CentOS Contracts in the Thames Valley

CentOS Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 99 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing CentOS 3 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% - 0.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.43% - 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.15%
75th Percentile £497 - £566
90th Percentile £499 - £623
South East median daily rate £575 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -18.00%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 391 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.90% 14.56% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 281 318
10th Percentile £213 £193 £213
25th Percentile £329 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £19.13 £19.52
Median hourly rate £14.20 £38.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -63.35% -20.43% +143.50%
75th Percentile £18.58 £57.13 £62.97
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £78.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the Thames Valley

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the Thames Valley

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the Thames Valley

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Unix DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
1 1 (33.33%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Korn
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) HP