Linux Contracts in Gloucester

Linux
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 16 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 12 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 7.69% 14.29% 22.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.00% 54.55% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 25
10th Percentile £510 £121 £463
25th Percentile £550 £298 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £661 £625 £625
90th Percentile £740 - £675
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% +9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £24.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.91% -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £24.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +180.41% -68.91% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 22 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 21.98% 26.19% 58.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 67
10th Percentile £207 £129 £200
25th Percentile £381 £200 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +49.61%
75th Percentile £586 £625 £600
90th Percentile £669 - £643
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £24.40
25th Percentile - £21.00 £44.50
Median hourly rate - £24.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.91% -
75th Percentile - £30.31 -
90th Percentile - £33.13 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £17.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +288.57% -77.56% +395.55%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Gloucester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Gloucester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Gloucester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Gloucester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Rocky
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Dell