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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 388 414
Rank change year-on-year +29 +26 +103
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 15 42 38
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.10% 1.85% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 31 34
10th Percentile £43,375 - £50,000
25th Percentile £47,938 - £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -29.41% +41.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £106,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -2.78%

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 1,368 2,265 2,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.77% 14.70% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 1,448 2,288
10th Percentile £31,100 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £89,125 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +38 5 £43,750 -51.39%
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 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) SNMP
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Advertising
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Linux Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Support
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) LAMP
2 2 (13.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) FPGA
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Rocky
5 2 (13.33%) Debian
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) Security Hardening
2 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Low Latency
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Bash
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) RHCE
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) KVM
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Nagios
4 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (6.67%) Grafana
6 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk