CoreOS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

CoreOS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CoreOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CoreOS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.039% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £500 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Operating Systems
North of England

CoreOS 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 755 541 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.85% 16.09% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 321 470
10th Percentile £141 £170 £160
25th Percentile £190 £230 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £506
90th Percentile £613 £638 £588
England median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 63
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +2.29% -31.85%
75th Percentile £41.94 £27.80 £24.50
90th Percentile £68.70 £66.46 £48.00
England median hourly rate £22.54 £47.00 £25.06
% change year-on-year -52.05% +87.57% -3.63%

CoreOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CoreOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

CoreOS job vacancy trend in the North of England

CoreOS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CoreOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CoreOS

CoreOS
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 CoreOS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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 - 2 £500 - 1
CoreOS
England

CoreOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) FlexPod
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) OCP
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware