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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Linux 26 38 43
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 8.36% 14.50% 10.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.39% 59.38% 51.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 34
10th Percentile £340 £543 £488
25th Percentile £400 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +5.81% +5.68%
75th Percentile £613 £704 £688
90th Percentile - £775 £775
South West median daily rate £546 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.96% +5.26% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +223.81% -73.08%
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +6.87%

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 66 64 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.22% 24.43% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 62
10th Percentile £156 £184 £201
25th Percentile £205 £316 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £575 £517
Median % change year-on-year -40.87% +11.33% -1.62%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £613 £775 £724
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £57.63 - -
25th Percentile £114.88 - -
Median hourly rate £195.00 £68.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.76% +385.71% -82.05%
75th Percentile £197.50 - £19.25
90th Percentile - - £21.00
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +4.00% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -8 18 £575 -6.50% 12
Gloucester -6 5 £400 -34.96% 12
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 4 (15.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) GitHub
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.85%) IaaS
7 1 (3.85%) npm
7 1 (3.85%) PaaS
7 1 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) AMQP
2 2 (7.69%) DHCP
2 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) HTTP
3 1 (3.85%) NAS
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) SAN
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Wireless
3 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 3 (11.54%) Legal
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Site Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Open Source Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) NOC Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.85%) LDAP
1 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (23.08%) Ubuntu
2 6 (23.08%) Windows
3 4 (15.38%) Debian
3 4 (15.38%) Rocky
4 3 (11.54%) CentOS
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 15 (57.69%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (26.92%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (15.38%) Open Source
8 4 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
9 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (7.69%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) Go
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (53.85%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.85%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (3.85%) Kibana
5 1 (3.85%) logstash
5 1 (3.85%) Nagios
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Cisco
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Dell
2 1 (3.85%) EMC
2 1 (3.85%) Infoblox
2 1 (3.85%) NetScout
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) VMware