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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 151 137
Rank change year-on-year +41 -14 +15
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.11% 0.30% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.64% 1.73% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 19
10th Percentile £424 £469 £450
25th Percentile £441 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +1.85% +4.10%
75th Percentile £541 £631 £594
90th Percentile £561 £706 £628
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +2.13%

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 314 577 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.88% 17.54% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 380 443
10th Percentile £200 £178 £189
25th Percentile £225 £405 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +3.37% +21.21%
75th Percentile £613 £593 £623
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 86 75
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.37
25th Percentile £18.51 £48.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +19.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £43.93
% change year-on-year -21.96% -44.96% +99.68%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the South West over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 June 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
Gloucestershire +20 1 £550 -13.73% 9
Bristol - 1 £425 -
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) npm
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat