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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 20 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 25 24 69
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 5.58% 7.82% 15.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.86% 28.24% 74.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 35
10th Percentile £340 £450 £498
25th Percentile £400 £525 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.09% +0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £606 £700
90th Percentile £875 £625 £734
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -10.26%
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -2.86% +3.53%

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 57 85 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.72% 27.69% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 59 49
10th Percentile £201 £190 £338
25th Percentile £325 £225 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £383 £563
Median % change year-on-year +34.64% -32.00% -2.17%
75th Percentile £613 £481 £675
90th Percentile £685 £580 £734
South West median daily rate £540 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +27.06% -18.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile - £34.95 -
25th Percentile - £56.20 -
Median hourly rate £16.62 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.56% -2.86% -10.26%
75th Percentile - £68.50 -
90th Percentile £29.90 £69.40 -
South West median hourly rate £38.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +51.09% -64.07% +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 30 September 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 30 September 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 15 £575 +4.55% 56
Gloucester +11 3 £350 -41.67% 50
Cirencester 0 2 £340 -40.87% 2
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
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
2 1 (4.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
3 3 (12.00%) DHCP
3 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.00%) VLAN
4 1 (4.00%) LAN
4 1 (4.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.00%) WAN
4 1 (4.00%) Wireless
4 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) DataStage
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (4.00%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Site Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Open Source Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) QA Test Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Technician
6 1 (4.00%) IT Technician
6 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) NOC Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) XML
2 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Ubuntu
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.00%) CentOS
4 3 (12.00%) Unix
5 2 (8.00%) Debian
5 2 (8.00%) Rocky
6 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (12.00%) Observability
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.00%) Validation
8 2 (8.00%) Agile
8 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (8.00%) Migration
8 2 (8.00%) Security Testing
8 2 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) C
4 2 (8.00%) Go
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) JCL
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) Firmware
3 1 (4.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.00%) VirtualBox
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (28.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) VMware
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (4.00%) NetScout
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.00%) Teradata