CentOS Contracts in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 483 557
Rank change year-on-year -6 +74 -54
Contract jobs citing CentOS 61 153 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.18% 2.01% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 112 163
10th Percentile £431 £425 £413
25th Percentile £456 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £666 £666
90th Percentile £588 £700 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +5.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.58
25th Percentile £21.25 - £19.24
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £24.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - £29.56
90th Percentile - - £31.70
UK median hourly rate £22.50 - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +31.51%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,164 7,622 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 16.20% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,352 7,467
10th Percentile £188 £194 £175
25th Percentile £310 £329 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 360 497
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.22 £15.80
Median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

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 12 June 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 12 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
London +54 33 £501 -21.49% 9
North of England +6 9 £463 -26.00% 8
Yorkshire +15 7 £463 -17.04% 1
South West -12 7 £575 +5.50% 4
West Midlands +12 5 £300 -57.14% 2
Midlands +9 5 £300 -57.14% 2
South East -7 4 £540 +10.77% 16
East of England +4 3 - - 4
North West +3 2 - - 5
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 15 (24.59%) OpenStack
2 6 (9.84%) nginx
3 4 (6.56%) Apache
3 4 (6.56%) Apache Solr
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.64%) Confluence
5 1 (1.64%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) Slack
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 7 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.20%) Azure
5 5 (8.20%) GCP
5 5 (8.20%) Route 53
5 5 (8.20%) WhatsApp
6 4 (6.56%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (6.56%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub
7 2 (3.28%) Serverless
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) DNS
2 5 (8.20%) Asterisk PBX
2 5 (8.20%) DHCP
2 5 (8.20%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.20%) VoIP
3 4 (6.56%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (6.56%) Firewall
3 4 (6.56%) HTTPS
3 4 (6.56%) IPsec
3 4 (6.56%) LAN
3 4 (6.56%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (6.56%) SAN
3 4 (6.56%) WAN
4 3 (4.92%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.28%) Skype
6 1 (1.64%) SSH
6 1 (1.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (16.39%) MySQL
3 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.56%) Couchbase
4 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.64%) Redis
7 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (34.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.48%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) Git
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Finance
3 4 (6.56%) Legal
4 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Architect
4 7 (11.48%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.48%) VMware Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Lead
6 5 (8.20%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Applications Support
6 5 (8.20%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Technical Leader
7 4 (6.56%) Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) Server Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) VMWare Administrator
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Integration Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (9.84%) JSON
3 5 (8.20%) CSS
3 5 (8.20%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (8.20%) HTML
3 5 (8.20%) HTML5
4 4 (6.56%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.56%) YAML
5 1 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.64%) cloud-init
5 1 (1.64%) Kafka
5 1 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (1.64%) Node.js
5 1 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Onboarding
2 8 (13.11%) PKI
3 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.28%) Hedge funds
5 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.64%) Clustering
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (57.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (24.59%) Windows
4 13 (21.31%) Windows Server
5 11 (18.03%) Ubuntu
6 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (6.56%) Unix
9 3 (4.92%) Debian
10 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
10 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.64%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (1.64%) Fedora
11 1 (1.64%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) CI/CD
2 19 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (29.51%) Agile
3 18 (29.51%) DevOps
4 14 (22.95%) Observability
5 9 (14.75%) Configuration Management
6 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (9.84%) Containerisation
7 6 (9.84%) Migration
7 6 (9.84%) Task Automation
8 5 (8.20%) Application Security
8 5 (8.20%) Cost Reduction
8 5 (8.20%) Load Balancing
8 5 (8.20%) Microservices
8 5 (8.20%) OOP
8 5 (8.20%) Patch Management
9 4 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (6.56%) Information Security
9 4 (6.56%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) Python
2 20 (32.79%) Shell Script
3 17 (27.87%) Bash
4 15 (24.59%) PowerShell
5 12 (19.67%) PHP
6 10 (16.39%) SQL
7 6 (9.84%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.28%) Perl
9 1 (1.64%) C
9 1 (1.64%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) Groovy
9 1 (1.64%) Java
9 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.64%) Korn
9 1 (1.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) MCSE
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CEH
6 1 (1.64%) CISSP
6 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.64%) LPIC
6 1 (1.64%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
1 4 (6.56%) HIPAA
1 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.56%) NIST
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 8 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.20%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.20%) vSphere
4 4 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.56%) VMware Server
5 2 (3.28%) KVM
6 1 (1.64%) Firmware
6 1 (1.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (45.90%) Ansible
2 19 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 17 (27.87%) Prometheus
4 14 (22.95%) Grafana
4 14 (22.95%) Kibana
4 14 (22.95%) logstash
5 11 (18.03%) Terraform
6 6 (9.84%) Packer
6 6 (9.84%) Puppet
7 5 (8.20%) Nagios
7 5 (8.20%) vCenter Server
8 4 (6.56%) Rancher
9 3 (4.92%) yum
10 2 (3.28%) HAProxy
10 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
10 2 (3.28%) SELinux
10 2 (3.28%) WSUS
10 2 (3.28%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.64%) Consul
11 1 (1.64%) Nessus
Vendors
1 27 (44.26%) Red Hat
2 16 (26.23%) VMware
3 13 (21.31%) Amdocs
4 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco
6 4 (6.56%) Google
7 3 (4.92%) Splunk
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle
8 1 (1.64%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.64%) Qualys
8 1 (1.64%) Sybase