CentOS Jobs in the UK excluding London

CentOS Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CentOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CentOS over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 515 575
Rank change year-on-year -22 +60 -81
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 38 251 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.74% 2.38% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34 145 133
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,400 £38,345
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% +2.11% +2.15%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £71,000 £79,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 5,168 10,556 9,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.02% 14.78% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,088 8,150 6,127
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,050 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for CentOS in the UK excluding London

CentOS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 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
North of England +38 12 £55,000 +83.33% 7
North West 0 12 £55,000 +22.22% 7
South East -5 12 £41,250 -13.16% 30
Midlands +38 9 £40,000 -13.51% 5
East Midlands +9 7 £40,000 -20.00%
Wales +41 4 £47,500 -5.00%
West Midlands +44 2 £60,000 +100.00% 3
East of England - 1 £67,500 - 13
CentOS
UK

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) Apache
2 3 (7.89%) IIS
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) Confluence
4 1 (2.63%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 2 (5.26%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Datadog
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) Firewall
2 10 (26.32%) DNS
3 8 (21.05%) DHCP
4 6 (15.79%) VPN
4 6 (15.79%) Wireshark
5 3 (7.89%) HTTP
5 3 (7.89%) SSL
5 3 (7.89%) VLAN
6 2 (5.26%) FTP
6 2 (5.26%) HTTPS
6 2 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (5.26%) SAN
6 2 (5.26%) SSH
6 2 (5.26%) VSAN
7 1 (2.63%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.63%) LTE
7 1 (2.63%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.63%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) MySQL
2 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.53%) MariaDB
3 4 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.26%) Big Data
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.63%) Maven
2 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Back Office
4 1 (2.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (23.68%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) NOC Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Administrator
3 5 (13.16%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Server Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) VMWare Administrator
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Loki
2 2 (5.26%) EDI
2 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.26%) LAMP
2 2 (5.26%) XML
3 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.63%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.63%) ColdBox
3 1 (2.63%) CSS
3 1 (2.63%) HTML
3 1 (2.63%) jQuery
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) Laravel
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (2.63%) Vue
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Data Centre
2 7 (18.42%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) Clustering
3 3 (7.89%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (5.26%) Life Science
4 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (68.42%) Ubuntu
3 17 (44.74%) Windows
4 13 (34.21%) Windows Server
5 7 (18.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (18.42%) Rocky
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (10.53%) Debian
8 2 (5.26%) AIX
8 2 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) DevOps
1 11 (28.95%) Service Delivery
2 9 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (21.05%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.79%) Information Security
5 6 (15.79%) Information Security Management
5 6 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (15.79%) Security Management
6 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.16%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (13.16%) Process Improvement
7 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.53%) Security Patching
7 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (7.89%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (7.89%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.05%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) Bash
4 5 (13.16%) PHP
5 2 (5.26%) AWK
5 2 (5.26%) C
5 2 (5.26%) C++
5 2 (5.26%) Korn
5 2 (5.26%) Perl
6 1 (2.63%) Go
6 1 (2.63%) Java
6 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) CCNA
2 6 (15.79%) CCNP
2 6 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (15.79%) MCSA
2 6 (15.79%) MCSE
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (15.79%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) Linux+ Certification
4 3 (7.89%) RHCE
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) HNC
6 1 (2.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) SLA
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (15.79%) Docker
3 6 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (15.79%) vSphere
4 5 (13.16%) Postfix
5 4 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (7.89%) Dovecot
6 3 (7.89%) Hyper-V
6 3 (7.89%) KVM
6 3 (7.89%) VMware NSX
7 2 (5.26%) Sendmail
8 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (31.58%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.79%) Terraform
4 5 (13.16%) Grafana
5 4 (10.53%) Nessus
6 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.89%) Puppet
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (5.26%) Nagios
7 2 (5.26%) Proxmox
7 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
1 20 (52.63%) VMware
2 14 (36.84%) Red Hat
3 7 (18.42%) Cisco
4 6 (15.79%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.89%) Okta
5 3 (7.89%) Ping Identity
6 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.26%) Google
6 2 (5.26%) IBM
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle
6 2 (5.26%) PagerDuty
6 2 (5.26%) SAP
6 2 (5.26%) Tenable
7 1 (2.63%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.63%) Dell
7 1 (2.63%) New Relic
7 1 (2.63%) Sophos