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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 502 510
Rank change year-on-year +66 +8 +90
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 30 95 118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.17% 2.03% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28 89 103
10th Percentile £46,250 - £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £71,175
90th Percentile - £92,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 2,561 4,673 5,629
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.01% 13.04% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 3,518 4,214
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,150
Median % change year-on-year - -9.34% +0.27%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,603 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £83,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -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 21 June 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 4 (13.33%) IIS
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) nginx
2 2 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.33%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) Multicast
3 2 (6.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) MySQL
2 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.33%) MariaDB
3 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Games
4 1 (3.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Administrator
1 14 (46.67%) Linux Administrator
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 6 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (13.33%) Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Linux Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Linux Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) LEMP Stack
1 2 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.33%) ColdBox
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) jQuery
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) LAMP
2 1 (3.33%) Laravel
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (3.33%) Vue
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Clustering
1 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (36.67%) Solaris
3 11 (36.67%) Unix
4 9 (30.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (16.67%) Windows
5 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 4 (13.33%) HPUX
6 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (6.67%) Debian
7 2 (6.67%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (13.33%) Identity Management
6 4 (13.33%) ITIL
6 4 (13.33%) Security Patching
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
8 2 (6.67%) Load Balancing
8 2 (6.67%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Bash
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) RHCE
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 4 (13.33%) Linux+ Certification
3 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
1 4 (13.33%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (13.33%) Docker
4 4 (13.33%) Dovecot
4 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (13.33%) Postfix
4 4 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (13.33%) vSphere
5 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Nagios
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.33%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) VMware
2 16 (53.33%) Red Hat
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (13.33%) Okta
4 4 (13.33%) Ping Identity
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (3.33%) Perforce