CentOS Contracts in the UK excluding London

CentOS Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 341 382
Rank change year-on-year -16 +41 -41
Contract jobs citing CentOS 33 102 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.02% 2.27% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 68 89
10th Percentile £300 £455 £400
25th Percentile £313 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year -42.60% -1.52% +35.29%
75th Percentile £469 £650 £650
90th Percentile £643 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.47 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -74.70% +278.36%
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £18.74 £69.05
% change year-on-year +20.10% -72.87% +278.36%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,235 4,485 5,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 19.20% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,106 3,820
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £259 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £672 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 335 455
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.36 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.38 £60.66 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +21 11 £463 -27.45% 5
Yorkshire +19 8 £463 -17.04% 1
South West -1 7 £575 +6.48% 11
Scotland +39 6 £325 -54.06% 1
Midlands +20 5 £300 -57.14% 4
West Midlands +9 5 £300 -57.14% 2
East of England +10 3 - - 4
North West +2 3 - - 4
Wales +15 1 - - 1
South East -5 1 - - 10
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (21.21%) nginx
2 6 (18.18%) IIS
3 4 (12.12%) Apache Solr
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (6.06%) Traefik
5 1 (3.03%) Apache
5 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (21.21%) AWS
1 7 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 6 (18.18%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
3 5 (15.15%) Route 53
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (12.12%) AWS KMS
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (3.03%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) DNS
2 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.12%) DHCP
3 4 (12.12%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (12.12%) HTTPS
3 4 (12.12%) IPsec
3 4 (12.12%) LAN
3 4 (12.12%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 4 (12.12%) WAN
4 2 (6.06%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Couchbase
1 4 (12.12%) MySQL
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) GitLab
2 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Legal
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Server Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Audit Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Architect
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) JSON
1 4 (12.12%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (12.12%) YAML
2 2 (6.06%) cloud-init
3 1 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 8 (24.24%) PKI
3 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.06%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (42.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (39.39%) Windows
3 13 (39.39%) Windows Server
4 9 (27.27%) Ubuntu
5 8 (24.24%) Debian
5 8 (24.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
8 1 (3.03%) Fedora
8 1 (3.03%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) DevOps
2 9 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.18%) Agile
5 6 (18.18%) Cost Reduction
5 6 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 6 (18.18%) Task Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Microservices
6 5 (15.15%) Patch Management
7 4 (12.12%) Change Control
7 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.12%) Information Security
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (12.12%) SDLC
7 4 (12.12%) Software Delivery
7 4 (12.12%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Bash
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) PHP
5 3 (9.09%) SQL
6 2 (6.06%) Go
6 2 (6.06%) Ruby
7 1 (3.03%) C
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Java
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) MCSE
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) MCSA
3 6 (18.18%) RHCT
4 3 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.03%) LPIC
5 1 (3.03%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
1 4 (12.12%) HIPAA
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
1 4 (12.12%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 7 (21.21%) KVM
4 6 (18.18%) Docker
4 6 (18.18%) Hyper-V
5 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
5 4 (12.12%) VMware Server
5 4 (12.12%) vSphere
6 1 (3.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 10 (30.30%) Terraform
3 7 (21.21%) Puppet
4 6 (18.18%) Packer
5 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 4 (12.12%) Rancher
5 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
6 3 (9.09%) HAProxy
6 3 (9.09%) ZABBIX
7 2 (6.06%) Consul
7 2 (6.06%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (6.06%) Graphite
7 2 (6.06%) Istio
7 2 (6.06%) linkerd
7 2 (6.06%) Podman
7 2 (6.06%) WSUS
8 1 (3.03%) Grafana
8 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.03%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) VMware
2 13 (39.39%) Red Hat
3 6 (18.18%) Citrix
3 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.12%) Google
4 4 (12.12%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) PagerDuty