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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 14 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +18
Contract jobs citing Linux 26 61 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.70% 12.84% 18.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.00% 64.21% 56.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 42 57
10th Percentile £520 £491 £450
25th Percentile £575 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +9.09% +6.02%
75th Percentile £718 £666 £675
90th Percentile £785 £723 £725
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 16
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £77.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +30.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £87.50
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.70% +0.93%

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 50 95 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.58% 20.00% 33.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 66 99
10th Percentile £184 £319 £275
25th Percentile £221 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +27.06%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £653
90th Percentile £756 £700 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -6.98% +3.37% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 17
10th Percentile - - £70.30
25th Percentile - £14.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -46.15% +395.55%
75th Percentile - £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £87.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +24.63%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +4 16 £613 - 19
Gloucester -1 4 £615 +2.50% 31
Filton +3 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 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 12 (46.15%) AWS
3 9 (34.62%) Azure
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) DHCP
1 8 (30.77%) DNS
1 8 (30.77%) HTTP
1 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) Flink
2 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) GitLab
3 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.69%) Git
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Lead
1 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Test Leader
2 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Automation Tester
2 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Software Tester
2 3 (11.54%) Tester
3 2 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
4 1 (3.85%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (7.69%) REST
1 2 (7.69%) Spring
1 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) JPA
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) Qt
2 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) Vue
2 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Android
3 1 (3.85%) CentOS
3 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Containerisation
2 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
4 8 (30.77%) Software Testing
5 7 (26.92%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (23.08%) Service Management
7 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Validation
8 3 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (7.69%) Microservices
9 2 (7.69%) Observability
9 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
10 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 1 (3.85%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) Bash
3 9 (34.62%) Python
4 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
5 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.69%) SQL
7 1 (3.85%) Ada
7 1 (3.85%) C
7 1 (3.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (88.46%) Security Cleared
2 22 (84.62%) DV Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Def Stans
1 1 (3.85%) IEC 61508
1 1 (3.85%) MISRA
1 1 (3.85%) MISRA C
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Docker
2 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
3 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (69.23%) Ansible
2 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (50.00%) Terraform
3 8 (30.77%) Puppet
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
5 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (3.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Red Hat
1 8 (30.77%) VMware
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian