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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Linux 17 70 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.91% 15.45% 24.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.53% 78.65% 69.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 43 76
10th Percentile £503 £478 £466
25th Percentile £525 £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £681 £635 £701
90th Percentile £742 £725 £775
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
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% +54.41%
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 43 89 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.48% 19.65% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 57 102
10th Percentile £168 £360 £415
25th Percentile £183 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £700
90th Percentile £679 £725 £737
South West median daily rate £463 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -13.23% +6.60% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 18
10th Percentile - - £54.78
25th Percentile - - £71.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +345.71%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £86.50
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% +7.69% -

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
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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +1 12 £600 - 22
Gloucester -1 2 £625 +13.64% 19
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 (11.76%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) npm
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) AMQP
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) InfluxDB
1 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Flink
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) GitLab
3 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
3 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (11.76%) Git
4 2 (11.76%) Maven
5 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
1 4 (23.53%) Test Leader
2 3 (17.65%) Automation Tester
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Tester
2 3 (17.65%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Qt
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.76%) CentOS
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
3 8 (47.06%) Software Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
4 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Validation
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Observability
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (5.88%) Data Engineering
9 1 (5.88%) Epics
9 1 (5.88%) Microservices
9 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
9 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
9 1 (5.88%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) C
4 2 (11.76%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) Ada
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Def Stans
1 1 (5.88%) IEC 61508
1 1 (5.88%) MISRA
1 1 (5.88%) MISRA C
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Grafana
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.88%) Podman
5 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) VMware