CentOS Contracts in the South West

CentOS Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 110 152 143
Rank change year-on-year +42 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing CentOS 1 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.060% 0.16% 0.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.32% 1.01% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 23
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile £413 £725 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £545
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +37.61% +6.34%
75th Percentile £438 £775 £619
90th Percentile - - £695
England median daily rate £638 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +26.18% -19.16% +10.38%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 317 495 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.89% 15.47% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 357 520
10th Percentile £200 £170 £166
25th Percentile £250 £245 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 69 85
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £49.68
Median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - - £78.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the South West

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the South West

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the South West

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol - 1 £425 - 1
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
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
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat