Linux Administrator Jobs in Cheltenham

Linux Administrator
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Linux Administrator salary in Cheltenham is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 58 -
Rank change year-on-year +34 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 2.26% 0.30% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 0.31% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £46,875 - -
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £58,438 £55,000 -
90th Percentile £58,625 - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 131 322 336
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.50% 97.58% 86.38%
Number of salaries quoted 90 217 211
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,500 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings that featured Linux Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in Cheltenham

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in Cheltenham.

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in Cheltenham

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 7 August 2025, Linux Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (66.67%) CoreOS
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) CoreOS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat