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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 219 174
Rank change year-on-year +45 -45 +128
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 5 5 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.10% 0.076% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.41% 0.65% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile £44,500 £55,500 -
25th Percentile £45,625 £60,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £54,125
90th Percentile £62,500 - £62,150
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% +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 355 768 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.22% 11.74% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 307 412 448
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £74,300
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 1 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 1 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 +43 5 £50,000 -28.57%
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 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) AMQP
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) gRPC
1 2 (40.00%) Material-UI
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Dovecot
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Nagios
4 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Okta
4 1 (20.00%) Ping Identity
4 1 (20.00%) Rapid7