CoreOS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CoreOS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CoreOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CoreOS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £510 -
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

CoreOS 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 2,901 2,204 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.53% 17.35% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,866 1,434 2,182
10th Percentile £162 £180 £166
25th Percentile £250 £250 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 150 322
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.56 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +20.90% -27.27%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £56.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £24.66 £21.50
% change year-on-year +11.52% +14.70% -28.33%

CoreOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CoreOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CoreOS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CoreOS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CoreOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CoreOS

CoreOS
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 CoreOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 2
North of England - 5 £500 - 2
CoreOS
UK

CoreOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) FlexPod
1 5 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 5 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) OCP
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) NFS
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) NetApp
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) VMware