CoreOS Contract Job Trends

CoreOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CoreOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 518 -
Rank change year-on-year -98 - -
Contract jobs citing CoreOS 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.003% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.025% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,735 4,076 5,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 13.92% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 2,717 3,961
10th Percentile £181 £200 £183
25th Percentile £306 £320 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £594
90th Percentile £659 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 174 404
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.54 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.13 £15.23
Median hourly rate £27.25 £24.66 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% +14.70% -28.33%
75th Percentile £65.56 £62.50 £52.37
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £67.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.59% +20.90% -27.27%

CoreOS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CoreOS job vacancy trend in the UK

CoreOS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CoreOS
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
Work from Home - 6 £500 - 1
UK excluding London - 5 £500 - 2
North of England - 5 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 2
England - 5 £500 - 2

CoreOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) NetApp Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) FlexPod
1 6 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) OCP
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) NFS
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google
1 6 (100.00%) NetApp
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) VMware