CentOS Job Trends in the South East

CentOS Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring CentOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 273 234
Rank change year-on-year -31 -39 +34
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 25 15 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.17% 0.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.01% 1.14% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 23 11 67
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £53,125 £57,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +34.44% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,625 £51,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £52,700
England median annual salary £85,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +41.67% +33.33% -21.74%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,242 1,318 2,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.22% 14.75% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,039 1,580
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £40,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -17.53% +7.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £47,875 £61,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +8.43% -14.43% -7.62%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CentOS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

CentOS job vacancy trend in the South East

CentOS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CentOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CentOS

CentOS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the South East over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CentOS in the South East

CentOS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Hampshire -41 14 £73,750 +21.90% 4
Surrey -23 5 £47,500 -40.63%
West Sussex -16 4 £70,000 -
Thames Valley - 2 - -
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
1 4 (16.00%) OpenStack
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (36.00%) SaaS
4 7 (28.00%) OpenShift
5 5 (20.00%) Azure Stack
6 2 (8.00%) AWS
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
1 4 (16.00%) HTTP
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
3 2 (8.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) PBX
3 2 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 2 (8.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.00%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Linux Support
4 4 (16.00%) Linux Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (64.00%) Ubuntu
3 15 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (60.00%) Windows
3 15 (60.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (12.00%) Debian
6 3 (12.00%) VMS
7 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (32.00%) Application Packaging
4 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) Change Control
5 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 5 (20.00%) ITIL
6 5 (20.00%) Observability
6 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
7 4 (16.00%) Migration
8 3 (12.00%) Coaching
8 3 (12.00%) High Availability
9 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
9 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 9 (36.00%) Bash
4 8 (32.00%) PHP
5 5 (20.00%) Perl
6 2 (8.00%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) RHCE
4 2 (8.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
2 9 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (28.00%) vSphere
4 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (12.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (8.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (64.00%) Ansible
3 14 (56.00%) Terraform
4 8 (32.00%) Nessus
5 7 (28.00%) vCenter Server
6 5 (20.00%) Nagios
7 4 (16.00%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (16.00%) Podman
7 4 (16.00%) Puppet
7 4 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (12.00%) Grafana
8 3 (12.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (36.00%) VMware
4 5 (20.00%) Splunk
5 2 (8.00%) Dell
5 2 (8.00%) D-Link
6 1 (4.00%) Atlassian