CentOS Job Trends in London

CentOS Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring CentOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 369 433
Rank change year-on-year -21 +64 +86
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 19 28 71
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.093% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.31% 1.69% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16 26 50
10th Percentile - £41,875 £56,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £64,688 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £83,750 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% - +39.58%
75th Percentile £103,750 £109,375 £96,250
90th Percentile - £142,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.84% -2.86%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,445 1,660 2,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.05% 13.44% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,204 2,302
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in London

CentOS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing CentOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing CentOS

CentOS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CentOS in London

CentOS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Central London -11 2 £47,500 -44.12% 1
West London -19 1 £85,000 +112.50%
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) nginx
3 2 (10.53%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.26%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECR
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (21.05%) Datadog
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (10.53%) CloudFront
7 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
7 2 (10.53%) Route 53
7 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) DHCP
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.79%) WAN
3 2 (10.53%) LAN
3 2 (10.53%) Multicast
3 2 (10.53%) NAS
3 2 (10.53%) SAN
3 2 (10.53%) VLAN
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) SMTP
4 1 (5.26%) SNMP
4 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (36.84%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) GitLab
3 4 (21.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (78.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Banking
4 4 (21.05%) Mandarin Language
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Administrator
2 7 (36.84%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (36.84%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 7 (36.84%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (31.58%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps Systems Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) web3js
2 2 (10.53%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Blockchain
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
1 4 (21.05%) Web3
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.26%) FPGA
4 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (52.63%) Ubuntu
3 9 (47.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (31.58%) Windows
5 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (10.53%) Rocky
7 1 (5.26%) CoreOS
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (63.16%) Configuration Management
4 11 (57.89%) Containerisation
4 11 (57.89%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (36.84%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (36.84%) Cloud Security
5 7 (36.84%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (36.84%) Low Latency
6 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (26.32%) Architectural Design
7 5 (26.32%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (21.05%) Cryptocurrency
8 4 (21.05%) Fintech
8 4 (21.05%) High Availability
8 4 (21.05%) Observability
8 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (21.05%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Postgraduate
2 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) RHCE
3 1 (5.26%) RHCSA
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) KVM
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Ansible
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
2 12 (63.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (42.11%) Nagios
4 5 (26.32%) Grafana
5 4 (21.05%) Argo
6 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (10.53%) Proxmox
8 1 (5.26%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (5.26%) Puppet
8 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (5.26%) SCCM
8 1 (5.26%) SCVMM
8 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
8 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Red Hat
2 5 (26.32%) Rapid7
2 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.79%) Veeam
5 2 (10.53%) Dell
5 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.26%) Citrix
6 1 (5.26%) HP
6 1 (5.26%) McAfee
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow