Rocky Contracts in London

Rocky Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Rocky skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rocky over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 390 -
Rank change year-on-year +51 - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.006% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.93% 0.047% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £538 £638 -
% change year-on-year -15.69% - -

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,502 2,117 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.97% 11.87% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,510 2,826
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £629 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 69 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.30 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Rocky in London

Rocky
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rocky in London.

Daily rate trend for Rocky in London

Rocky
Contract 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 Rocky within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London - 3 £513 -
Rocky
England

Rocky
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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
2 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) GCP
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DHCP
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) FIX Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) FIX Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Support
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Hedge funds
2 2 (14.29%) Eurex
3 1 (7.14%) Bitcoin
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (28.57%) CentOS
4 2 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Review
5 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Server Management
5 2 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Ansible
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Consul
3 3 (21.43%) Packer
4 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 2 (14.29%) Rundeck
4 2 (14.29%) ZABBIX
5 1 (7.14%) Nagios
5 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
1 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Bloomberg
2 2 (14.29%) CQG
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) ION Trading
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Patsystems
2 2 (14.29%) Reuters
2 2 (14.29%) Trayport
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds