CoreOS Job Trends in the South West

CoreOS
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring CoreOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 - 206
Rank change year-on-year - - +66
Permanent jobs citing CoreOS 2 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.039% - 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.38% - 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £46,500 - -
25th Percentile £46,875 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £52,500
75th Percentile £58,125 - £58,750
90th Percentile £58,500 - -
England median annual salary £52,500 £94,637 £52,500
% change year-on-year -44.52% +80.26% -

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 529 820 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.41% 19.77% 19.76%
Number of salaries quoted 301 503 747
10th Percentile £26,500 £10,258 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

CoreOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

CoreOS job vacancy trend in the South West

CoreOS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing CoreOS

CoreOS
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 CoreOS within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Gloucestershire - 2 £52,500 - 1
CoreOS
England

CoreOS
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee