Rocky Contract Job Trends

Rocky Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 539 565
Rank change year-on-year -105 +26 +103
Contract jobs citing Rocky 12 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.047% 0.021%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.24% 0.34% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile - £475 -
25th Percentile - £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile - £588 £531
90th Percentile - - £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £363 £500
% change year-on-year +65.52% -27.50% -28.57%

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 4,982 4,352 5,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 13.71% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,190 2,817 3,888
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -2.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 224 435
10th Percentile £15.58 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.22 £22.78 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.10% -8.88% -41.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.93 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £19.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.34% -45.51% +16.67%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Rocky job vacancy trend in the UK

Rocky
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Rocky
Top 7 Contract Job 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 5 July 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
England -118 11 £600 +17.07% 10
UK excluding London -109 10 £600 +65.52% 9
South West - 5 - - 3
East of England - 4 £600 - 3
Work from Home -45 2 - - 2
London -87 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Rocky
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) JBoss
2 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
1 4 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (16.67%) SSH
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (8.33%) InfiniBand
3 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) OpenStack Swift
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Open Source Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Backup Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) NetApp Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) NetApp Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Backup Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Ubuntu
3 6 (50.00%) CentOS
4 4 (33.33%) Debian
4 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (8.33%) Solaris
5 1 (8.33%) SUSE
5 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Open Source
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Runbook
5 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Go
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) NFS
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) GPFS
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) iptables
3 1 (8.33%) KVM
3 1 (8.33%) Lustre
3 1 (8.33%) Samba
3 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (33.33%) NetBackup
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
5 1 (8.33%) Nagios
5 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) Rundeck
5 1 (8.33%) SELinux
5 1 (8.33%) systemd
5 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) NetApp
1 4 (33.33%) Veeam
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Murex
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) SaltStack
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk