Rocky Contracts

Rocky Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Rocky skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rocky over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 674 -
Rank change year-on-year +108 - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 9 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.014% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.16% 0.088% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - £633 -
25th Percentile £463 £644 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% - -
75th Percentile £531 £694 -
90th Percentile £598 £698 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £700 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Rocky 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 requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,784 9,075 12,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.43% 16.19% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 6,324 8,810
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £718 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 391 567
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.06 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%

Rocky
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rocky as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rocky over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Rocky in the UK

Rocky
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rocky within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Work from Home +118 7 £500 -23.08% 2
England +87 6 £500 -25.93% 9
UK excluding London +36 5 £500 -28.57% 3
South West - 4 £488 - 1
London +94 1 £500 -23.08% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £675 -
North of England - 1 £675 -

Rocky
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (22.22%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Linux Support
2 4 (44.44%) Linux Specialist
2 4 (44.44%) Support Specialist
3 3 (33.33%) IT Support
3 3 (33.33%) IT Support Specialist
4 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
4 2 (22.22%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
3 3 (33.33%) CentOS
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Fedora
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Application Packaging
1 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
1 2 (22.22%) Reverse Engineering
1 2 (22.22%) Server Building
2 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Graylog
1 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
1 1 (11.11%) Proxmox
1 1 (11.11%) Rsyslog
1 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix