Hybrid/Remote CentOS Job Trends

CentOS Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring CentOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 396 418
Rank change year-on-year -41 +22 +36
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 12 32 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.053% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.76% 1.54% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10 30 85
10th Percentile £26,265 £46,200 -
25th Percentile £31,261 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.71% -20.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 - £92,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% +26.32% -17.39%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

CentOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,572 2,072 3,225
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.95% 12.57% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,223 1,205 2,359
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £33,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -8.57%

CentOS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CentOS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CentOS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

CentOS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CentOS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CentOS

CentOS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CentOS over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

CentOS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

CentOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) InfluxDB
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Graduate
2 3 (25.00%) Graduate Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Graduate Systems Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Support
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Support
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) Support Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (25.00%) Debian
3 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (25.00%) SUSE
3 3 (25.00%) VMS
4 2 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (8.33%) Solaris
5 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Coaching
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (25.00%) Ticket Management
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.33%) Project Management
6 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Service Management
6 1 (8.33%) Software Deployment
6 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) RHCE
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) RHCSA
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
1 4 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (8.33%) KVM
4 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
3 3 (25.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam