CentOS Contracts in Scotland

CentOS Linux
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 115 123 155
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 +6
Contract jobs citing CentOS 1 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 1.67% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - - £670
25th Percentile £668 £313 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £325 £715
Median % change year-on-year +110.77% -54.55% +78.75%
75th Percentile £703 £338 £723
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +13.64%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in Scotland

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in Scotland

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in Scotland

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -2 1 £685 +110.77% 4
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform