CentOS Contracts in the North West

CentOS Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 136 135
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.097% 0.036% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.69% 0.28% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - £329
25th Percentile £413 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £625
75th Percentile £438 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 289 351 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.05% 12.63% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 226 321
10th Percentile £181 £186 £180
25th Percentile £276 £285 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -3.89% -5.61%
75th Percentile £506 £606 £575
90th Percentile £622 £838 £650
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 62 50
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £16.55
Median hourly rate £17.44 £14.88 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -44.91% +35.00%
75th Percentile - £19.07 £43.75
90th Percentile £18.87 £48.00 £49.52
England median hourly rate £19.36 £24.93 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.33% -41.35% +88.89%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
Manchester - 2 £425 - 6
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Virtualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
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