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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 21 71 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.77% 15.92% 24.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.25% 74.74% 70.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 37 74
10th Percentile £450 £503 £476
25th Percentile £525 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £712
90th Percentile £669 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile £68.20 - £70.50
25th Percentile £68.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -10.26% +54.41%
75th Percentile £69.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.80 - £86.50
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.55% +7.11%

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 80 95 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.81% 21.30% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 51 99
10th Percentile £188 £338 £415
25th Percentile £225 £460 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -2.17% +17.95%
75th Percentile £488 £635 £700
90th Percentile £600 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £425 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -19.05% +0.48% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 20
10th Percentile £30.23 - £64.93
25th Percentile £44.39 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +155.61%
75th Percentile £69.00 - -
90th Percentile £69.60 - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £33.75 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -51.79% +7.69% -

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 +1 13 £575 -4.17% 17
Gloucester -15 3 £600 - 12
Filton +4 2 - - 4
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 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) npm
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) AMQP
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) Flink
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 6 (28.57%) GitLab
3 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 3 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 3 (14.29%) Git
3 3 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Software Tester
2 3 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 3 (14.29%) Tester
3 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Products Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Software Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) Qt
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Vue
3 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) CentOS
1 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
3 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 7 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (14.29%) Microservices
7 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Observability
7 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Validation
8 2 (9.52%) Case Management
8 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (9.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 2 (9.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) C
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (9.52%) Ada
5 2 (9.52%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 15 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Def Stans
1 1 (4.76%) IEC 61508
1 1 (4.76%) MISRA
1 1 (4.76%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Ansible
2 6 (28.57%) Grafana
2 6 (28.57%) Terraform
3 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
4 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.52%) Kibana
5 2 (9.52%) logstash
5 2 (9.52%) Podman
6 1 (4.76%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft