CentOS Jobs in the North of England

CentOS Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 385 389
Rank change year-on-year +54 +4 +27
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 11 18 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.093% 0.091% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.62% 0.78% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 33
10th Percentile £45,000 - £43,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £27,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -21.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,762 2,299 2,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.87% 11.66% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 731 1,731 1,438
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +3.53%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £43,710 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.87% -14.29% -

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the North of England

CentOS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for CentOS in the North of England

CentOS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for CentOS in the North of England

CentOS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
North West +7 11 £60,000 +4.35% 7
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (36.36%) IIS
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) OneDrive
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DHCP
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jaeger
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (9.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Game Development
5 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Server Management
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Tech Ops
6 1 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Linux+ Certification
1 3 (27.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
1 3 (27.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Docker
3 3 (27.27%) Dovecot
3 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 3 (27.27%) Postfix
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Okta
3 3 (27.27%) Ping Identity
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
4 2 (18.18%) PagerDuty
5 1 (9.09%) New Relic