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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 25 41 46
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 7.49% 14.34% 10.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.68% 61.19% 54.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 34
10th Percentile £400 £548 £486
25th Percentile £500 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £706
90th Percentile £648 £775 £776
South West median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year - +180.41% -68.91%
75th Percentile - - £30.31
90th Percentile - - £33.13
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 63 67 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.86% 23.43% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 50 61
10th Percentile £156 £190 £200
25th Percentile £205 £372 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.93% +5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £625
90th Percentile £613 £775 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £57.63 - -
25th Percentile £114.88 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £195.00 £68.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +186.76% +288.57% -77.56%
75th Percentile £197.50 - £22.94
90th Percentile - - £30.63
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -5.06% +15.65% -11.54%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 19 £575 -6.50% 16
Gloucester -4 5 £400 -34.96% 14
Cirencester - 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 (16.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) GitHub
4 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.00%) npm
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.00%) IaaS
7 1 (4.00%) PaaS
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) AMQP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) DHCP
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) LAN
2 2 (8.00%) WAN
3 1 (4.00%) HTTP
3 1 (4.00%) NAS
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) SAN
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Wireless
3 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.00%) Legal
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Site Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Open Source Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) NOC Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.00%) LDAP
1 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (16.00%) Debian
3 4 (16.00%) Rocky
3 4 (16.00%) Windows
4 3 (12.00%) CentOS
5 2 (8.00%) Unix
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (16.00%) Open Source
8 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
9 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 4 (16.00%) Go
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (16.00%) Degree
4 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.00%) CCNA
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (60.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Grafana
5 2 (8.00%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.00%) Kibana
6 1 (4.00%) logstash
6 1 (4.00%) Nagios
6 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco
1 2 (8.00%) Dell
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 1 (4.00%) EMC
2 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (4.00%) NetScout
2 1 (4.00%) VMware