Rocky Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Rocky Linux
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Rocky skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rocky 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.00% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate - £700 -

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

Rocky 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 29 27 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 29.00% 22.69% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 18
10th Percentile - £529 £309
25th Percentile £156 £564 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £615 £555
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +10.81% -14.62%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £722
90th Percentile £647 £623 £741
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -29.17% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +223.81% -58.00%

Rocky
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes