CentOS Contracts in the North West

CentOS Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 112 134 133
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing CentOS 8 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.11% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.71% 0.85% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 19
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile £413 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £638 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +26.18% -19.16% +10.38%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +21 6 £588 - 11
Cumbria - 2 - -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) NAS
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Unix
3 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (25.00%) AIX
4 2 (25.00%) HPUX
4 2 (25.00%) Solaris
4 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) KVM
2 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Packer
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) ZABBIX
4 2 (25.00%) Nagios
4 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (25.00%) Puppet
5 1 (12.50%) Consul
5 1 (12.50%) Grafana
5 1 (12.50%) Istio
5 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (12.50%) linkerd
5 1 (12.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Okta
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk