CentOS Contract Job Trends

CentOS Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CentOS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 500 498
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +108
Contract jobs citing CentOS 61 73 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.37% 1.35% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 97
10th Percentile £328 £299 £387
25th Percentile £423 £395 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £609 £528 £625
90th Percentile £644 £599 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,462 5,414 7,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.55% 14.16% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,854 3,463 5,223
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £579 £625
90th Percentile £672 £675 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 274 368
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.53 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.07 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.25 £46.69
Median % change year-on-year -48.93% +5.48% +95.27%
75th Percentile £58.44 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -52.10% +14.43% +108.55%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CentOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CentOS

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CentOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CentOS

CentOS
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 September 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
England +24 59 £550 +10.00% 28
London +28 26 £525 +5.00% 11
UK excluding London -15 26 £550 +10.00% 21
South East +20 12 £550 +5.77% 8
Work from Home 0 11 £500 -0.50% 8
East of England - 9 £441 - 2
South West +16 4 £550 +4.76% 7
Yorkshire -10 1 £365 -45.93% 2
North of England -18 1 £365 -16.57% 4

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (24.59%) Apache
2 4 (6.56%) OpenStack
3 3 (4.92%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.28%) Confluence
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (3.28%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.64%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) AWS
2 7 (11.48%) GCP
3 6 (9.84%) Azure
4 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (8.20%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (8.20%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.92%) GitHub
6 3 (4.92%) npm
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.64%) IaaS
8 1 (1.64%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.15%) DNS
2 10 (16.39%) SAN
3 8 (13.11%) Firewall
4 6 (9.84%) iSCSI
5 5 (8.20%) DHCP
5 5 (8.20%) VPN
6 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.92%) AMQP
7 3 (4.92%) NAS
7 3 (4.92%) VSAN
8 2 (3.28%) BGP
8 2 (3.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (3.28%) HTTP
8 2 (3.28%) MPLS
8 2 (3.28%) Network Security
8 2 (3.28%) SSL
8 2 (3.28%) VLAN
9 1 (1.64%) FCoE
9 1 (1.64%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.56%) MySQL
4 3 (4.92%) MariaDB
4 3 (4.92%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.28%) Big Data
5 2 (3.28%) InfluxDB
5 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Jenkins
2 12 (19.67%) GitLab
3 11 (18.03%) JIRA
4 7 (11.48%) Git
5 6 (9.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket
6 4 (6.56%) MSI
6 4 (6.56%) Robot Framework
6 4 (6.56%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.92%) Maven
7 3 (4.92%) Vagrant
8 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.28%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.64%) Postman
General
1 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Financial Institution
3 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Law
4 2 (3.28%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Administrator
2 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Linux Administrator
3 8 (13.11%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (9.84%) Developer
5 6 (9.84%) Integration Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 6 (9.84%) Senior
6 5 (8.20%) Lead
6 5 (8.20%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (8.20%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Linux Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Keycloak
1 6 (9.84%) Middleware
2 5 (8.20%) cloud-init
2 5 (8.20%) CSS
2 5 (8.20%) HTML
2 5 (8.20%) Kafka
3 4 (6.56%) React
4 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.92%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (4.92%) Electron
4 3 (4.92%) JNI
4 3 (4.92%) LAMP
4 3 (4.92%) Node.js
5 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.28%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.28%) JSON
5 2 (3.28%) NETCONF
5 2 (3.28%) RESTCONF
5 2 (3.28%) YANG
5 2 (3.28%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.75%) PKI
3 8 (13.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (11.48%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (9.84%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.92%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
7 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.64%) Eurex
8 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 36 (59.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (40.98%) Ubuntu
4 24 (39.34%) Windows
5 17 (27.87%) Windows Server
6 16 (26.23%) Unix
7 8 (13.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (6.56%) Mac OS
9 3 (4.92%) Debian
9 3 (4.92%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.64%) Rocky
10 1 (1.64%) SUSE
10 1 (1.64%) VMS
10 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) DevOps
2 20 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 17 (27.87%) Containerisation
4 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (21.31%) Agile
6 12 (19.67%) High Availability
7 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (14.75%) Configuration Management
10 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
11 7 (11.48%) Observability
12 6 (9.84%) Batch Scripting
12 6 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (9.84%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (9.84%) ITSM
12 6 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (9.84%) Workflow
13 5 (8.20%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) Bash
3 14 (22.95%) Shell Script
4 12 (19.67%) PowerShell
5 8 (13.11%) Java
5 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.11%) PHP
6 7 (11.48%) Go
7 5 (8.20%) C
7 5 (8.20%) Perl
8 3 (4.92%) C#
8 3 (4.92%) SQL
9 2 (3.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) DV Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) RHCE
5 4 (6.56%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.56%) Degree
6 3 (4.92%) RHCSA
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) PCI DSS
2 5 (8.20%) NCSC
3 4 (6.56%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (27.87%) Active Directory
3 14 (22.95%) Docker
4 9 (14.75%) vSphere
5 7 (11.48%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.28%) KVM
6 2 (3.28%) vCloud
6 2 (3.28%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.28%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (1.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (49.18%) Ansible
2 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 18 (29.51%) Terraform
3 8 (13.11%) Nagios
3 8 (13.11%) Prometheus
3 8 (13.11%) Puppet
4 7 (11.48%) Grafana
4 7 (11.48%) Progress Chef
5 5 (8.20%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (8.20%) Packer
6 4 (6.56%) WMI
7 3 (4.92%) Salt
8 2 (3.28%) Icinga
8 2 (3.28%) Kibana
8 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.28%) VxRail
9 1 (1.64%) Argo
9 1 (1.64%) Nessus
9 1 (1.64%) SCCM
9 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) VMware
2 23 (37.70%) Red Hat
3 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
3 12 (19.67%) Oracle
4 7 (11.48%) ServiceNow
4 7 (11.48%) Splunk
5 5 (8.20%) Okta
6 4 (6.56%) Cisco
7 3 (4.92%) MuleSoft
7 3 (4.92%) Rackspace
8 2 (3.28%) Dell
8 2 (3.28%) IBM
8 2 (3.28%) New Relic
8 2 (3.28%) Zend
9 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.64%) EMC
9 1 (1.64%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.64%) Qualys
9 1 (1.64%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.64%) Remedy