Rocky Contract Job Trends in England

Rocky Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 499 548
Rank change year-on-year -32 +49 +200
Contract jobs citing Rocky 2 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.017% 0.040%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.048% 0.12% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile £356 £500 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -38.30% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £369 £672 £630
90th Percentile - £689 £693
UK median daily rate £506 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -13.83% -2.08% -

All Operating Systems
England

Rocky 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 4,186 4,050 5,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.31% 13.98% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,746 2,555 3,993
10th Percentile £177 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £313 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £566 £594 £613
90th Percentile £669 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 141 307
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% +76.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £63.50 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +53.23% +27.84%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rocky relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Rocky job vacancy trend in England

Rocky
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rocky.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rocky

Rocky
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 Rocky within the England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
South East -23 1 £363 -
Rocky
UK

Rocky
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cryptanalysis
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) GPFS
1 1 (50.00%) Lustre
1 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware