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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 24 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.37% 14.84% 20.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.89% 74.19% 59.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 15
10th Percentile - £319 £470
25th Percentile £525 £525 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +7.44% +27.37%
75th Percentile £703 £800 £653
90th Percentile £775 £830 £778
Gloucestershire median daily rate £581 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +5.68% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £21.00 £78.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -73.08% +30.00% -

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 27 31 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 13.92% 20.00% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 31
10th Percentile £519 £202 £155
25th Percentile £525 £319 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +30.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £622
90th Percentile £775 £800 £663
Gloucestershire median daily rate £517 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -1.62% +23.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £14.00 £78.00 £15.74
% change year-on-year -82.05% +395.55% +12.19%

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 11 May 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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) OpenShift
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (25.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Network Security
2 5 (20.83%) AMQP
3 3 (12.50%) IPv4
3 3 (12.50%) OSPF
3 3 (12.50%) VLAN
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (25.00%) InfluxDB
1 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.33%) ADO
2 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) CentOS
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 9 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (33.33%) Observability
5 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 6 (25.00%) Service Management
6 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 3 (12.50%) Agile
7 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (8.33%) Open Source
8 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
9 1 (4.17%) Analytics
9 1 (4.17%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (4.17%) Coaching
9 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (4.17%) Mentoring
9 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) C
3 9 (37.50%) Java
4 7 (29.17%) Go
4 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
4 7 (29.17%) SQL
5 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
6 4 (16.67%) Bash
7 1 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) GIAC
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PhD
2 1 (4.17%) RHCE
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (70.83%) Ansible
2 16 (66.67%) Terraform
3 13 (54.17%) Kubernetes
4 11 (45.83%) Grafana
4 11 (45.83%) Prometheus
5 7 (29.17%) Progress Chef
6 5 (20.83%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (12.50%) Puppet
8 1 (4.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk