Rocky Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Rocky Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 349 390
Rank change year-on-year -109 +41 +43
Contract jobs citing Rocky 10 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.014% 0.024%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.33% 0.083% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +65.52% -27.50% -28.57%
75th Percentile - £369 £538
90th Percentile - - £628
UK median daily rate £600 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -25.93%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,043 2,412 3,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.48% 16.81% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,897 1,540 2,179
10th Percentile £180 £181 £179
25th Percentile £273 £250 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -
75th Percentile £556 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +0.11% -2.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 186 365
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.12 £12.45
25th Percentile £17.82 £16.95 £15.65
Median hourly rate £26.00 £19.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.34% -45.51% +16.67%
75th Percentile £64.06 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £22.78 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.10% -8.88% -41.18%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Rocky job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Rocky
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Rocky
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 Rocky within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
South West - 5 - - 3
East of England - 4 £600 - 3
Scotland - 1 - -
Rocky
UK

Rocky
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (20.00%) SSH
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Backup Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) NetApp Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Backup Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (50.00%) CentOS
4 4 (40.00%) Debian
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (10.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Open Source
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Runbook
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Go
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) NFS
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) iptables
3 1 (10.00%) KVM
3 1 (10.00%) Samba
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (10.00%) Nagios
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Rundeck
4 1 (10.00%) SELinux
4 1 (10.00%) systemd
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) NetApp
1 4 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk