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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 30 53 70
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 8.04% 16.21% 16.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.91% 65.43% 65.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 43
10th Percentile £459 £546 £420
25th Percentile £472 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -1.60% +2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £734 £744
90th Percentile £674 £775 £776
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £61.30 - £21.00
25th Percentile £65.61 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.76%

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 94 81 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.20% 24.77% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 45 65
10th Percentile £156 £315 £200
25th Percentile £303 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £488 £631 £688
90th Percentile £581 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 15
10th Percentile £26.78 - £14.00
25th Percentile £51.70 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +223.81% -58.00%
75th Percentile £197.50 - £70.25
90th Percentile - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £53.60
% change year-on-year -40.74% +25.93% -17.53%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -3 17 £550 -10.57% 9
Gloucester -17 7 £550 -21.43% 10
Filton +6 4 - - 1
Cirencester - 1 £575 -
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 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub
4 4 (13.33%) npm
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) AMQP
2 2 (6.67%) DHCP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) LAN
3 1 (3.33%) NAS
3 1 (3.33%) SAN
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
1 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) Impala
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) GitLab
2 4 (13.33%) Maven
3 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Aviation
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Applications Support
2 4 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Product Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Products Support Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Software Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) IAM Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) IAM Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) LDAP
1 5 (16.67%) OpenID
2 4 (13.33%) SAML
3 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (10.00%) Middleware
4 2 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.33%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) JSON Schema
5 1 (3.33%) NLTK
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) PKI
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (13.33%) CentOS
3 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (10.00%) Unix
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.33%) Android
6 1 (3.33%) Debian
6 1 (3.33%) Rocky
6 1 (3.33%) Windows 8
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (23.33%) DevOps
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Microservices
6 5 (16.67%) Migration
6 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
7 4 (13.33%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
7 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Bash
2 6 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) C
4 4 (13.33%) Java
5 3 (10.00%) Ada
5 3 (10.00%) C++
5 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.67%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) Degree
6 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (23.33%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) Grafana
5 5 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (13.33%) Kibana
6 4 (13.33%) PingFederate
7 3 (10.00%) logstash
8 2 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (3.33%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (3.33%) Podman
9 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
9 1 (3.33%) SCCM
9 1 (3.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Ping Identity
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) Dell
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) EMC
5 1 (3.33%) McAfee
5 1 (3.33%) Symantec
5 1 (3.33%) VMware