Linux Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 25 40 50
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 7.40% 14.44% 11.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.88% 65.57% 54.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 34
10th Percentile £403 £550 £408
25th Percentile £463 £589 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +2.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £704 £734
90th Percentile £665 £775 £776
South West median daily rate £539 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.21% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £59.39 - -
25th Percentile £60.82 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.57 £68.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +147.27% -64.74%
75th Percentile £67.96 - £35.00
90th Percentile £67.98 - £51.50
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +6.87%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 66 61 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.53% 22.02% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 44 64
10th Percentile £156 £210 £190
25th Percentile £205 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +33.33% -15.09%
75th Percentile £497 £631 £628
90th Percentile £581 £775 £768
South West median daily rate £490 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 9
10th Percentile £30.45 - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £89.00 £68.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.88% +223.81% -73.08%
75th Percentile £197.50 - £28.75
90th Percentile - - £40.50
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £52.21
% change year-on-year -5.06% +27.38% -19.68%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Linux job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux

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 29 March 2026. 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 -8 16 £550 -10.57% 16
Gloucester -5 7 £406 -33.94% 12
Filton +4 2 - - 5
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (12.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) GitHub
4 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.00%) npm
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.00%) IaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.00%) PaaS
8 1 (4.00%) SaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) AMQP
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) NAS
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) SAN
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (16.00%) Aviation
2 3 (12.00%) Legal
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Open Source Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
3 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) IAM Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) IAM Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Product Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Products Support Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) LDAP
2 4 (16.00%) OpenID
2 4 (16.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
3 3 (12.00%) Debian
3 3 (12.00%) Rocky
4 2 (8.00%) CentOS
4 2 (8.00%) Unix
5 1 (4.00%) Android
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 8
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Web SSO
7 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Bash
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.00%) Go
5 2 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Ada
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.00%) Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (16.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (16.00%) GDPR
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (16.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Ansible
3 5 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (16.00%) Grafana
4 4 (16.00%) PingFederate
5 2 (8.00%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.00%) Kibana
6 1 (4.00%) logstash
6 1 (4.00%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.00%) SCCM
6 1 (4.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Ping Identity
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) Dell
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) EMC
4 1 (4.00%) McAfee
4 1 (4.00%) Symantec
4 1 (4.00%) VMware