Linux Contracts in Cheltenham

Linux
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing Linux 21 23 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 33.87% 12.37% 11.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 95.45% 88.46% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 14
10th Percentile £530 - £319
25th Percentile £575 £525 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £725 £694
90th Percentile £625 £775 £700
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% +9.09% +2.33%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 22 26 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 35.48% 13.98% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 19
10th Percentile £530 £503 £165
25th Percentile £575 £525 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £659 £688
90th Percentile £625 £775 £700
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +17.65%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 (4.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DHCP
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
1 7 (33.33%) HTTP
1 7 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Flink
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
2 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (19.05%) Lead
1 4 (19.05%) Test Leader
2 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ModSecurity
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) Spring
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.76%) JPA
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Service Management
3 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Validation
5 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Microservices
6 2 (9.52%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (4.76%) Release Management
7 1 (4.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 7 (33.33%) Bash
3 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (23.81%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 17 (80.95%) DV Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Docker
2 7 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (52.38%) Ansible
3 10 (47.62%) Terraform
4 7 (33.33%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 7 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft