CentOS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CentOS Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 323 423
Rank change year-on-year +38 +100 +71
Contract jobs citing CentOS 19 22 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.61% 1.38% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 36
10th Percentile £464 £342 £451
25th Percentile £475 £400 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £475 £658
Median % change year-on-year +16.84% -27.81% +19.64%
75th Percentile £741 £488 £723
90th Percentile £750 £540 £744
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +30.00% -20.00% +13.64%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

CentOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

CentOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CentOS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CentOS.

CentOS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CentOS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CentOS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CentOS.

CentOS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (26.32%) nginx
1 5 (26.32%) Traefik
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 12 (63.16%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (47.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (42.11%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (36.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (36.84%) AWS Fargate
5 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.79%) GitHub
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.53%) Azure
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
8 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
8 1 (5.26%) Linode
8 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
8 1 (5.26%) PaaS
8 1 (5.26%) Route 53
8 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) DNS
2 10 (52.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (21.05%) DHCP
4 2 (10.53%) SSH
5 1 (5.26%) Firewall
5 1 (5.26%) HTTP
5 1 (5.26%) SSL
5 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) MariaDB
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) GitLab
1 12 (63.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Senior
1 11 (57.89%) Senior DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Administrator
6 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Principal Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) cloud-init
2 7 (36.84%) Kafka
2 7 (36.84%) Keycloak
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (84.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (63.16%) Unix
4 5 (26.32%) Ubuntu
5 2 (10.53%) SUSE
5 2 (10.53%) Windows
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.26%) AIX
6 1 (5.26%) HPUX
6 1 (5.26%) Rocky
6 1 (5.26%) Solaris
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) DevOps
1 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (36.84%) Cloud Security
4 7 (36.84%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (36.84%) Identity Management
4 7 (36.84%) Observability
4 7 (36.84%) Secrets Management
4 7 (36.84%) Static Application Security Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (15.79%) Agile
6 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
7 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
7 2 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (5.26%) Data Security
8 1 (5.26%) ITIL
8 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Bash
2 14 (73.68%) Python
3 11 (57.89%) Go
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
2 12 (63.16%) Packer
3 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
4 9 (47.37%) Prometheus
5 8 (42.11%) Grafana
5 8 (42.11%) ZABBIX
6 7 (36.84%) Consul
6 7 (36.84%) Istio
6 7 (36.84%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (36.84%) linkerd
6 7 (36.84%) Rancher
7 5 (26.32%) HAProxy
8 4 (21.05%) Ansible
8 4 (21.05%) Puppet
9 3 (15.79%) Progress Chef
10 2 (10.53%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (5.26%) Nagios
11 1 (5.26%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Okta
1 7 (36.84%) Splunk
2 5 (26.32%) Apple
2 5 (26.32%) ESET
2 5 (26.32%) Red Hat
3 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) HP
5 1 (5.26%) Black Duck
5 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx
5 1 (5.26%) Dell
5 1 (5.26%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) Tenable