CentOS Contracts in Manchester

CentOS Linux
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 73 94 96
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing CentOS 6 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.13% 1.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.29% 1.09% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 17
10th Percentile - - £563
25th Percentile £413 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - £688
North West median daily rate £588 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 140 184 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.12% 12.13% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 134 203
10th Percentile £174 £300 £196
25th Percentile £212 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 £663 £619
90th Percentile £611 £850 £673
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile - £17.14 £13.96
25th Percentile - £17.72 £26.00
Median hourly rate £13.00 £25.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.51% -8.18% +50.68%
75th Percentile £14.60 - £39.80
90th Percentile £23.24 £61.60 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in Manchester

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in Manchester

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in Manchester

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) cloud-init
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
5 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Go
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Packer
3 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (50.00%) ZABBIX
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Nagios
5 1 (16.67%) Consul
5 1 (16.67%) Grafana
5 1 (16.67%) Istio
5 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (16.67%) linkerd
5 1 (16.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
1 2 (33.33%) HP
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk