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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 238 202
Rank change year-on-year +15 -36 +107
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 9 4 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.052% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.77% 0.49% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 13
10th Percentile £44,750 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 £67,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £63,000 - £61,200
England median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% +9.52%

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 1,174 816 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.79% 10.52% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 317 454 519
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,575 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £52,300
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -18.74% +23.06%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,515 £77,500
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +33 9 £60,000 -14.29%
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 (44.44%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Nutanix
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
General
1 2 (22.22%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (11.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Game Development
4 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Server Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Tech Ops
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Logistics
5 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (11.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
3 1 (11.11%) Dovecot
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Postfix
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (22.22%) PagerDuty
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) Okta
4 1 (11.11%) Ping Identity
4 1 (11.11%) Rapid7