CentOS Jobs with Work from Home Options

CentOS Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for CentOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CentOS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 523 557
Rank change year-on-year +25 +34 -166
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 91 138 300
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.95% 2.15% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 87 115 209
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £66,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £92,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

CentOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,671 6,411 12,175
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.83% 15.46% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,627 4,703 7,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

CentOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CentOS trend for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CentOS.

CentOS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CentOS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

CentOS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (14.29%) nginx
2 3 (3.30%) Apache
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) IIS
4 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (15.38%) Simulink
2 2 (2.20%) CATIA
2 2 (2.20%) NASTRAN
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (45.05%) AWS
2 33 (36.26%) Azure
3 8 (8.79%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (8.79%) GCP
3 8 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.79%) SaaS
4 7 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.10%) Serverless
8 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.89%) DNS
1 9 (9.89%) LAN
1 9 (9.89%) WAN
2 8 (8.79%) Firewall
2 8 (8.79%) HTTPS
2 8 (8.79%) SSL
3 7 (7.69%) OpenVPN
3 7 (7.69%) SAN
4 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.40%) DHCP
5 4 (4.40%) HTTP
6 3 (3.30%) NAS
7 2 (2.20%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (2.20%) PBX
7 2 (2.20%) RTP
7 2 (2.20%) SNMP
7 2 (2.20%) VLAN
7 2 (2.20%) VoIP
8 1 (1.10%) Internet
8 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.58%) SQL Server
2 15 (16.48%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.30%) Ingres
4 3 (3.30%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 27 (29.67%) Git
2 23 (25.27%) Vagrant
3 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) Subversion
General
1 34 (37.36%) Finance
2 15 (16.48%) Financial Institution
3 14 (15.38%) Banking
3 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
2 15 (16.48%) Software Engineer
3 14 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Administrator
4 13 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
5 12 (13.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 12 (13.19%) Systems Administrator
6 11 (12.09%) Lead
7 9 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Linux Support
8 8 (8.79%) Technical Leader
9 7 (7.69%) Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (7.69%) React Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Graduate Support Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Graduate Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Linux Support Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.37%) Middleware
2 12 (13.19%) Kafka
3 7 (7.69%) CSS
3 7 (7.69%) CSS3
3 7 (7.69%) Flask
3 7 (7.69%) HTML
3 7 (7.69%) HTML5
3 7 (7.69%) React
3 7 (7.69%) Redux
4 3 (3.30%) EDI
5 2 (2.20%) LDAP
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.10%) LAMP
6 1 (1.10%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (1.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (8.79%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (8.79%) Cyberattack
2 8 (8.79%) Data Fabric
2 8 (8.79%) Replication
3 7 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.30%) FPGA
6 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Clustering
7 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 91 (100.00%) Linux
2 52 (57.14%) Ubuntu
3 43 (47.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (25.27%) Unix
5 19 (20.88%) Windows
6 15 (16.48%) Android
7 12 (13.19%) Solaris
7 12 (13.19%) zOS
8 7 (7.69%) CoreOS
8 7 (7.69%) SUSE
9 6 (6.59%) Debian
10 3 (3.30%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
12 1 (1.10%) Fedora
12 1 (1.10%) OpenBSD
12 1 (1.10%) openSUSE
12 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.18%) DevOps
1 22 (24.18%) Software Engineering
2 21 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
2 21 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
4 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (16.48%) Microservices
6 14 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 14 (15.38%) Signal Processing
7 12 (13.19%) Customer Experience
7 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (13.19%) ETL
7 12 (13.19%) Key Management
7 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.09%) ITIL
9 9 (9.89%) Capacity Management
10 8 (8.79%) Batch Processing
10 8 (8.79%) Inventory Management
10 8 (8.79%) Software Delivery
10 8 (8.79%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 50 (54.95%) Python
2 27 (29.67%) Java
3 22 (24.18%) JavaScript
4 19 (20.88%) SQL
5 18 (19.78%) Shell Script
6 16 (17.58%) Bash
7 15 (16.48%) Kotlin
8 14 (15.38%) C++
9 10 (10.99%) Perl
10 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
11 7 (7.69%) C#
12 3 (3.30%) AWK
12 3 (3.30%) Go
12 3 (3.30%) PHP
12 3 (3.30%) sed
13 2 (2.20%) C
14 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.78%) Degree
3 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
4 14 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.40%) CISM
6 4 (4.40%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.10%) CCNA
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) ISEB
7 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 4 (4.40%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (29.67%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.30%) NFS
4 3 (3.30%) vSphere
5 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.20%) Kamailio
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.10%) Postfix
6 1 (1.10%) Samba
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (47.25%) Ansible
2 19 (20.88%) Terraform
3 9 (9.89%) Puppet
4 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.40%) Rundeck
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.20%) WSUS
6 1 (1.10%) Cacti
6 1 (1.10%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.10%) Grafana
6 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.10%) Icinga
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Nagios
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 31 (34.07%) Red Hat
2 14 (15.38%) Xilinx
3 10 (10.99%) VMware
4 8 (8.79%) IBM
5 4 (4.40%) Cisco
5 4 (4.40%) Qualys
5 4 (4.40%) Splunk
5 4 (4.40%) Veeam
6 3 (3.30%) Dialogic
6 3 (3.30%) F5
6 3 (3.30%) Intel
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle
6 3 (3.30%) Ribbon
7 2 (2.20%) Commvault
8 1 (1.10%) Dell
8 1 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.10%) HP
8 1 (1.10%) Juniper
8 1 (1.10%) TOWER Software