Rocky Contracts in the Thames Valley

Rocky Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Rocky skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rocky over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.066% - 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.42% - 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £700
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £363 - £700

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 238 334 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.75% 12.57% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 221 303
10th Percentile £200 £205 £200
25th Percentile £315 £265 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% -1.05%
75th Percentile £572 £590 £575
90th Percentile £700 £608 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +2.08% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 14
10th Percentile - £16.19 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £18.19
Median hourly rate £14.66 £47.50 £35.85
Median % change year-on-year -69.14% +32.50% +104.86%
75th Percentile £17.93 £59.00 £58.59
90th Percentile £23.12 £61.60 £77.96
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +223.53%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Rocky in the Thames Valley

Rocky
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 Rocky within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £363 - 1
Rocky
South East

Rocky
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 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware