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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 702 -
Rank change year-on-year +117 - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.007% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.035% 0.043% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 - -

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 5,681 9,357 13,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 16.23% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 6,548 8,958
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +0.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 413 611
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.05 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £18.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £39.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.59% +73.33% +26.62%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.25 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.83% +50.00% +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
Top 5 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 14 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
Work from Home +115 1 - - 4
England +114 1 £675 - 7
UK excluding London +62 1 £675 - 7
North of England - 1 £675 -
Yorkshire - 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Fedora
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Graylog
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) Rsyslog
1 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix