CentOS Contracts in the North East

CentOS Linux
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 36 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.63% - 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.44% - 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £703
25th Percentile - - £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.82%
75th Percentile - - £756
90th Percentile - - £768
England median daily rate £638 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +26.18% -19.16% +10.38%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 40 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.06% 11.83% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 64
10th Percentile £180 £171 £205
25th Percentile £188 £190 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £408 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.25% -22.38% +85.84%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £747
90th Percentile £615 £650 £775
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -46.15% +116.67%
75th Percentile £19.38 £18.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the North East

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the North East

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £750 -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Packer
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Rancher
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) ESET
1 2 (100.00%) Okta
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk