CentOS Contracts

CentOS Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 519 494
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 +107
Contract jobs citing CentOS 57 76 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.32% 1.28% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 54 138
10th Percentile £351 £313 £400
25th Percentile £407 £456 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £596
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.14% +8.41%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £650
90th Percentile £672 £584 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +18.92% -15.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.50 -

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 4,324 5,921 8,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.68% 13.63% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 3,884 6,187
10th Percentile £200 £190 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -2.70% - +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 433 407
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £18.44
Median hourly rate £22.53 £24.86 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% -41.52% +88.89%
75th Percentile £41.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.98 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £31.13 £33.50
% change year-on-year -38.09% -7.09% +67.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Top 14 Contract 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 4 July 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 +52 53 £550 +10.00% 142
UK excluding London +29 27 £550 +18.92% 63
London +24 24 £550 +8.86% 88
Work from Home +35 15 £550 +12.82% 51
South East +46 11 £550 +5.77% 17
East of England +26 6 £366 - 9
North of England +5 4 £413 -10.76% 11
Midlands +6 3 - - 4
South West +29 2 £488 -11.36% 11
West Midlands +8 2 - - 3
North West +6 2 £425 - 6
Yorkshire 0 2 £383 -17.24% 5
Wales +5 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 13 (22.81%) Apache
2 4 (7.02%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.51%) IIS
3 2 (3.51%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.75%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.75%) JBoss
4 1 (1.75%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) AWS
2 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (7.02%) Azure
4 4 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) GCP
6 2 (3.51%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.51%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.75%) IaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Linode
7 1 (1.75%) OCI
7 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (35.09%) DNS
2 12 (21.05%) Firewall
3 11 (19.30%) DHCP
3 11 (19.30%) SAN
4 7 (12.28%) iSCSI
4 7 (12.28%) VPN
5 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.02%) VLAN
7 3 (5.26%) HTTP
7 3 (5.26%) Network Security
7 3 (5.26%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (5.26%) SSL
8 2 (3.51%) BGP
8 2 (3.51%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (3.51%) FCoE
8 2 (3.51%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (3.51%) MPLS
8 2 (3.51%) SSH
8 2 (3.51%) VSAN
9 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) MySQL
2 5 (8.77%) MariaDB
3 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.26%) Big Data
4 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.75%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.81%) JIRA
3 12 (21.05%) GitLab
4 9 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (12.28%) Git
6 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
7 4 (7.02%) MSI
7 4 (7.02%) Robot Framework
7 4 (7.02%) SonarQube
7 4 (7.02%) TeamCity
8 3 (5.26%) Maven
8 3 (5.26%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.75%) Postman
General
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.02%) Finance
2 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.26%) Banking
3 3 (5.26%) Law
3 3 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (19.30%) Administrator
2 8 (14.04%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (14.04%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (8.77%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Lead
7 3 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) LAMP
1 4 (7.02%) Middleware
1 4 (7.02%) YAML
2 3 (5.26%) .NET
2 3 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (5.26%) CSS
2 3 (5.26%) HTML
2 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.51%) cloud-init
3 2 (3.51%) JSON
3 2 (3.51%) LDAP
3 2 (3.51%) NETCONF
3 2 (3.51%) REST
3 2 (3.51%) RESTCONF
3 2 (3.51%) SOAP
3 2 (3.51%) XML
3 2 (3.51%) YANG
3 2 (3.51%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.77%) PKI
4 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Clustering
5 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.75%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (50.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (49.12%) Windows
4 27 (47.37%) Ubuntu
5 16 (28.07%) Windows Server
6 9 (15.79%) Unix
7 6 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (8.77%) Debian
9 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (5.26%) SUSE
11 2 (3.51%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (3.51%) Rocky
12 1 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) DevOps
2 14 (24.56%) Agile
3 12 (21.05%) Containerisation
3 12 (21.05%) High Availability
4 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.04%) Configuration Management
5 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (10.53%) Batch Scripting
6 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (10.53%) Workflow
7 5 (8.77%) Computer Science
7 5 (8.77%) ITSM
7 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
7 5 (8.77%) Web Development
8 4 (7.02%) Change Management
8 4 (7.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (49.12%) Python
2 16 (28.07%) Bash
3 11 (19.30%) Shell Script
4 8 (14.04%) PHP
4 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.02%) Perl
6 4 (7.02%) SQL
7 3 (5.26%) C#
8 2 (3.51%) Go
8 2 (3.51%) Java
8 2 (3.51%) Ruby
9 1 (1.75%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Degree
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) PCI DSS
2 4 (7.02%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) SLA
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (31.58%) Active Directory
3 15 (26.32%) Docker
4 9 (15.79%) vSphere
5 6 (10.53%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.26%) vCloud
6 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.26%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (3.51%) VirtualBox
7 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.75%) Firmware
8 1 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (49.12%) Ansible
2 15 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 15 (26.32%) Terraform
3 13 (22.81%) Puppet
4 8 (14.04%) Nagios
5 7 (12.28%) Progress Chef
6 5 (8.77%) Prometheus
7 4 (7.02%) Grafana
7 4 (7.02%) WMI
8 3 (5.26%) Kibana
8 3 (5.26%) Packer
8 3 (5.26%) Salt
9 2 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (3.51%) Icinga
9 2 (3.51%) Nessus
9 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (3.51%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) VMware
2 22 (38.60%) Red Hat
3 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.77%) Cisco
5 5 (8.77%) Dell
5 5 (8.77%) Oracle
6 4 (7.02%) IBM
7 3 (5.26%) F5
7 3 (5.26%) Hitachi
7 3 (5.26%) MuleSoft
7 3 (5.26%) Rackspace
8 2 (3.51%) HP
8 2 (3.51%) New Relic
8 2 (3.51%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.51%) Sophos
8 2 (3.51%) Zend
9 1 (1.75%) Actifio
9 1 (1.75%) Black Duck
9 1 (1.75%) Okta