Linux Contracts in Gloucestershire

Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 46 80 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.93% 16.74% 11.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.12% 49.69% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 59 42
10th Percentile £486 £448 £432
25th Percentile £525 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.15% +8.75%
75th Percentile £706 £663 £598
90th Percentile £776 £700 £662
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile - £65.90 £65.70
25th Percentile £21.00 £70.50 £74.25
Median hourly rate £24.25 £78.00 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.91% -11.86% +47.50%
75th Percentile £30.31 - £102.75
90th Percentile £33.13 - £111.30
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 85 161 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.19% 33.68% 27.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 123 97
10th Percentile £200 £210 £140
25th Percentile £313 £400 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £550
90th Percentile £738 £698 £622
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile - £43.85 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £70.50 £11.17
Median hourly rate £17.50 £78.00 £16.62
Median % change year-on-year -77.56% +369.31% +18.46%
75th Percentile £22.94 - £30.00
90th Percentile £30.63 - £77.10
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.80% +118.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +5 23 £560 -13.85% 19
Gloucester +1 12 £600 +9.09% 6
Cirencester - 2 £575 -
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 6 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Serverless
3 7 (15.22%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Network Security
2 5 (10.87%) AMQP
2 5 (10.87%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.52%) IPv4
4 3 (6.52%) OSPF
4 3 (6.52%) VLAN
4 3 (6.52%) VPN
5 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.17%) DNS
6 1 (2.17%) NAS
6 1 (2.17%) SAN
6 1 (2.17%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (13.04%) InfluxDB
1 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
3 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.70%) GitLab
4 2 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.17%) JMeter
5 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (2.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Test Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Site Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) IT Technician
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Service Desk Technician
6 4 (8.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) RF Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) RF Test Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.35%) ADO
2 2 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.35%) PKI
2 2 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.17%) Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (39.13%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) CentOS
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Solaris
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) DevOps
2 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (19.57%) Configuration Management
4 9 (19.57%) Service Management
4 9 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (17.39%) Observability
6 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.04%) Event-Driven
7 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (10.87%) ITIL
9 4 (8.70%) Agile
9 4 (8.70%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.70%) Task Automation
10 3 (6.52%) Test Automation
11 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
11 2 (4.35%) Kalman Filter
11 2 (4.35%) Open Source
11 2 (4.35%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Python
2 16 (34.78%) C
3 15 (32.61%) PowerShell
4 12 (26.09%) Bash
4 12 (26.09%) Java
5 10 (21.74%) Go
6 8 (17.39%) SQL
7 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 30 (65.22%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) GIAC
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PhD
5 1 (2.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.17%) QA
1 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Docker
2 8 (17.39%) vSphere
3 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (56.52%) Ansible
2 24 (52.17%) Terraform
3 14 (30.43%) Kubernetes
4 11 (23.91%) Grafana
4 11 (23.91%) Prometheus
5 7 (15.22%) Progress Chef
6 5 (10.87%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (8.70%) Puppet
8 1 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.17%) Kibana
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Packer
8 1 (2.17%) SCCM
8 1 (2.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) VMware
2 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk