CentOS Contracts in the UK excluding London

CentOS Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 370 344
Rank change year-on-year +73 -26 +38
Contract jobs citing CentOS 42 29 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.14% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.90% 0.88% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 69
10th Percentile £413 - £456
25th Percentile £506 £313 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £394 £593
Median % change year-on-year +65.08% -33.54% +6.52%
75th Percentile £738 £469 £650
90th Percentile £750 £666 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year - +28.79% -74.70%
UK median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.74
% change year-on-year - +20.10% -72.87%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,206 3,284 4,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.25% 15.82% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 2,182 3,233
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £243 £258 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £504
% change year-on-year +1.50% -7.14% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 321 337
10th Percentile £15.30 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.27 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.69 £22.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -43.59% +73.33%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +35 23 £725 +56.76% 11
South East +57 13 £575 - 9
Yorkshire +12 13 £725 +56.76% 1
North West +19 8 £588 - 10
Midlands +20 3 - - 2
West Midlands +15 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £750 -
South West +39 1 £425 -43.33% 9
Scotland +8 1 £685 +110.77% 4
Wales +4 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (16.67%) nginx
1 7 (16.67%) Traefik
2 3 (7.14%) Confluence
3 2 (4.76%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) AWS
2 20 (47.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (26.19%) Azure
3 11 (26.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (23.81%) AWS Fargate
5 9 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 8 (19.05%) SaaS
7 7 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (16.67%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.76%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.38%) GCP
9 1 (2.38%) GitHub
9 1 (2.38%) Linode
9 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (38.10%) DNS
2 11 (26.19%) TCP/IP
3 7 (16.67%) DHCP
4 5 (11.90%) Firewall
5 4 (9.52%) SAN
5 4 (9.52%) VPN
6 3 (7.14%) SSL
6 3 (7.14%) VLAN
7 2 (4.76%) HTTP
7 2 (4.76%) NAS
7 2 (4.76%) Network Security
7 2 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (2.38%) BGP
8 1 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (2.38%) LAN
8 1 (2.38%) MPLS
8 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 20 (47.62%) GitLab
3 6 (14.29%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.14%) Military
3 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Senior
2 18 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (35.71%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Administrator
7 3 (7.14%) Lead
7 3 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Unix Administrator
8 2 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Engineering Specialist
9 1 (2.38%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (2.38%) Solaris Administrator
9 1 (2.38%) Systems Integrator
9 1 (2.38%) Test Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) cloud-init
2 10 (23.81%) Kafka
3 9 (21.43%) Keycloak
4 3 (7.14%) YAML
5 2 (4.76%) LDAP
6 1 (2.38%) JSON
6 1 (2.38%) NETCONF
6 1 (2.38%) REST
6 1 (2.38%) RESTCONF
6 1 (2.38%) RESTful
6 1 (2.38%) SOAP
6 1 (2.38%) Web Services
6 1 (2.38%) XML
6 1 (2.38%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) PKI
2 8 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (54.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 23 (54.76%) Unix
3 17 (40.48%) Ubuntu
4 15 (35.71%) Windows
5 11 (26.19%) Windows Server
6 10 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (9.52%) AIX
7 4 (9.52%) HPUX
7 4 (9.52%) Solaris
8 2 (4.76%) Debian
9 1 (2.38%) Fedora
9 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.38%) Rocky
9 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) DevOps
2 22 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (38.10%) Agile
5 14 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (23.81%) Cloud Security
7 10 (23.81%) Secrets Management
8 9 (21.43%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 9 (21.43%) Identity Management
8 9 (21.43%) Observability
8 9 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
9 8 (19.05%) DevSecOps
10 7 (16.67%) Application Packaging
10 7 (16.67%) Change Control
10 7 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
11 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
11 5 (11.90%) Patch Management
12 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (9.52%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) Bash
1 26 (61.90%) Python
2 18 (42.86%) Go
3 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.76%) Perl
5 2 (4.76%) SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Korn
6 1 (2.38%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (69.05%) Security Cleared
2 21 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (23.81%) AWS Certification
4 6 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) NCSC
2 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (19.05%) vSphere
3 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.14%) Docker
4 2 (4.76%) KVM
4 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (71.43%) Terraform
2 19 (45.24%) Ansible
2 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 19 (45.24%) Packer
3 12 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 11 (26.19%) ZABBIX
5 10 (23.81%) Grafana
6 9 (21.43%) Consul
6 9 (21.43%) Istio
6 9 (21.43%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (21.43%) linkerd
6 9 (21.43%) Nessus
6 9 (21.43%) Rancher
7 8 (19.05%) Puppet
8 7 (16.67%) HAProxy
8 7 (16.67%) vCenter Server
9 4 (9.52%) Progress Chef
10 2 (4.76%) Nagios
10 2 (4.76%) Oracle ZFS
11 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Red Hat
2 14 (33.33%) VMware
3 9 (21.43%) Okta
3 9 (21.43%) Splunk
4 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 7 (16.67%) Apple
5 7 (16.67%) ESET
6 3 (7.14%) Cisco
6 3 (7.14%) HP
7 2 (4.76%) Dell
7 2 (4.76%) IBM
7 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.76%) Sophos