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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 27 60 100
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 7.05% 16.26% 23.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.03% 68.97% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 62
10th Percentile £460 £474 £464
25th Percentile £481 £541 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £609 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +3.62% -6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £732 £729
90th Percentile £670 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £553
% change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £61.30 £68.40 £25.73
25th Percentile £65.61 £69.00 £41.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -5.41% +62.58%
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £78.70
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 93 87 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.28% 23.58% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 43 71
10th Percentile £180 £244 £406
25th Percentile £322 £419 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -6.52% +12.20%
75th Percentile £491 £638 £715
90th Percentile £579 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 12
10th Percentile £31.50 £68.40 £19.43
25th Percentile £63.22 £69.00 £24.94
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.66% +45.56%
75th Percentile £197.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £38.22 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -43.38% +8.00% -3.85%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 17 £550 -8.33% 22
Filton +5 4 - - 1
Gloucester -23 4 £600 -14.29% 14
Cirencester -1 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 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
1 7 (25.93%) OpenShift
2 6 (22.22%) npm
3 5 (18.52%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) AMQP
2 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) DHCP
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.41%) InfluxDB
3 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Impala
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) Maven
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (14.81%) Aviation
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Applications Support
2 4 (14.81%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Product Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Products Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IAM Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) IAM Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.70%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) OpenID
2 4 (14.81%) LDAP
2 4 (14.81%) SAML
3 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (11.11%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (3.70%) JSON Schema
4 1 (3.70%) NLTK
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) PKI
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (22.22%) CentOS
3 4 (14.81%) Windows
4 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 3 (11.11%) Unix
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.70%) Android
6 1 (3.70%) Windows 8
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
5 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) Microservices
6 5 (18.52%) Migration
7 4 (14.81%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
7 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
7 4 (14.81%) Web SSO
8 3 (11.11%) Agile
8 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 3 (11.11%) DevOps
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Bash
2 6 (22.22%) C
2 6 (22.22%) Java
2 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) Ada
4 3 (11.11%) C++
4 3 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (44.44%) DV Cleared
2 12 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (14.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.81%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Terraform
2 9 (33.33%) Ansible
3 7 (25.93%) Grafana
4 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
5 4 (14.81%) PingFederate
5 4 (14.81%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (11.11%) Kibana
7 2 (7.41%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (7.41%) logstash
7 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (3.70%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (3.70%) Podman
8 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 1 (3.70%) SCCM
8 1 (3.70%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
1 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 4 (14.81%) Ping Identity
3 2 (7.41%) Dell
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) McAfee
4 1 (3.70%) Symantec