CentOS Contracts with Work from Home Options

CentOS Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for CentOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CentOS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 416 481
Rank change year-on-year +92 +65 -107
Contract jobs citing CentOS 23 51 138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.47% 1.48% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 88
10th Percentile £307 £463 £388
25th Percentile £363 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £666 £540
Median % change year-on-year -28.68% +23.33% +16.13%
75th Percentile £488 £723 £641
90th Percentile £533 £748 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.24
25th Percentile - - £22.59
Median hourly rate - - £26.38
75th Percentile - - £31.34
90th Percentile - - £32.41
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

CentOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,563 3,454 5,394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.35% 13.75% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 2,433 3,815
10th Percentile £222 £250 £298
25th Percentile £350 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £606
90th Percentile £683 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 101 158
10th Percentile £12.85 £19.00 £14.43
25th Percentile £14.27 £38.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +28.15% +15.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

CentOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CentOS trend for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing CentOS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 7 (30.43%) OpenStack
2 6 (26.09%) nginx
3 4 (17.39%) Apache Solr
4 2 (8.70%) Apache
4 2 (8.70%) SAS
5 1 (4.35%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) Azure
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Route 53
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 4 (17.39%) HTTPS
3 4 (17.39%) IPsec
4 2 (8.70%) DHCP
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
4 2 (8.70%) LAN
4 2 (8.70%) WAN
5 1 (4.35%) 4G
5 1 (4.35%) 5G
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.35%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (4.35%) SAN
5 1 (4.35%) VPN
5 1 (4.35%) Wireless
5 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
5 1 (4.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Couchbase
1 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
2 5 (21.74%) MySQL
3 4 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
5 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Legal
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Back Office
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Administrator
4 2 (8.70%) Audit Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) PHP Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Deployment Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (17.39%) JSON
2 4 (17.39%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (17.39%) YAML
3 2 (8.70%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (8.70%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (8.70%) Laravel
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
1 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Ubuntu
3 4 (17.39%) Windows
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Debian
5 2 (8.70%) VMS
6 1 (4.35%) Rocky
6 1 (4.35%) Unix
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (34.78%) Migration
5 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
6 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (21.74%) Agile
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (17.39%) Information Security
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
8 4 (17.39%) Observability
8 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (17.39%) SDLC
8 4 (17.39%) Software Delivery
9 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (8.70%) Cost Optimisation
10 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PHP
1 7 (30.43%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
2 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) CEH
1 1 (4.35%) CISSP
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 4 (17.39%) GDPR
2 4 (17.39%) HIPAA
2 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (17.39%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.35%) VMware Server
4 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Ansible
2 7 (30.43%) Terraform
3 6 (26.09%) Grafana
3 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
4 4 (17.39%) Kibana
4 4 (17.39%) logstash
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
5 2 (8.70%) ZABBIX
6 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
6 1 (4.35%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (4.35%) Nagios
6 1 (4.35%) Opsview
6 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
2 4 (17.39%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow