CentOS Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

CentOS Linux
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring CentOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CentOS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.99% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
East of England median daily rate £485 - £460
% change year-on-year - - -31.85%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 67 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.43% 17.54% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 15 89
10th Percentile £187 £243 £256
25th Percentile £325 £270 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% -8.82%
75th Percentile £519 £475 £650
90th Percentile £620 £534 £740
East of England median daily rate £350 £366 £420
% change year-on-year -4.44% -12.80% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 4
10th Percentile £41.25 £50.17 £56.50
25th Percentile £63.13 £61.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £61.25
90th Percentile £67.25 £69.25 £63.50
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £62.50 £14.16
% change year-on-year -64.00% +341.38% -30.07%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CentOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing CentOS

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Stevenage - 7 £478 - 1
CentOS
East of England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (14.29%) SAN
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Administrator
1 7 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) LDAP
1 7 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (85.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Information Management
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 7 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 7 (100.00%) Podman
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft