Linux Contracts in Cheltenham

Linux
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.71% 11.54% 19.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.46% 75.00% 61.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 15
10th Percentile - £319 £470
25th Percentile £525 £497 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +27.66%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £646
90th Percentile £775 £700 £730
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.33% +7.50%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 24 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 14.36% 15.38% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 29
10th Percentile £503 £165 £155
25th Percentile £525 £319 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £620
90th Percentile £775 £700 £659
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -10.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cheltenham.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cheltenham

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cheltenham.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) OpenShift
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (26.09%) Serverless
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Network Security
2 5 (21.74%) AMQP
3 3 (13.04%) IPv4
3 3 (13.04%) OSPF
3 3 (13.04%) VLAN
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (26.09%) InfluxDB
1 6 (26.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) JMeter
3 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.70%) ADO
2 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) CentOS
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Configuration Management
3 9 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (34.78%) Observability
5 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
5 6 (26.09%) Service Management
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Agile
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (8.70%) Open Source
8 2 (8.70%) Software Testing
9 1 (4.35%) Analytics
9 1 (4.35%) Business Development
9 1 (4.35%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (4.35%) Data Modelling
9 1 (4.35%) Load Balancing
9 1 (4.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) C
3 9 (39.13%) Java
4 7 (30.43%) Go
4 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
4 7 (30.43%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
6 4 (17.39%) Bash
7 1 (4.35%) C++
7 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) DV Cleared
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) GIAC
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) PhD
2 1 (4.35%) RHCE
System Software
1 20 (86.96%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Ansible
2 15 (65.22%) Terraform
3 13 (56.52%) Kubernetes
4 11 (47.83%) Grafana
4 11 (47.83%) Prometheus
5 7 (30.43%) Progress Chef
6 5 (21.74%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (13.04%) Puppet
8 1 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) VMware
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk