CentOS Job Trends in the North West

CentOS Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CentOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 210 166
Rank change year-on-year +35 -44 +121
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 5 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.082% 0.057% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.35% 0.44% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £44,875 £54,000 -
25th Percentile £46,563 £56,250 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +31.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,563 £68,750 £52,875
90th Percentile £63,625 £71,000 £63,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +1.85%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 370 682 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.06% 12.88% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 321 382 405
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £43,625 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.75% - -4.76%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in the North West

CentOS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CentOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CentOS

CentOS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the North West over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Manchester +32 5 £53,750 -23.21% 1
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) AMQP
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
1 3 (60.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) gRPC
1 3 (60.00%) Material-UI
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Debian
3 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) API Development
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Rapid7