CentOS Contracts in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring CentOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CentOS over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 482 470
Rank change year-on-year +54 -12 +47
Contract jobs citing CentOS 51 64 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.50% 1.30% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 43 126
10th Percentile £346 £436 £454
25th Percentile £413 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -18.29% +6.52%
75th Percentile £728 £550 £688
90th Percentile £750 £593 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £21.25 £18.10
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.74
Median % change year-on-year - +20.10% -72.87%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £19.37
90th Percentile - - £19.75
UK median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.74
% change year-on-year - +20.10% -72.87%

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 3,402 4,941 7,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.59% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,314 3,373 5,557
10th Percentile £200 £185 £193
25th Percentile £313 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £470 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -8.29% +2.50%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £467 £470 £501
% change year-on-year -0.74% -6.09% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 360 372
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.75 £14.03
25th Percentile £17.38 £14.72 £17.78
Median hourly rate £21.28 £22.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -41.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £59.44 £60.40 £64.63
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +2.27% -42.86% +67.39%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in England.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in England.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in England

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 16 May 2025. 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 +16 26 £550 +7.84% 26
North of England +20 13 £575 +24.32% 7
North West +12 7 £588 - 7
South East +56 6 £613 - 30
Yorkshire +12 6 £563 +21.68%
Midlands +12 3 - - 5
East of England +24 2 £250 - 13
West Midlands +8 2 - - 3
South West +35 1 £425 -26.09% 12
East Midlands - 1 - -
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.84%) Apache
1 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) nginx
2 3 (5.88%) Traefik
3 2 (3.92%) IIS
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.96%) JBoss
4 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.96%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) AWS
2 14 (27.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (21.57%) Azure
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
4 7 (13.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.88%) SaaS
8 2 (3.92%) GCP
8 2 (3.92%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.96%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 19 (37.25%) DNS
2 10 (19.61%) DHCP
3 9 (17.65%) Firewall
3 9 (17.65%) SAN
3 9 (17.65%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.84%) iSCSI
5 3 (5.88%) FIX Connectivity
5 3 (5.88%) HTTP
5 3 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (5.88%) VLAN
5 3 (5.88%) VPN
5 3 (5.88%) Wireshark
6 2 (3.92%) FCoE
6 2 (3.92%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.92%) NAS
6 2 (3.92%) Network Security
6 2 (3.92%) SSH
6 2 (3.92%) SSL
7 1 (1.96%) BGP
7 1 (1.96%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
1 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.88%) Big Data
2 3 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.88%) MySQL
2 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.92%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 18 (35.29%) GitLab
3 9 (17.65%) JIRA
4 5 (9.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.84%) Git
5 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.92%) Maven
8 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.76%) Banking
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Law
4 3 (5.88%) Legal
4 3 (5.88%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Senior
2 14 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Administrator
8 3 (5.88%) Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 3 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Linux Support
8 3 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) cloud-init
2 5 (9.80%) Kafka
3 4 (7.84%) Keycloak
4 3 (5.88%) .NET
4 3 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (5.88%) CSS
4 3 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (5.88%) HTML
4 3 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.88%) YAML
5 2 (3.92%) LDAP
6 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.96%) JSON
6 1 (1.96%) LAMP
6 1 (1.96%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.96%) REST
6 1 (1.96%) SOAP
6 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.84%) PKI
4 3 (5.88%) Eurex
4 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Clustering
5 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.96%) Bitcoin
6 1 (1.96%) Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Equities
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (45.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (39.22%) Windows
4 17 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 17 (33.33%) Unix
5 11 (21.57%) Windows Server
6 7 (13.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (7.84%) Rocky
8 3 (5.88%) Debian
8 3 (5.88%) Solaris
8 3 (5.88%) SUSE
9 2 (3.92%) AIX
9 2 (3.92%) Fedora
9 2 (3.92%) HPUX
9 2 (3.92%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (1.96%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.96%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) DevOps
2 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (21.57%) Agile
5 10 (19.61%) High Availability
6 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 6 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (11.76%) DevSecOps
8 5 (9.80%) Electronic Trading
8 5 (9.80%) Observability
8 5 (9.80%) Patch Management
8 5 (9.80%) Problem Management
9 4 (7.84%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (7.84%) Secrets Management
9 4 (7.84%) Static Application Security Testing
9 4 (7.84%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (62.75%) Python
2 22 (43.14%) Bash
3 11 (21.57%) Go
4 7 (13.73%) Perl
4 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
5 6 (11.76%) SQL
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.88%) C#
7 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.96%) PHP
8 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) NCSC
1 4 (7.84%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 10 (19.61%) Docker
3 7 (13.73%) vSphere
4 3 (5.88%) vCloud
4 3 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (3.92%) KVM
5 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.96%) Firmware
6 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (47.06%) Ansible
2 22 (43.14%) Terraform
3 21 (41.18%) Kubernetes
4 12 (23.53%) Packer
5 11 (21.57%) Puppet
6 10 (19.61%) ZABBIX
7 8 (15.69%) Prometheus
8 5 (9.80%) Grafana
8 5 (9.80%) Nagios
8 5 (9.80%) Nessus
9 4 (7.84%) Consul
9 4 (7.84%) HAProxy
9 4 (7.84%) Istio
9 4 (7.84%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (7.84%) linkerd
9 4 (7.84%) Progress Chef
9 4 (7.84%) Rancher
10 3 (5.88%) Kibana
10 3 (5.88%) Rundeck
10 3 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Red Hat
2 18 (35.29%) VMware
3 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.84%) Dell
4 4 (7.84%) Okta
4 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.84%) Splunk
5 3 (5.88%) Apple
5 3 (5.88%) Bloomberg
5 3 (5.88%) Cisco
5 3 (5.88%) CQG
5 3 (5.88%) ESET
5 3 (5.88%) F5
5 3 (5.88%) Hitachi
5 3 (5.88%) ION Trading
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle
5 3 (5.88%) Patsystems
5 3 (5.88%) Reuters
5 3 (5.88%) SolarWinds
5 3 (5.88%) Trayport