CentOS Contracts in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 475 537
Rank change year-on-year +2 +62 -49
Contract jobs citing CentOS 64 174 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.29% 2.23% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 126 173
10th Percentile £436 £450 £413
25th Percentile £459 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £650
90th Percentile £593 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - £17.72 £23.19
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.10 £35.54
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.37 -
90th Percentile - £19.75 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%

All Operating Systems
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,959 7,819 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.61% 16.25% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,385 5,522 7,543
10th Percentile £185 £193 £174
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £639 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 371 530
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.36
25th Percentile £14.83 £17.72 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +73.29% +23.66%
75th Percentile £61.20 £64.50 £51.34
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +28.57%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in England.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in England.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
London +53 37 £510 -20.78% 16
North of England +15 11 £463 -26.00% 6
Yorkshire +15 8 £463 -17.04% 1
South West -13 7 £575 +5.50% 9
Midlands +22 5 £300 -57.14% 4
West Midlands +19 5 £300 -57.14% 2
East of England +6 3 - - 3
North West +3 3 - - 4
South East -9 1 - - 10
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (35.94%) OpenStack
2 12 (18.75%) nginx
3 6 (9.38%) Apache
4 4 (6.25%) Apache Solr
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (3.13%) Traefik
7 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) AWS
2 13 (20.31%) Slack
3 8 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (10.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (9.38%) GCP
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.81%) PaaS
6 5 (7.81%) Route 53
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
7 4 (6.25%) Azure
7 4 (6.25%) WhatsApp
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (3.13%) Serverless
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.56%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DNS
2 7 (10.94%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.81%) Asterisk PBX
3 5 (7.81%) VoIP
4 4 (6.25%) DHCP
4 4 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.25%) HTTPS
4 4 (6.25%) IPsec
4 4 (6.25%) LAN
4 4 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (6.25%) SAN
4 4 (6.25%) WAN
5 2 (3.13%) Skype
6 1 (1.56%) 3G
6 1 (1.56%) 4G
6 1 (1.56%) 5G
6 1 (1.56%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (1.56%) Firewall
6 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (14.06%) Couchbase
2 9 (14.06%) MySQL
2 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
3 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.56%) Redis
7 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.50%) Git
2 8 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.56%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.25%) Legal
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) Architect
3 7 (10.94%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (10.94%) VMware Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Technical Leader
6 4 (6.25%) Administrator
6 4 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 4 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Server Administrator
6 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) VMWare Administrator
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) DevOps Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.81%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (9.38%) JSON
3 5 (7.81%) LAPP Stack
4 4 (6.25%) CSS
4 4 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (6.25%) HTML
4 4 (6.25%) HTML5
4 4 (6.25%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.25%) YAML
5 2 (3.13%) cloud-init
6 1 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.56%) Kafka
6 1 (1.56%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.56%) Node.js
6 1 (1.56%) React
6 1 (1.56%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Onboarding
2 9 (14.06%) PKI
3 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.13%) Clustering
6 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (51.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (23.44%) Ubuntu
4 13 (20.31%) Windows
5 11 (17.19%) Windows Server
6 5 (7.81%) VMS
7 4 (6.25%) Unix
7 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (4.69%) Debian
9 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
9 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.56%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (1.56%) Fedora
10 1 (1.56%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (34.38%) DevOps
3 21 (32.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (29.69%) Agile
5 16 (25.00%) Observability
6 15 (23.44%) Configuration Management
7 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.38%) Cost Reduction
8 6 (9.38%) Load Balancing
8 6 (9.38%) Microservices
8 6 (9.38%) Task Automation
9 5 (7.81%) Containerisation
9 5 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (7.81%) Patch Management
9 5 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (6.25%) SDLC
10 4 (6.25%) Software Delivery
10 4 (6.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) Python
2 22 (34.38%) Bash
3 21 (32.81%) Shell Script
4 14 (21.88%) SQL
5 13 (20.31%) PowerShell
6 8 (12.50%) PHP
7 7 (10.94%) Go
8 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.13%) Perl
9 2 (3.13%) Ruby
10 1 (1.56%) C
10 1 (1.56%) C++
10 1 (1.56%) Groovy
10 1 (1.56%) Java
10 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.56%) Korn
10 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) Degree
5 2 (3.13%) MCSE
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CEH
6 1 (1.56%) CISSP
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.56%) LPIC
6 1 (1.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) GDPR
1 4 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.25%) NIST
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (23.44%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (17.19%) Docker
3 8 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (10.94%) Active Directory
5 4 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 4 (6.25%) VMware Server
5 4 (6.25%) vSphere
6 2 (3.13%) KVM
7 1 (1.56%) Firmware
7 1 (1.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (51.56%) Ansible
2 25 (39.06%) Prometheus
3 22 (34.38%) Grafana
4 18 (28.13%) Kubernetes
5 17 (26.56%) Terraform
6 16 (25.00%) Kibana
6 16 (25.00%) logstash
7 8 (12.50%) ZABBIX
8 7 (10.94%) Packer
8 7 (10.94%) Puppet
9 5 (7.81%) Nagios
10 4 (6.25%) Rancher
10 4 (6.25%) vCenter Server
11 3 (4.69%) HAProxy
12 2 (3.13%) Consul
12 2 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (3.13%) Graphite
12 2 (3.13%) Istio
12 2 (3.13%) linkerd
12 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (39.06%) Red Hat
2 16 (25.00%) VMware
3 13 (20.31%) Amdocs
4 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.94%) Cisco
6 4 (6.25%) Google
6 4 (6.25%) Splunk
7 2 (3.13%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle
8 1 (1.56%) Qualys
8 1 (1.56%) Sybase