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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 322 409
Rank change year-on-year +28 +87 +78
Contract jobs citing CentOS 14 21 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.26% 1.33% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 32
10th Percentile £446 £307 £324
25th Percentile £475 £363 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £554
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.96% +2.55%
75th Percentile £560 £536 £700
90th Percentile £575 £550 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +10.00% -15.61% +7.73%

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 1,112 1,577 3,217
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.37% 10.68% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 1,078 2,254
10th Percentile £277 £231 £243
25th Percentile £375 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £499 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -4.95% +0.96%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £638
90th Percentile £675 £681 £738
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 43 118
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £14.14 £25.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.64 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +268.59% -66.41% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £71.60 £71.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.95 £24.18 £46.00
% change year-on-year -9.22% -47.43% +104.44%

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 22 June 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 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Anypoint
3 1 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Linode
4 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.14%) OCI
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Route 53
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) SSH
4 1 (7.14%) BGP
4 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (7.14%) HTTP
4 1 (7.14%) MPLS
4 1 (7.14%) SSL
4 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MariaDB
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Vagrant
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) LAMP
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
1 2 (14.29%) Zend Framework
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTCONF
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Clustering
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Ubuntu
3 5 (35.71%) Windows
4 3 (21.43%) Unix
5 2 (14.29%) Debian
5 2 (14.29%) SUSE
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (7.14%) Rocky
6 1 (7.14%) VMS
6 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
1 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Build Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Security Hardening
3 2 (14.29%) Server Building
3 2 (14.29%) Server Patching
3 2 (14.29%) Software Deployment
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Bash
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Perl
4 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) PHP
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) Docker
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) VirtualBox
3 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Puppet
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Progress Chef
3 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 3 (21.43%) Nagios
4 3 (21.43%) Salt
4 3 (21.43%) Terraform
5 2 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (14.29%) Icinga
5 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (7.14%) Grafana
6 1 (7.14%) Packer
6 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
6 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
3 3 (21.43%) IBM
4 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
4 2 (14.29%) New Relic
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) Rackspace
4 2 (14.29%) Zend
5 1 (7.14%) Black Duck
5 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Dell
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) Tenable
5 1 (7.14%) Vertica