CentOS Job Trends in the South West

CentOS Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring CentOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 180 185
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +76
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 7 20 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.46% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.29% 2.38% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 22
10th Percentile £47,000 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,125 £36,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +13.51% -19.57%
75th Percentile £62,813 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,875 £72,500 £61,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -2.78%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 544 839 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.84% 19.36% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 312 529 734
10th Percentile £26,500 £10,258 £28,353
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,805 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% -18.37% +8.59%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in the South West

CentOS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CentOS

CentOS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the South West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CentOS in the South West

CentOS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Gloucestershire +21 7 £56,250 +2.27% 4
CentOS
England

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) VSAN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
3 2 (28.57%) TestRail
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (28.57%) CoreOS
7 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Time Management
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
2 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
3 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (42.86%) SCVMM
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) McAfee
3 2 (28.57%) Splunk
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) VMware