry
7 1 (2.17%) HP
7 1 (2.17%) Metaswitch
7 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA