CentOS Contracts in Hampshire

CentOS Linux
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 103 97
Rank change year-on-year +37 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing CentOS 7 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.89% 0.17% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.29% 0.71% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £515 - £435
25th Percentile £525 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £644
90th Percentile - - £655
South East median daily rate £550 £520 £488
% change year-on-year +5.77% +6.67% -25.00%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 163 421 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.76% 23.61% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 225 246
10th Percentile £325 £300 £205
25th Percentile £425 £463 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £783 £643
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 44
10th Percentile £41.40 £16.95 £17.98
25th Percentile £52.14 £17.69 £49.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.67% +244.65%
75th Percentile £60.72 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -62.36% -13.04% +206.67%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in Hampshire

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in Hampshire

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Basingstoke - 4 £600 - 6
Southampton - 1 £550 - 3
Portsmouth - 1 £550 - 2
Eastleigh - 1 £500 -
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 5 (71.43%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MSI
1 3 (42.86%) Robot Framework
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Integrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Batch Scripting
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Web Development
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Prototyping
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) WMI
3 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Dell