CentOS Contracts in London

CentOS Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 353 418
Rank change year-on-year +18 +65 +67
DemandTrendContract jobs citing CentOS 24 30 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.56% 1.49% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 24
10th Percentile £297 £304 £430
25th Percentile £376 £468 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £505 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.44% -19.20% -
75th Percentile £670 £525 £652
90th Percentile £700 £563 £687
England median daily rate £550 £501 £593
% change year-on-year +9.73% -15.40% -1.25%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,535 2,016 3,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.48% 12.42% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 1,376 2,420
10th Percentile £225 £225 £210
25th Percentile £363 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £663
90th Percentile £738 £725 £756
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 44 58
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.69 £16.63
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.50 £21.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £41.92
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -43.22% +75.31%
75th Percentile £25.18 £41.25 £63.38
90th Percentile £58.93 £61.00 £84.07
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £41.41
% change year-on-year -26.15% -21.52% +73.20%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in London

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CentOS

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in London

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CentOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CentOS

CentOS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London -1 3 - -
South London - 2 - -
Central London +2 1 £750 +50.00% 2
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) SAN
3 4 (16.67%) DHCP
4 3 (12.50%) VPN
5 2 (8.33%) FCoE
5 2 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (8.33%) iSCSI
5 2 (8.33%) NAS
5 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.33%) VLAN
6 1 (4.17%) BGP
6 1 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (4.17%) MPLS
6 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Big Data
1 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.50%) GitLab
4 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.17%) Git
5 1 (4.17%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
2 3 (12.50%) Law
2 3 (12.50%) Legal
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) SAN Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
1 3 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (12.50%) CSS
1 3 (12.50%) HTML
1 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) LAMP
3 1 (4.17%) NETCONF
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) RESTCONF
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) YAML
3 1 (4.17%) YANG
3 1 (4.17%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (58.33%) Windows
3 13 (54.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (16.67%) Unix
6 1 (4.17%) Debian
6 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.50%) SIEM
5 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Internal Audit
6 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.33%) Service Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (8.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Bash
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.17%) Go
7 1 (4.17%) Perl
7 1 (4.17%) PHP
7 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) RHCE
2 2 (8.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (25.00%) Docker
4 5 (20.83%) vSphere
5 3 (12.50%) vCloud
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (4.17%) KVM
7 1 (4.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) Nagios
3 4 (16.67%) Puppet
4 3 (12.50%) Kibana
4 3 (12.50%) Terraform
5 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.17%) Icinga
6 1 (4.17%) Nessus
6 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.17%) Salt
6 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 12 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 3 (12.50%) F5
3 3 (12.50%) Hitachi
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.17%) New Relic
5 1 (4.17%) Qualys
5 1 (4.17%) Rackspace
5 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
5 1 (4.17%) Tanium
5 1 (4.17%) Tenable
5 1 (4.17%) Zend