CentOS Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 587 684
Rank change year-on-year -42 +97 +12
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 73 340 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.02% 2.42% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 67 202 226
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,000 £70,881
90th Percentile £108,500 £92,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% - +2.11%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,159 14,054 15,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 13.56% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 10,700 10,440
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CentOS.

Salary trend for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CentOS over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CentOS in the UK

CentOS
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England -62 68 £60,000 +20.00% 80
UK excluding London -19 44 £47,500 -2.06% 53
London +61 29 £80,000 -5.88% 30
Work from Home +56 27 £60,000 +20.00% 56
South East -5 19 £45,000 -5.26% 21
North of England +32 11 £60,000 +100.00% 13
North West +1 11 £60,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands +41 9 £40,000 -13.51% 3
East Midlands +31 7 £40,000 -20.00%
Wales +41 4 £47,500 -5.00%
West Midlands +44 2 £60,000 +100.00% 2
East of England +50 1 £67,500 - 6

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (12.33%) Apache
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.48%) IIS
3 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 3 (4.11%) nginx
3 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.11%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.37%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.88%) AWS
2 18 (24.66%) Azure
3 7 (9.59%) GCP
4 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.11%) Nutanix
6 3 (4.11%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.74%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.37%) Datadog
8 1 (1.37%) GitHub
8 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.37%) PaaS
8 1 (1.37%) SaaS
8 1 (1.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.66%) DNS
2 16 (21.92%) Firewall
3 15 (20.55%) DHCP
4 7 (9.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (8.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (8.22%) VLAN
5 6 (8.22%) VPN
5 6 (8.22%) Wireshark
6 5 (6.85%) FIX Connectivity
7 3 (4.11%) Multicast
8 2 (2.74%) SAN
8 2 (2.74%) Telnet
9 1 (1.37%) HTTP
9 1 (1.37%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.37%) LAN
9 1 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.37%) SSL
9 1 (1.37%) VSAN
9 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) MySQL
2 7 (9.59%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.48%) MariaDB
4 4 (5.48%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.74%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (23.29%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) GitLab
3 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.37%) Maven
4 1 (1.37%) MSI
4 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 20 (27.40%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Banking
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Spanish Language
4 2 (2.74%) Games
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Back Office
5 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (21.92%) Administrator
1 16 (21.92%) Linux Administrator
2 9 (12.33%) Integration Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Analyst
5 6 (8.22%) NOC Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Support Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.85%) Applications Support Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) FIX Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) FIX Support Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Linux Support
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) SQL Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (4.11%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (4.11%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (4.11%) Node.js
3 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.37%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.37%) ColdBox
4 1 (1.37%) CSS
4 1 (1.37%) HTML
4 1 (1.37%) jQuery
4 1 (1.37%) JSON
4 1 (1.37%) Laravel
4 1 (1.37%) LDAP
4 1 (1.37%) Loki
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) RESTful
4 1 (1.37%) SOAP
4 1 (1.37%) Vue
4 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.59%) Derivative
2 7 (9.59%) Equities
2 7 (9.59%) Fixed Income
3 5 (6.85%) Bitcoin
3 5 (6.85%) Eurex
3 5 (6.85%) Hedge funds
3 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.48%) Clustering
4 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Linux
2 26 (35.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (34.25%) Ubuntu
4 21 (28.77%) Windows
5 17 (23.29%) Rocky
6 16 (21.92%) Unix
7 13 (17.81%) Windows Server
8 9 (12.33%) Solaris
9 6 (8.22%) Debian
10 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (4.11%) HPUX
12 2 (2.74%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (1.37%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) DevOps
2 17 (23.29%) CI/CD
3 14 (19.18%) Containerisation
4 13 (17.81%) Capacity Planning
5 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (15.07%) ITIL
5 11 (15.07%) Service Delivery
6 9 (12.33%) Batch Scripting
6 9 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.59%) Client Onboarding
8 7 (9.59%) Configuration Management
8 7 (9.59%) Low Latency
8 7 (9.59%) Network Monitoring
9 6 (8.22%) Information Security
9 6 (8.22%) Information Security Management
9 6 (8.22%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (8.22%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (8.22%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.62%) Python
2 24 (32.88%) Bash
3 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
3 12 (16.44%) SQL
4 10 (13.70%) PHP
5 5 (6.85%) Perl
6 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.37%) Go
7 1 (1.37%) Java
7 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) Degree
2 9 (12.33%) RHCE
3 7 (9.59%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) CCNA
4 6 (8.22%) CCNP
4 6 (8.22%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (8.22%) MCSA
4 6 (8.22%) MCSE
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.22%) Network+ Certification
4 6 (8.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.11%) Linux+ Certification
7 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) QA
2 5 (6.85%) SLA
3 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (24.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.70%) Docker
3 6 (8.22%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.48%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (5.48%) vSphere
5 3 (4.11%) Dovecot
5 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.11%) Postfix
6 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.37%) Firmware
7 1 (1.37%) KVM
Systems Management
1 34 (46.58%) Ansible
2 19 (26.03%) Grafana
3 11 (15.07%) Terraform
4 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
5 8 (10.96%) Nagios
5 8 (10.96%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.85%) Puppet
7 4 (5.48%) Proxmox
8 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.37%) Nessus
10 1 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (45.21%) Red Hat
2 27 (36.99%) VMware
3 20 (27.40%) Microsoft
4 10 (13.70%) Atlassian
5 8 (10.96%) Oracle
6 7 (9.59%) Cisco
7 6 (8.22%) Palo Alto
8 5 (6.85%) Bloomberg
8 5 (6.85%) CQG
8 5 (6.85%) ION Trading
8 5 (6.85%) Patsystems
8 5 (6.85%) Reuters
8 5 (6.85%) Trayport
9 4 (5.48%) Rapid7
9 4 (5.48%) Splunk
10 3 (4.11%) Okta
10 3 (4.11%) Ping Identity
10 3 (4.11%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.74%) Google
11 2 (2.74%) PagerDuty