Rocky Contracts

Rocky Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Rocky skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rocky over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 597 711
Rank change year-on-year +95 +114 -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 17 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.007% 0.003%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.42% 0.052% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile £500 £606 -
25th Percentile £505 £616 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% - -
75th Percentile £600 £666 -
90th Percentile £650 £679 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £675 -
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rocky over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +77 16 £538 -15.69% 9
London +48 14 £525 -12.50% 1
UK excluding London +55 2 £700 +3.70% 8
Midlands - 2 £700 - 1
Work from Home +50 1 £500 - 10
South West - 1 £700 - 2
Wales - 1 £700 -
West Midlands - 1 £700 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -

Rocky
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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DHCP
1 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) FIX Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) FIX Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Support
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.76%) Eurex
3 1 (5.88%) Bitcoin
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (29.41%) CentOS
4 3 (17.65%) Windows
5 2 (11.76%) Unix
5 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
1 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Sprint Review
4 2 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (11.76%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) Server Management
4 2 (11.76%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Packer
4 3 (17.65%) Consul
5 2 (11.76%) Puppet
5 2 (11.76%) Rundeck
5 2 (11.76%) ZABBIX
6 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
6 1 (5.88%) Nagios
6 1 (5.88%) Proxmox
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Bloomberg
2 2 (11.76%) CQG
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) ION Trading
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Patsystems
2 2 (11.76%) Reuters
2 2 (11.76%) Trayport
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds