CentOS Contracts in the South East

CentOS Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 146 203 200
Rank change year-on-year +57 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing CentOS 13 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.036% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.54% 0.20% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 10
10th Percentile £500 - £473
25th Percentile £519 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.00%
75th Percentile £675 - £610
90th Percentile - - £638
England median daily rate £638 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +26.18% -19.16% +10.38%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
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 South East

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the South East

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the South East

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the South East

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the South East

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the South East 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
Hampshire +34 10 £613 - 2
Thames Valley - 3 £488 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £488 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
1 7 (53.85%) OpenShift
1 7 (53.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (7.69%) MPLS
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Integrator
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Unix DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) NETCONF
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) RESTCONF
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
1 1 (7.69%) XML
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
1 1 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (53.85%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) Ubuntu
3 9 (69.23%) Windows
4 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
4 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (23.08%) Unix
6 2 (15.38%) AIX
6 2 (15.38%) HPUX
6 2 (15.38%) Solaris
7 1 (7.69%) Fedora
7 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Application Packaging
2 7 (53.85%) Change Control
2 7 (53.85%) DevSecOps
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Batch Scripting
4 1 (7.69%) Capacity Management
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
4 1 (7.69%) Service Management
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Web Development
4 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Korn
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) vSphere
2 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Ansible
2 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 7 (53.85%) Nessus
3 7 (53.85%) Terraform
3 7 (53.85%) vCenter Server
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 2 (15.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Red Hat
2 8 (61.54%) VMware
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) HP