CentOS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

CentOS Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CentOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 157 219
Rank change year-on-year -8 +62 +27
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 2 6 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.043% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.56% 1.45% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 20
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile - - £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +56.29%
75th Percentile - - £71,000
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +13.25%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 355 414 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.55% 14.67% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 280 301 842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,250
South East median annual salary £42,500 £46,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -8.60% +9.41% -

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CentOS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CentOS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CentOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CentOS

CentOS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) PBX
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
1 2 (100.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) D-Link
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat