CentOS Contracts in the North of England

CentOS Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 143 174 190
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 +15
Contract jobs citing CentOS 23 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.23% 0.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.13% 1.52% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 24
10th Percentile £413 - £365
25th Percentile £609 £456 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £463 £638
Median % change year-on-year +56.76% -27.45% +2.00%
75th Percentile £750 £469 £650
90th Percentile - £600 £696
England median daily rate £638 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +26.18% -19.16% +10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.74
% change year-on-year - +20.10% -72.87%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 557 725 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.90% 15.21% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 652
10th Percentile £163 £167 £165
25th Percentile £210 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 80 57
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.95 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -44.25% +63.35%
75th Percentile £19.75 £19.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.50 £30.68 £49.52
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Yorkshire +13 13 £725 +56.76% 1
North West +22 8 £588 - 11
North East - 2 £750 -
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 7 (30.43%) nginx
1 7 (30.43%) Traefik
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (86.96%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (47.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (43.48%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (43.48%) AWS Fargate
5 9 (39.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (39.13%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.04%) Azure
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
8 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
8 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 10 (43.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.70%) DHCP
3 2 (8.70%) NAS
3 2 (8.70%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) Firewall
4 1 (4.35%) LAN
4 1 (4.35%) Network Security
4 1 (4.35%) VLAN
4 1 (4.35%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) GitLab
1 18 (78.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Senior
1 15 (65.22%) Senior DevOps
2 14 (60.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (47.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) cloud-init
2 10 (43.48%) Kafka
3 9 (39.13%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) PKI
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (86.96%) Unix
3 19 (82.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
4 3 (13.04%) Windows
5 2 (8.70%) AIX
5 2 (8.70%) HPUX
5 2 (8.70%) Solaris
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 18 (78.26%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (43.48%) Secrets Management
5 9 (39.13%) Cloud Security
5 9 (39.13%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 9 (39.13%) Identity Management
5 9 (39.13%) Observability
5 9 (39.13%) Static Application Security Testing
6 7 (30.43%) Mobile Device Management
7 6 (26.09%) Agile
8 3 (13.04%) High Availability
8 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
8 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
9 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
9 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (8.70%) Strategic Thinking
9 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Bash
1 21 (91.30%) Python
2 18 (78.26%) Go
3 2 (8.70%) Perl
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (69.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (39.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) NCSC
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) KVM
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (91.30%) Terraform
2 18 (78.26%) Packer
3 12 (52.17%) Prometheus
4 11 (47.83%) ZABBIX
5 10 (43.48%) Grafana
5 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
6 9 (39.13%) Consul
6 9 (39.13%) Istio
6 9 (39.13%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (39.13%) linkerd
6 9 (39.13%) Rancher
7 7 (30.43%) HAProxy
8 5 (21.74%) Ansible
9 2 (8.70%) Nagios
9 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
9 2 (8.70%) Puppet
10 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Okta
1 9 (39.13%) Splunk
2 7 (30.43%) Apple
2 7 (30.43%) ESET
3 4 (17.39%) VMware
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.70%) Dell
5 2 (8.70%) HP
5 2 (8.70%) IBM
5 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco