CentOS Jobs in England

CentOS Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring CentOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CentOS over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 541 658
Rank change year-on-year -84 +117 +15
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 61 309 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.88% 2.47% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 56 179 210
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £74,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £110,625 £92,000 £80,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +10.00%

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 6,920 12,491 14,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.00% 14.44% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,119 9,837 9,773
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,760 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,800 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CentOS in England.

Salary trend for CentOS in England

CentOS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +68 28 £83,750 -1.47% 30
North of England +40 12 £55,000 +83.33% 7
South East +5 12 £41,250 -13.16% 35
North West -5 12 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Midlands +47 9 £40,000 -13.51% 6
East Midlands +14 7 £40,000 -20.00%
West Midlands +31 2 £60,000 +100.00% 4
East of England - 1 £67,500 - 14
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 10 (16.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.20%) Apache
3 3 (4.92%) IIS
3 3 (4.92%) nginx
3 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.92%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.28%) Confluence
5 1 (1.64%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Fidessa
2 2 (3.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) AWS
2 21 (34.43%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (11.48%) GCP
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.92%) Datadog
6 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) Nutanix
6 3 (4.92%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.28%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.64%) GitHub
8 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.64%) PaaS
8 1 (1.64%) SaaS
8 1 (1.64%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (32.79%) DNS
2 15 (24.59%) DHCP
3 14 (22.95%) Firewall
4 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
5 6 (9.84%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (9.84%) VLAN
5 6 (9.84%) VPN
5 6 (9.84%) Wireshark
6 3 (4.92%) HTTP
6 3 (4.92%) Multicast
6 3 (4.92%) SSL
7 2 (3.28%) FTP
7 2 (3.28%) HTTPS
7 2 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (3.28%) SAN
7 2 (3.28%) SSH
7 2 (3.28%) Telnet
7 2 (3.28%) VSAN
8 1 (1.64%) DVB
8 1 (1.64%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) MySQL
2 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.28%) Big Data
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) Subversion
General
1 21 (34.43%) Finance
2 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 15 (24.59%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.92%) Spanish Language
5 2 (3.28%) Games
6 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.64%) Automotive
6 1 (1.64%) Back Office
6 1 (1.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Administrator
2 10 (16.39%) Linux Administrator
2 10 (16.39%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Analyst
4 7 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Support Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Applications Support
5 6 (9.84%) Applications Support Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) NOC Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) FIX Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) FIX Support Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Linux Support
7 4 (6.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Server Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) SQL Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (4.92%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (4.92%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (4.92%) Loki
2 3 (4.92%) Node.js
3 2 (3.28%) EDI
3 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.28%) LAMP
3 2 (3.28%) XML
4 1 (1.64%) ColdBox
4 1 (1.64%) CSS
4 1 (1.64%) HTML
4 1 (1.64%) jQuery
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Laravel
4 1 (1.64%) LDAP
4 1 (1.64%) RESTful
4 1 (1.64%) SOAP
4 1 (1.64%) Web Services
4 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.84%) Derivative
2 6 (9.84%) Equities
2 6 (9.84%) Eurex
2 6 (9.84%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.20%) Hedge funds
4 4 (6.56%) Bitcoin
4 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Clustering
5 3 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.92%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.28%) Life Science
6 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
6 2 (3.28%) Replication
7 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (39.34%) Ubuntu
3 22 (36.07%) Windows
4 16 (26.23%) Rocky
5 13 (21.31%) Windows Server
6 12 (19.67%) Unix
7 11 (18.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (8.20%) Debian
8 5 (8.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (6.56%) Solaris
10 2 (3.28%) AIX
10 2 (3.28%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.64%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) DevOps
2 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
3 14 (22.95%) Containerisation
4 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (18.03%) Capacity Planning
5 11 (18.03%) ITIL
5 11 (18.03%) Service Delivery
6 9 (14.75%) Configuration Management
6 9 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (13.11%) Client Onboarding
7 8 (13.11%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.48%) Low Latency
9 6 (9.84%) Information Security
9 6 (9.84%) Information Security Management
9 6 (9.84%) Proactive Monitoring
9 6 (9.84%) Security Management
10 5 (8.20%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) Bash
3 15 (24.59%) PowerShell
4 13 (21.31%) SQL
5 6 (9.84%) Perl
6 5 (8.20%) PHP
7 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.28%) AWK
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) Korn
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) Java
9 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) RHCE
2 6 (9.84%) CCNA
2 6 (9.84%) CCNP
2 6 (9.84%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) MCSA
2 6 (9.84%) MCSE
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (9.84%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (9.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) HNC
6 1 (1.64%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 5 (8.20%) SLA
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (16.39%) Docker
3 9 (14.75%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.20%) Postfix
5 3 (4.92%) Dovecot
5 3 (4.92%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.92%) KVM
5 3 (4.92%) VMware NSX
6 2 (3.28%) Sendmail
6 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.28%) vSphere
7 1 (1.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (45.90%) Ansible
2 22 (36.07%) Grafana
3 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.03%) Terraform
4 10 (16.39%) Nagios
4 10 (16.39%) Prometheus
5 6 (9.84%) Puppet
6 4 (6.56%) Nessus
7 3 (4.92%) Proxmox
7 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (59.02%) Red Hat
2 22 (36.07%) Microsoft
3 20 (32.79%) VMware
4 8 (13.11%) Atlassian
4 8 (13.11%) Oracle
5 7 (11.48%) Cisco
6 6 (9.84%) Bloomberg
6 6 (9.84%) CQG
6 6 (9.84%) ION Trading
6 6 (9.84%) Palo Alto
6 6 (9.84%) Reuters
6 6 (9.84%) Splunk
6 6 (9.84%) Trayport
7 5 (8.20%) Patsystems
8 4 (6.56%) Rapid7
9 3 (4.92%) Okta
9 3 (4.92%) Ping Identity
9 3 (4.92%) SolarWinds
10 2 (3.28%) PagerDuty
10 2 (3.28%) Tenable