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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 479 539
Rank change year-on-year -118 +60 +104
Contract jobs citing Rocky 11 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.049% 0.016%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% 0.35% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 6
10th Percentile - £451 £463
25th Percentile - £505 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £538 £534
90th Percentile - £588 £613
UK median daily rate £600 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -25.93%

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 4,277 3,688 5,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.70% 13.91% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 2,468 3,431
10th Percentile £189 £200 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -2.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £465 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +0.11% -2.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 200 396
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.31 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.41 £16.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £20.38 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -18.50% -41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.32 £66.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £22.78 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.10% -8.88% -41.18%

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 5 July 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
South West - 5 - - 3
East of England - 4 £600 - 3
London -87 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
1 4 (36.36%) SAN
2 3 (27.27%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
3 1 (9.09%) InfiniBand
3 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 1 (9.09%) NAS
3 1 (9.09%) SSH
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Open Source Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Backup Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) NetApp Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) NetApp Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Backup Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (54.55%) CentOS
2 6 (54.55%) Ubuntu
3 4 (36.36%) Debian
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Solaris
4 1 (9.09%) SUSE
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Open Source
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Security Hardening
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Go
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) GPFS
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) KVM
3 1 (9.09%) Lustre
3 1 (9.09%) NFS
3 1 (9.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) NetBackup
4 2 (18.18%) Terraform
5 1 (9.09%) Grafana
5 1 (9.09%) Nagios
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
5 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) NetApp
1 4 (36.36%) Veeam
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Murex
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk