CentOS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

CentOS Linux
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring CentOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 84 96
Rank change year-on-year -49 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing CentOS 9 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.35% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.83% 2.80% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile £500 £407 -
25th Percentile £513 £458 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £563 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +21.68% -17.04%
75th Percentile £538 £660 £469
90th Percentile £560 £707 £600
England median daily rate £503 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -8.64% +9.89% -17.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.10%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

CentOS 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 in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 318 214 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.37% 20.40% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 125 235
10th Percentile £185 £176 £163
25th Percentile £319 £258 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +8.43% -7.78%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £500
90th Percentile £615 £645 £588
England median daily rate £450 £468 £470
% change year-on-year -3.74% -0.53% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 15
10th Percentile £16.03 £16.25 £13.65
25th Percentile £17.92 £16.44 £14.52
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.21 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +25.27% -0.36% -6.95%
75th Percentile £25.00 £19.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.14 £19.76 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £21.28 £22.00
% change year-on-year +99.72% -3.27% -42.11%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CentOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CentOS

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in Yorkshire

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CentOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CentOS

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
South Yorkshire - 8 £531 -
West Yorkshire -24 1 £650 +15.50% 2
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (88.89%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (88.89%) ITSM
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (88.89%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Perl
1 8 (88.89%) Python
1 8 (88.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) RHCE
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat