Linux Contracts in Gloucestershire

Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 8 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 39 45 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.23% 10.49% 16.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.90% 52.33% 49.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 58
10th Percentile £545 £484 £447
25th Percentile £575 £525 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £649
90th Percentile £775 £776 £700
South West median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £65.90
25th Percentile - £21.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £24.25 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.41% -68.91% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £30.31 -
90th Percentile - £33.13 -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +0.77%

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 63 86 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.99% 20.05% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 62 123
10th Percentile £186 £201 £210
25th Percentile £331 £316 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £736 £688
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - - £43.85
25th Percentile - £14.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £17.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +288.57% -77.56% +395.55%
75th Percentile - £22.94 -
90th Percentile - £30.63 -
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

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 1 May 2025. 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 +11 21 £615 +9.82% 14
Gloucester -5 7 £615 +2.50% 28
Filton - 1 - - 2
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (10.26%) Apache
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) AWS
1 20 (51.28%) OpenShift
2 17 (43.59%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (38.46%) DHCP
1 15 (38.46%) DNS
1 15 (38.46%) HTTP
1 15 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.69%) Big Data
4 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.56%) Flink
6 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
2 4 (10.26%) Cypress.io
3 3 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Test Leader
5 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Tester
7 1 (2.56%) Ada Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (7.69%) YAML
2 2 (5.13%) ModSecurity
2 2 (5.13%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) Spring
2 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.56%) JPA
3 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.56%) React
3 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 18 (46.15%) Windows
1 18 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Rocky
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Containerisation
2 14 (35.90%) DevOps
2 14 (35.90%) Service Management
3 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (15.38%) Agile
5 6 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
7 4 (10.26%) Validation
8 3 (7.69%) Data Engineering
8 3 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (7.69%) ETL
8 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (7.69%) Observability
8 3 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) Java
2 18 (46.15%) Python
3 15 (38.46%) Bash
3 15 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 9 (23.08%) SQL
5 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Ada
Qualifications
1 34 (87.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (69.23%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 26 (66.67%) Docker
2 16 (41.03%) Hyper-V
3 14 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 23 (58.97%) Ansible
3 21 (53.85%) Terraform
4 15 (38.46%) Puppet
5 4 (10.26%) Grafana
5 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.69%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Red Hat
1 15 (38.46%) VMware
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) Dell