CentOS Contracts in the North of England

CentOS Linux
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for CentOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CentOS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 186 221
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 -41
Contract jobs citing CentOS 11 33 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.56% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.51% 3.59% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 22
10th Percentile - £378 £575
25th Percentile £456 £527 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £469 £650 £650
90th Percentile £600 £693 £688
England median daily rate £505 £625 £566
% change year-on-year -19.16% +10.38% +19.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%

All Operating Systems
North of England

CentOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 728 919 1,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.22% 15.71% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 660 917
10th Percentile £165 £167 £140
25th Percentile £275 £247 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £675 £633
England median daily rate £463 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 60 81
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.44
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.10 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -43.06% +59.30% +3.76%
75th Percentile £20.00 £43.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £25.25 £49.52 £42.20
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the North of England

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the North of England

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the North of England

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the North of England

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +29 8 £463 -17.04%
North West -7 3 - - 5
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (27.27%) nginx
2 2 (18.18%) Traefik
3 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
2 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
2 4 (36.36%) Route 53
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Audit Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) cloud-init
2 1 (9.09%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Debian
3 1 (9.09%) Fedora
3 1 (9.09%) Rocky
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) Packer
1 6 (54.55%) Puppet
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Rancher
3 3 (27.27%) HAProxy
3 3 (27.27%) ZABBIX
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Consul
4 2 (18.18%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (18.18%) Graphite
4 2 (18.18%) Istio
4 2 (18.18%) linkerd
4 2 (18.18%) Podman
4 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (9.09%) Grafana
5 1 (9.09%) Graylog
5 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
5 1 (9.09%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) PagerDuty
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat