CentOS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CentOS Linux
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 488 530
Rank change year-on-year -44 +42 +30
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 50 38 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.13% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.31% 0.77% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35 34 146
10th Percentile £38,250 £37,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,750 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -5.67% +1.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £71,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -9.09%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,815 4,926 10,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.72% 16.85% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,892 2,970 8,141
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,987 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CentOS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CentOS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CentOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CentOS

CentOS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
South East -8 25 £70,000 +69.70% 9
South West - 13 £47,500 - 2
North West -1 5 £53,750 -2.27% 1
Midlands -31 5 £26,265 -34.34% 2
North of England -42 5 £53,750 -2.27% 6
East Midlands -26 3 £26,265 -34.34% 2
West Midlands -40 2 - -
East of England -12 1 £70,000 +3.70% 1
Scotland - 1 £37,500 -
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (14.00%) Apache
2 5 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.00%) OpenStack
3 3 (6.00%) Confluence
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 17 (34.00%) OpenShift
4 11 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (22.00%) SaaS
5 8 (16.00%) GCP
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Stack
6 5 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) DNS
2 8 (16.00%) HTTP
3 6 (12.00%) Firewall
4 5 (10.00%) AMQP
5 4 (8.00%) LAN
5 4 (8.00%) Network Security
5 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (8.00%) WAN
6 3 (6.00%) DHCP
6 3 (6.00%) VSAN
7 2 (4.00%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.00%) PBX
7 2 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (4.00%) SAN
7 2 (4.00%) VPN
8 1 (2.00%) Ethernet
8 1 (2.00%) InfiniBand
8 1 (2.00%) NX-OS
8 1 (2.00%) VLAN
8 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) InfluxDB
2 5 (10.00%) Big Data
2 5 (10.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 5 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.00%) MySQL
3 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.00%) JIRA
3 5 (10.00%) Robot Framework
3 5 (10.00%) TestRail
4 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.00%) Selenium
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Linux Support
2 11 (22.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Administrator
5 3 (6.00%) Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Graduate
5 3 (6.00%) IT Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Support Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Systems Support
5 3 (6.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 5 (10.00%) gRPC
2 5 (10.00%) Material-UI
2 5 (10.00%) Node.js
2 5 (10.00%) OpenAPI
2 5 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (10.00%) React
2 5 (10.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) Spring
2 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.00%) Swagger
3 4 (8.00%) Playwright
3 4 (8.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (100.00%) Linux
2 28 (56.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (48.00%) Ubuntu
4 20 (40.00%) Windows
5 15 (30.00%) Windows Server
6 10 (20.00%) Debian
7 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (6.00%) CoreOS
9 3 (6.00%) SUSE
9 3 (6.00%) VMS
10 1 (2.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (48.00%) Agile
3 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (28.00%) Containerisation
5 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) ITIL
7 10 (20.00%) Migration
8 9 (18.00%) DevOps
9 8 (16.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
11 6 (12.00%) Application Packaging
11 6 (12.00%) DevSecOps
11 6 (12.00%) Open Source
12 5 (10.00%) API Development
12 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 5 (10.00%) Observability
12 5 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) Python
2 24 (48.00%) PowerShell
3 21 (42.00%) Bash
4 11 (22.00%) PHP
5 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (16.00%) Perl
7 5 (10.00%) Java
8 2 (4.00%) C
8 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (6.00%) RHCE
6 2 (4.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 14 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.00%) vSphere
4 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (4.00%) Samba
8 1 (2.00%) GPFS
8 1 (2.00%) Lustre
8 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (54.00%) Ansible
3 25 (50.00%) Terraform
4 11 (22.00%) Puppet
5 9 (18.00%) Grafana
5 9 (18.00%) vCenter Server
6 6 (12.00%) Nagios
6 6 (12.00%) Nessus
7 4 (8.00%) Kibana
7 4 (8.00%) logstash
8 3 (6.00%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (6.00%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (6.00%) Podman
8 3 (6.00%) SCVMM
8 3 (6.00%) ZABBIX
9 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
9 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (66.00%) Red Hat
2 14 (28.00%) VMware
3 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (20.00%) Splunk
5 5 (10.00%) Google
5 5 (10.00%) SaltStack
6 4 (8.00%) Atlassian
7 3 (6.00%) McAfee
8 2 (4.00%) Cisco
8 2 (4.00%) Dell
8 2 (4.00%) D-Link
9 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.00%) Juniper
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle