CoreOS Job Trends in the North West

CoreOS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CoreOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 206 212
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 -
Permanent jobs citing CoreOS 1 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.015% 0.040% 0.019%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% 0.31% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £90,801 £89,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £94,637 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year -49.81% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £98,474 £96,539
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £52,500 £94,637 £52,500
% change year-on-year -44.52% +80.26% -

All Operating Systems
North West

CoreOS 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 392 636 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.97% 12.60% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 338 343 501
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,378 £74,144 £74,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

CoreOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CoreOS job vacancy trend in the North West

CoreOS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CoreOS

CoreOS
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 CoreOS within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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 +12 1 £47,500 -49.81% 1
CoreOS
England

CoreOS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (100.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat