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

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 132 124
Rank change year-on-year +31 -8 +36
Contract jobs citing CentOS 3 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.075% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.26% 0.60% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - - £307
25th Percentile £525 - £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -22.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £519
90th Percentile - - £538
South East median daily rate £550 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -23.08%

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 239 332 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.64% 12.44% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 219 300
10th Percentile £200 £205 £200
25th Percentile £315 £273 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.53%
75th Percentile £572 £595 £575
90th Percentile £700 £608 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £478 £450
% change year-on-year +2.62% +6.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 13
10th Percentile - £16.19 -
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £18.08
Median hourly rate £14.66 £47.50 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year -69.14% +103.86% +33.14%
75th Percentile £17.93 £59.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £23.12 £61.60 £68.13
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +218.84%

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 29 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
Berkshire - 3 £550 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Sequence Diagram
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft