CoreOS Job Trends

CoreOS
UK

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 679 770
Rank change year-on-year +11 +91 +232
Permanent jobs citing CoreOS 4 2 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.004% 0.038%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.077% 0.027% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 26
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £90,801 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £94,637 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -47.17% +80.26% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57,188 £98,474 £59,688
90th Percentile £58,875 - £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £94,637 £52,500
% change year-on-year -44.52% +80.26% -22.38%

All Operating Systems
UK

CoreOS 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 5,187 7,421 11,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.64% 15.09% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 4,166 9,483
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.95% +11.76% -5.56%

CoreOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CoreOS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CoreOS job vacancy trend in the UK

CoreOS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CoreOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CoreOS

CoreOS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CoreOS over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for CoreOS in the UK

CoreOS
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CoreOS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 February 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
England +39 4 £50,000 -47.17% 3
UK excluding London +9 3 £52,500 -44.52% 3
South West - 2 £56,250 - 1
North West +7 1 £47,500 -49.81% 1
North of England -18 1 £47,500 -49.81% 2
London - 1 £47,500 -

CoreOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) VSAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) CentOS
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Time Management
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
1 4 (100.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) McAfee
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat