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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 279 287
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 +11
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 12 13 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.16% 1.09% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 19
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% +35.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,125 £49,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,250 £53,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1,035 1,194 1,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.08% 12.15% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 397 887 764
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,840 £70,750 £72,125
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 10 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 10 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 +59 10 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Lancashire - 2 £55,000 - 4
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 3 (25.00%) IIS
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) FTP
3 2 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 2 (16.67%) SSH
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) VLAN
4 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Games
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Loki
2 2 (16.67%) EDI
2 2 (16.67%) LAMP
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Life Science
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (16.67%) AIX
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (16.67%) Unix
6 1 (8.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Game Development
6 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Supplier Management
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) AWK
4 2 (16.67%) C
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) Korn
4 2 (16.67%) Perl
4 2 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 3 (25.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Postfix
3 4 (33.33%) Docker
4 3 (25.00%) Dovecot
4 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (16.67%) KVM
5 2 (16.67%) Sendmail
5 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Nagios
2 2 (16.67%) Nessus
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (25.00%) Okta
4 3 (25.00%) Ping Identity
5 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
5 2 (16.67%) IBM
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (16.67%) PagerDuty
5 2 (16.67%) SAP
5 2 (16.67%) Tenable
6 1 (8.33%) New Relic