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 24 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 332 440
Rank change year-on-year +3 +108 -35
Contract jobs citing CentOS 49 87 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.66% 2.30% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 65 47
10th Percentile £300 £391 £425
25th Percentile £366 £400 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.68% +14.20%
75th Percentile £553 £625 £638
90th Percentile £637 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £25.18
25th Percentile - - £38.24
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £112.00 - £61.50

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 2,949 3,785 6,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.55% 17.72% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 2,482 4,184
10th Percentile £183 £163 £158
25th Percentile £278 £233 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 287 409
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.51 £12.11
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.93 £15.96
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.88 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% +108.55% +30.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £76.53 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £45.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +15.52% +91.89% +36.63%

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 24 September 2024.

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 24 September 2024. 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
South East +28 18 £520 -9.57% 8
Midlands +24 14 £300 -47.83% 6
West Midlands - 14 £300 - 5
South West +10 11 £525 -3.67% 4
North of England +25 7 £438 -7.89% 6
North West +30 6 £425 +13.33% 4
Yorkshire +15 1 £675 +42.11% 2
Wales 0 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 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) JBoss
3 1 (2.04%) nginx
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.04%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) AWS
1 11 (22.45%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) BlazeMeter
3 7 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) IaaS
4 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (32.65%) DHCP
1 16 (32.65%) DNS
2 13 (26.53%) BGP
2 13 (26.53%) Ethernet VPN
2 13 (26.53%) MPLS
2 13 (26.53%) VPN
3 9 (18.37%) Firewall
4 8 (16.33%) RTP
4 8 (16.33%) VoIP
5 5 (10.20%) HTTP
5 5 (10.20%) INAP
5 5 (10.20%) Intelligent Network
5 5 (10.20%) SAN
6 4 (8.16%) Skype
7 3 (6.12%) LAN
7 3 (6.12%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (6.12%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (6.12%) SSL
7 3 (6.12%) VSAN
7 3 (6.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 13 (26.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (30.61%) JIRA
2 8 (16.33%) JMeter
2 8 (16.33%) Locust
2 8 (16.33%) Robot Framework
2 8 (16.33%) Selenium
2 8 (16.33%) TestCafe
3 7 (14.29%) GitLab
4 3 (6.12%) Git
4 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.12%) Maven
5 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Telecoms
3 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Automation Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Senior
4 6 (12.24%) Administrator
4 6 (12.24%) Automation Tester
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Tester
5 4 (8.16%) Engineering Specialist
5 4 (8.16%) QA Specialist
6 3 (6.12%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.12%) Server Administrator
6 3 (6.12%) Telecoms Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Telecoms Test Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (6.12%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) NETCONF
1 13 (26.53%) REST
1 13 (26.53%) RESTCONF
1 13 (26.53%) SOAP
1 13 (26.53%) YANG
2 10 (20.41%) LDAP
3 8 (16.33%) Taurus
4 6 (12.24%) Gherkin
4 6 (12.24%) Kafka
5 3 (6.12%) YAML
6 2 (4.08%) XML
7 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.04%) Keycloak
7 1 (2.04%) LAMP
7 1 (2.04%) Loki
7 1 (2.04%) OpenID
7 1 (2.04%) React
7 1 (2.04%) Spring
7 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.04%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) PKI
1 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (44.90%) Windows
3 20 (40.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (38.78%) Windows Server
5 15 (30.61%) Unix
6 14 (28.57%) Ubuntu
7 6 (12.24%) Debian
8 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
9 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (4.08%) SUSE
11 1 (2.04%) AIX
11 1 (2.04%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (2.04%) Fedora
11 1 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (2.04%) Rocky
11 1 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
2 14 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 13 (26.53%) Workflow
4 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
4 11 (22.45%) ITIL
5 10 (20.41%) Agile
6 8 (16.33%) Build Automation
6 8 (16.33%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (16.33%) Performance Testing
7 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.29%) Scrum
8 6 (12.24%) API Design
8 6 (12.24%) BDD
8 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.24%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (12.24%) OO
8 6 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (12.24%) Test Strategy
9 5 (10.20%) Patch Management
9 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) Python
2 18 (36.73%) SQL
3 11 (22.45%) PowerShell
4 9 (18.37%) Bash
5 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.08%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (12.24%) Degree
5 4 (8.16%) MCSE
5 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.08%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (4.08%) RHCE
7 1 (2.04%) CCNA
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.04%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
2 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (16.33%) vSphere
4 6 (12.24%) VMware NSX
5 5 (10.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (6.12%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Ansible
2 10 (20.41%) Terraform
3 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
4 6 (12.24%) Puppet
4 6 (12.24%) vCenter Server
5 4 (8.16%) Nessus
6 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (6.12%) WSUS
7 2 (4.08%) HAProxy
7 2 (4.08%) SELinux
7 2 (4.08%) yum
8 1 (2.04%) Argo
8 1 (2.04%) Grafana
8 1 (2.04%) Graylog
8 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.04%) Proxmox
8 1 (2.04%) Rsyslog
8 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Red Hat
2 13 (26.53%) VMware
3 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
4 8 (16.33%) Cisco
4 8 (16.33%) Dialogic
5 5 (10.20%) Metaswitch
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle
6 2 (4.08%) Sophos
7 1 (2.04%) Actifio
7 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.04%) Google
7 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) Splunk