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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 25 17 70
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 6.14% 6.91% 15.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.32% 39.53% 78.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 43
10th Percentile £340 £503 £478
25th Percentile £400 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +1.04% -
75th Percentile £625 £681 £635
90th Percentile £875 £742 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -2.86% +6.70%

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 62 43 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 15.23% 17.48% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 29 57
10th Percentile £205 £168 £360
25th Percentile £309 £183 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £250 £563
Median % change year-on-year +93.00% -55.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £660 £679 £725
South West median daily rate £495 £463 £533
% change year-on-year +7.03% -13.23% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.62 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.26% - -10.26%
75th Percentile £27.69 - -
90th Percentile £34.32 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +111.98% -73.04% +7.69%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -9 16 £575 -4.17% 28
Gloucester -7 3 £400 -36.00% 26
Cirencester - 2 £340 -
Lechlade - 1 £340 -
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
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
3 3 (12.00%) DHCP
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) VLAN
5 1 (4.00%) AMQP
5 1 (4.00%) LAN
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (4.00%) VPN
5 1 (4.00%) WAN
5 1 (4.00%) Wireless
5 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Site Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Open Source Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) QA Test Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) C++ Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) NOC Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (12.00%) CentOS
4 3 (12.00%) Debian
4 3 (12.00%) Rocky
4 3 (12.00%) Unix
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (52.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (12.00%) Agile
7 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (12.00%) Open Source
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.00%) Validation
8 2 (8.00%) Observability
8 2 (8.00%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) Go
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) C
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) Rust
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.00%) VirtualBox
4 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (56.00%) Terraform
3 6 (24.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Nagios
4 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco
2 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (4.00%) NetScout
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat