CentOS Job Trends in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring CentOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 531 571
Rank change year-on-year -52 +40 +76
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 61 78 227
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.093% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.28% 1.29% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 43 60 158
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £32,825
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,125 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -7.41%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,766 6,059 11,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.27% 15.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,606 3,953 9,615
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,854
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.72% -10.75%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CentOS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

CentOS job vacancy trend in England

CentOS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CentOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CentOS

CentOS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for CentOS in England

CentOS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the England region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -9 21 £50,000 -16.67% 6
London -9 18 £85,000 +33.33% 6
South West -25 11 £47,500 -9.52% 3
North West -9 6 £53,750 +11.40% 1
North of England -46 6 £53,750 +11.40% 3
Midlands -18 4 £26,265 -34.34% 2
East Midlands -31 3 £26,265 -34.34%
West Midlands +6 1 - - 2
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (14.75%) Apache
2 5 (8.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (4.92%) nginx
5 1 (1.64%) Confluence
5 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) AWS
2 22 (36.07%) Azure
3 13 (21.31%) GCP
3 13 (21.31%) SaaS
4 12 (19.67%) OpenShift
5 7 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.20%) Serverless
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Datadog
9 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.15%) DNS
2 11 (18.03%) Firewall
3 9 (14.75%) HTTP
3 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
4 7 (11.48%) DHCP
5 6 (9.84%) LAN
5 6 (9.84%) WAN
6 5 (8.20%) AMQP
6 5 (8.20%) SAN
6 5 (8.20%) VSAN
7 3 (4.92%) NAS
7 3 (4.92%) Network Security
7 3 (4.92%) VPN
8 2 (3.28%) iSCSI
8 2 (3.28%) PBX
8 2 (3.28%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (3.28%) SNMP
8 2 (3.28%) VLAN
9 1 (1.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) MySQL
2 5 (8.20%) Big Data
2 5 (8.20%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (8.20%) Hadoop
2 5 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.56%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) GitLab
3 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.56%) Robot Framework
4 4 (6.56%) TestRail
5 3 (4.92%) JIRA
6 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.28%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 22 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 26 (42.62%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (27.87%) Linux Support
2 17 (27.87%) Linux Support Engineer
2 17 (27.87%) Support Engineer
3 15 (24.59%) Administrator
4 14 (22.95%) Linux Administrator
5 8 (13.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 8 (13.11%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (11.48%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Senior
8 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Implementation Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Implementation Specialist
9 4 (6.56%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (6.56%) Products Support Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Support Specialist
9 4 (6.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Node.js
2 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.20%) gRPC
2 5 (8.20%) Material-UI
2 5 (8.20%) OpenAPI
2 5 (8.20%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (8.20%) React
2 5 (8.20%) REST
2 5 (8.20%) Spring
2 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
2 5 (8.20%) Swagger
3 4 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (6.56%) LAMP
4 3 (4.92%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.28%) LDAP
5 2 (3.28%) Playwright
5 2 (3.28%) pytest
6 1 (1.64%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (1.64%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.56%) Video on Demand
3 4 (6.56%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.28%) FPGA
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.64%) Clustering
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 38 (62.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (45.90%) Ubuntu
4 15 (24.59%) Windows
5 11 (18.03%) Windows Server
6 7 (11.48%) Debian
7 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (6.56%) Rocky
10 3 (4.92%) CoreOS
10 3 (4.92%) SUSE
11 2 (3.28%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (27.87%) Containerisation
4 16 (26.23%) Configuration Management
5 14 (22.95%) Agile
6 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
6 13 (21.31%) Migration
7 11 (18.03%) DevOps
8 10 (16.39%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (13.11%) High Availability
9 8 (13.11%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (11.48%) ITIL
10 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.84%) Time Management
12 5 (8.20%) Computer Science
12 5 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (8.20%) Kanban
12 5 (8.20%) Scrum
12 5 (8.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) Python
2 33 (54.10%) Bash
3 22 (36.07%) PowerShell
4 16 (26.23%) Perl
5 12 (19.67%) Shell Script
6 10 (16.39%) PHP
7 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
8 7 (11.48%) Java
9 2 (3.28%) C
10 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (4.92%) RHCE
5 3 (4.92%) RHCSA
6 2 (3.28%) Degree
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.64%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) Docker
2 10 (16.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (11.48%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.92%) KVM
5 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (3.28%) Samba
6 2 (3.28%) vSphere
7 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (47.54%) Ansible
2 25 (40.98%) Kubernetes
3 24 (39.34%) Terraform
4 12 (19.67%) Nagios
5 8 (13.11%) Grafana
5 8 (13.11%) Puppet
6 4 (6.56%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (6.56%) SCVMM
6 4 (6.56%) vCenter Server
7 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.28%) Kibana
8 2 (3.28%) logstash
8 2 (3.28%) Nessus
8 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (1.64%) Argo
9 1 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.64%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (55.74%) Red Hat
2 10 (16.39%) Splunk
2 10 (16.39%) VMware
3 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.20%) Google
4 5 (8.20%) SaltStack
5 4 (6.56%) Dell
5 4 (6.56%) McAfee
6 3 (4.92%) Rapid7
7 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.28%) D-Link
7 2 (3.28%) HP
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
8 1 (1.64%) Cisco
8 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Veeam