Rocky Contract Job Trends in the South East

Rocky Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 161 185
Rank change year-on-year -62 +24 +24
Contract jobs citing Rocky 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.060% 0.029% 0.022%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.52% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £613 - -
25th Percentile £669 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year +113.79% - -
75th Percentile £850 £369 -
90th Percentile £888 - -
England median daily rate £600 £431 £500
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.75% -18.03%

All Operating Systems
South East

Rocky 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 768 607 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.57% 17.36% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 431 531
10th Percentile £204 £190 £203
25th Percentile £350 £250 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £582
90th Percentile £643 £638 £638
England median daily rate £468 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 49 39
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.94 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £24.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +105.19% -66.75% +3.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £63.60 £70.75
England median hourly rate £34.68 £25.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +38.70% -52.38% +14.43%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rocky relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Rocky job vacancy trend in the South East

Rocky
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Rocky.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Rocky

Rocky
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rocky in the South East over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Rocky in the South East

Rocky
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 Rocky within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Thames Valley -33 3 £825 +127.59% 6
Berkshire - 3 £825 - 4
Hampshire - 1 £600 -
Rocky
England

Rocky
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Podman
2 2 (50.00%) Check_MK
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle