CentOS Jobs in the North West

CentOS Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 279 274
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +38
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 11 12 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.89% 0.99% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 20
10th Percentile £45,000 - £28,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% +35.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £47,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,000 - £63,450
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +4.33%

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 1,236 1,210 1,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.75% 11.63% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 347 887 732
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £30,000 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for CentOS in the North West

CentOS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 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 31 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
Manchester +55 11 £60,000 +33.33% 8
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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%) Disaster Recovery
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