CentOS Contracts in the UK excluding London

CentOS Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CentOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CentOS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 341 381
Rank change year-on-year -16 +40 -31
Contract jobs citing CentOS 31 106 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.44% 0.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.95% 2.30% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 70 94
10th Percentile £300 £457 £400
25th Percentile £313 £481 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £469 £650 £649
90th Percentile £600 £700 £696
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.47 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -74.70% +278.36%
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

CentOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,269 4,603 5,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 19.27% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,170 3,207 3,894
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £258 £250 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.84% +0.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 338 466
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.34 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +48.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £60.68 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.72 £63.13
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.66% +71.11% +26.76%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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
North of England +10 11 £463 -27.45% 7
Yorkshire +23 8 £463 -17.04% 1
Scotland +36 6 £325 -54.55% 1
Midlands +22 5 £300 -57.14% 6
West Midlands +13 5 £300 -57.14% 3
South West +5 5 £750 +38.25% 11
East of England +7 3 - - 4
North West +7 3 - - 6
Wales +12 1 - - 1
South East -2 1 - - 10
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 (22.58%) nginx
2 6 (19.35%) IIS
3 4 (12.90%) Apache Solr
4 2 (6.45%) Traefik
5 1 (3.23%) Apache
5 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
1 7 (22.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
3 5 (16.13%) Route 53
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (12.90%) AWS KMS
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.90%) DHCP
3 4 (12.90%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (12.90%) HTTPS
3 4 (12.90%) IPsec
3 4 (12.90%) LAN
3 4 (12.90%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (12.90%) SAN
3 4 (12.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Couchbase
1 4 (12.90%) MySQL
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) GitLab
2 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Legal
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Administrator
4 4 (12.90%) Server Administrator
4 4 (12.90%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Audit Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Architect
6 1 (3.23%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) JSON
1 4 (12.90%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (12.90%) YAML
2 2 (6.45%) cloud-init
3 1 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Data Centre
2 6 (19.35%) PKI
3 5 (16.13%) Management Information System
4 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.45%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (45.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (35.48%) Windows
3 11 (35.48%) Windows Server
4 9 (29.03%) Ubuntu
5 8 (25.81%) Debian
6 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.23%) Fedora
7 1 (3.23%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Configuration Management
3 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Cost Reduction
5 6 (19.35%) Load Balancing
5 6 (19.35%) Task Automation
6 5 (16.13%) Microservices
6 5 (16.13%) Patch Management
7 4 (12.90%) Change Control
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.90%) Information Security
7 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.90%) Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (12.90%) SDLC
7 4 (12.90%) Software Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Bash
2 9 (29.03%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.90%) PHP
5 2 (6.45%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) Ruby
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) MCSA
1 6 (19.35%) MCSE
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (19.35%) RHCT
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (3.23%) LPIC
3 1 (3.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) HIPAA
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.90%) NIST
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (22.58%) KVM
4 6 (19.35%) Docker
4 6 (19.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.90%) VMware NSX
5 4 (12.90%) VMware Server
5 4 (12.90%) vSphere
6 1 (3.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Ansible
2 10 (32.26%) Terraform
3 7 (22.58%) Puppet
4 6 (19.35%) Packer
5 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
5 4 (12.90%) Rancher
5 4 (12.90%) vCenter Server
6 3 (9.68%) HAProxy
6 3 (9.68%) ZABBIX
7 2 (6.45%) Consul
7 2 (6.45%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (6.45%) Graphite
7 2 (6.45%) Istio
7 2 (6.45%) linkerd
7 2 (6.45%) Podman
8 1 (3.23%) Grafana
8 1 (3.23%) Graylog
8 1 (3.23%) Proxmox
8 1 (3.23%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) VMware
2 11 (35.48%) Red Hat
3 6 (19.35%) Citrix
4 4 (12.90%) Google
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.90%) Splunk
5 2 (6.45%) PagerDuty