CentOS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CentOS Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 492 534
Rank change year-on-year +99 +42 +23
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 22 91 143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.18% 1.93% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 21 87 116
10th Percentile - £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1,863 4,715 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.16% 13.94% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 3,670 4,829
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

CentOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CentOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CentOS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CentOS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CentOS.

CentOS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CentOS over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

CentOS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CentOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (13.64%) IIS
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (9.09%) nginx
2 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.55%) ColdFusion
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
5 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DNS
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) FTP
3 2 (9.09%) HTTP
3 2 (9.09%) HTTPS
3 2 (9.09%) Multicast
3 2 (9.09%) SSH
3 2 (9.09%) SSL
3 2 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) MySQL
2 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
3 4 (18.18%) MariaDB
3 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Games
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Administrator
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (31.82%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (27.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (18.18%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) IT Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Unix Systems Administrator
8 1 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) EDI
1 2 (9.09%) LAMP
1 2 (9.09%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (9.09%) Loki
1 2 (9.09%) Node.js
1 2 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
2 1 (4.55%) ColdBox
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) jQuery
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) Laravel
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
2 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (4.55%) Vue
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Life Science
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (9.09%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Ubuntu
3 6 (27.27%) Windows
4 4 (18.18%) Debian
4 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Unix
5 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (9.09%) AIX
6 2 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (9.09%) Rocky
6 2 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 4 (18.18%) Low Latency
6 4 (18.18%) Security Patching
7 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (13.64%) Identity Management
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Bash
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) PHP
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) AWK
4 2 (9.09%) C
4 2 (9.09%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) Korn
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) RHCE
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
2 3 (13.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (22.73%) Docker
3 5 (22.73%) Postfix
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (18.18%) vSphere
5 3 (13.64%) Dovecot
5 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
5 3 (13.64%) pfSense
6 2 (9.09%) KVM
6 2 (9.09%) Sendmail
6 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Nagios
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Nessus
4 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Red Hat
1 12 (54.55%) VMware
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Okta
3 3 (13.64%) Ping Identity
4 2 (9.09%) IBM
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Rapid7
4 2 (9.09%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 2 (9.09%) Tenable