CentOS Contracts in the Midlands

CentOS Linux
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 108 131 153
Rank change year-on-year +23 +22 +49
Contract jobs citing CentOS 3 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.073% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.19% 0.48% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile - - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.85%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £730
England median daily rate £638 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +26.18% -19.16% +10.38%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 253 419 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 15.20% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 268 433
10th Percentile £150 £145 £158
25th Percentile £200 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £377 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.74% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £558
90th Percentile £578 £612 £688
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.50 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.05% +3.59%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £19.98
90th Percentile £24.21 - £30.61
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the Midlands

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the Midlands

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +14 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Rocky
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Log Aggregation
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nessus
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Sophos
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft