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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 438 462
Rank change year-on-year -138 +24 +43
Contract jobs citing CentOS 61 61 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.34% 1.62% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 40 43
10th Percentile £261 £333 £298
25th Percentile £323 £438 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £531
90th Percentile £669 £640 £609
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £112.00
UK median hourly rate - - £112.00

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 4,551 3,777 4,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.83% 13.78% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 2,485 2,965
10th Percentile £190 £190 £201
25th Percentile £310 £298 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 256 224
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £21.66
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.08 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.54% -57.68% +24.29%
75th Percentile £67.92 £60.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +6.00% -52.10% +14.43%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -24 17 £600 +35.98% 8
South East -60 17 £275 -50.00% 7
South West -35 7 £575 +4.55% 4
North of England -63 7 £491 +34.38% 6
Midlands - 7 £530 - 3
London -97 6 £550 +4.76% 12
North West - 6 £481 - 4
West Midlands - 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 3 £530 - 1
Yorkshire -44 1 £650 +78.08% 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 5 (8.20%) nginx
1 5 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.56%) Apache
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) Tomcat
3 3 (4.92%) IIS
4 2 (3.28%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.64%) Confluence
5 1 (1.64%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) AWS
3 13 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (19.67%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
6 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) GitHub
7 3 (4.92%) Cloudflare
7 3 (4.92%) GCP
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.28%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.64%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 20 (32.79%) DNS
2 16 (26.23%) SAN
3 13 (21.31%) Firewall
4 6 (9.84%) DHCP
4 6 (9.84%) TCP/IP
4 6 (9.84%) VLAN
5 3 (4.92%) NAS
6 2 (3.28%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.28%) INAP
6 2 (3.28%) RTP
6 2 (3.28%) Skype
6 2 (3.28%) SSH
6 2 (3.28%) tcpdump
6 2 (3.28%) VoIP
6 2 (3.28%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.64%) LAN
7 1 (1.64%) VPN
7 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) GitLab
2 11 (18.03%) Git
2 11 (18.03%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.48%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) JMeter
4 2 (3.28%) Locust
4 2 (3.28%) Robot Framework
4 2 (3.28%) TestCafe
5 1 (1.64%) Newman
General
1 11 (18.03%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 13 (21.31%) Senior
2 7 (11.48%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) NetApp Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Storage Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (8.20%) Backup Specialist
4 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) NetApp Specialist
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 5 (8.20%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Technical Specialist
5 4 (6.56%) Administrator
5 4 (6.56%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (6.56%) Site Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Unix Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) Terraform
2 7 (11.48%) LDAP
3 6 (9.84%) Middleware
4 4 (6.56%) YAML
5 3 (4.92%) LAMP
5 3 (4.92%) LEMP Stack
6 2 (3.28%) Kafka
6 2 (3.28%) Taurus
7 1 (1.64%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.64%) cloud-init
7 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.64%) JSON
7 1 (1.64%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.64%) OAuth
7 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.64%) OpenID
7 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.64%) REST
7 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Replication
2 6 (9.84%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.92%) PKI
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.64%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) SCADA
6 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 45 (73.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (63.93%) Windows
4 31 (50.82%) Ubuntu
5 29 (47.54%) Windows Server
6 13 (21.31%) Rocky
7 10 (16.39%) Windows 10
8 6 (9.84%) Mac OS
8 6 (9.84%) Unix
9 4 (6.56%) Solaris
9 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.64%) Android
11 1 (1.64%) SUSE
11 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (22.95%) CI/CD
2 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (21.31%) DevOps
4 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.84%) Configuration Management
5 6 (9.84%) Containerisation
5 6 (9.84%) Migration
6 5 (8.20%) Decision-Making
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (8.20%) ITSM
6 5 (8.20%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (8.20%) Observability
6 5 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (6.56%) Agile
7 4 (6.56%) Information Management
7 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 4 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (4.92%) Load Balancing
8 3 (4.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.82%) PowerShell
2 22 (36.07%) Python
3 16 (26.23%) Bash
4 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.56%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.64%) Go
6 1 (1.64%) Java
6 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (73.77%) Security Cleared
2 32 (52.46%) SC Cleared
3 17 (27.87%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.28%) CISM
5 2 (3.28%) CISSP
5 2 (3.28%) MOS
6 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.64%) CRISC
6 1 (1.64%) GIAC
6 1 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.56%) SLA
3 2 (3.28%) NCSC
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (42.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.75%) Docker
3 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.92%) Dovecot
5 3 (4.92%) Postfix
6 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.28%) vSphere
7 1 (1.64%) KVM
7 1 (1.64%) NFS
Systems Management
1 33 (54.10%) Ansible
2 13 (21.31%) NetBackup
3 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.20%) Puppet
4 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (6.56%) Check_MK
5 4 (6.56%) HAProxy
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle ZFS
5 4 (6.56%) Podman
6 3 (4.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (4.92%) Grafana
7 2 (3.28%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.28%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.64%) Consul
8 1 (1.64%) Istio
8 1 (1.64%) linkerd
8 1 (1.64%) Packer
8 1 (1.64%) QRadar
8 1 (1.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.31%) NetApp
3 12 (19.67%) Veeam
3 12 (19.67%) VMware
4 9 (14.75%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.20%) Atlassian
5 5 (8.20%) Cisco
6 4 (6.56%) Splunk
7 3 (4.92%) F5
7 3 (4.92%) Google
7 3 (4.92%) Juniper
8 2 (3.28%) Apple
8 2 (3.28%) Dialogic
8 2 (3.28%) Metaswitch
8 2 (3.28%) Okta
9 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.64%) EMC
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle
9 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.64%) Veritas