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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 479 454
Rank change year-on-year -22 -25 +108
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 21 79 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.63% 1.43% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15 38 92
10th Percentile - £37,500 £38,008
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £63,000 - £71,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%

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 3,336 5,538 5,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.83% 15.39% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 2,930 4,547
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,236
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £45,819 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

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 15 January 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 15 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
South East -6 9 £47,500 +5.56% 5
South West -10 7 £56,250 +21.62% 9
North West +26 5 £53,750 -14.00% 1
North of England +10 5 £53,750 -14.00% 2
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 3 (14.29%) Apache
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) OpenShift
3 9 (42.86%) SaaS
4 8 (38.10%) Azure
5 4 (19.05%) GCP
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (14.29%) Serverless
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) DNS
2 5 (23.81%) HTTP
3 4 (19.05%) VSAN
4 3 (14.29%) AMQP
4 3 (14.29%) DHCP
4 3 (14.29%) Firewall
4 3 (14.29%) LAN
4 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 3 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (4.76%) VLAN
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Big Data
1 3 (14.29%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.52%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Robot Framework
3 2 (9.52%) TestRail
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Linux Support
1 7 (33.33%) Linux Support Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Implementation Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Implementation Specialist
3 4 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Linux Specialist
3 4 (19.05%) Product Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Product Specialist
3 4 (19.05%) Products Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Products Support Specialist
3 4 (19.05%) Support Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 3 (14.29%) gRPC
1 3 (14.29%) Material-UI
1 3 (14.29%) Node.js
1 3 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (14.29%) React
1 3 (14.29%) REST
1 3 (14.29%) Spring
1 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 3 (14.29%) Swagger
2 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
1 4 (19.05%) Video on Demand
1 4 (19.05%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Windows
4 4 (19.05%) Ubuntu
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
5 3 (14.29%) Debian
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (9.52%) CoreOS
7 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (19.05%) High Availability
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Time Management
4 3 (14.29%) API Development
4 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Kanban
4 3 (14.29%) Microservices
4 3 (14.29%) Open Source
4 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 11 (52.38%) Bash
3 9 (42.86%) Perl
4 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 5 (23.81%) PHP
6 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
7 3 (14.29%) Java
7 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (28.57%) Ansible
3 5 (23.81%) Terraform
4 4 (19.05%) Puppet
5 3 (14.29%) Grafana
5 3 (14.29%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (14.29%) SCVMM
6 1 (4.76%) Nagios
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) McAfee
2 3 (14.29%) SaltStack
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) Rapid7