Linux Job Trends in Cheltenham

Linux
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 49 16 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 5.99% 12.12% 13.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.64% 94.12% 61.43%
Number of salaries quoted 34 10 21
10th Percentile £45,675 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £52,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +11.36% -1.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,875 £81,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £93,750 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -3.08%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 77 17 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 9.41% 12.88% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 54 11 47
10th Percentile £40,000 - £32,100
25th Percentile £50,313 £52,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,875 £93,750 £81,900
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -25.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Linux job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Linux
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux in Cheltenham

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) AWS
2 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.12%) GitHub
4 3 (6.12%) Serverless
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Route 53
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Firewall
1 9 (18.37%) LAN
1 9 (18.37%) WAN
2 8 (16.33%) Unified Communications
2 8 (16.33%) VLAN
2 8 (16.33%) WebEx
3 7 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (12.24%) DHCP
4 6 (12.24%) DNS
5 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.08%) VPN
7 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
1 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) Valgrind
General
1 7 (14.29%) Banking
1 7 (14.29%) Marketing
1 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 7 (14.29%) Retail
1 7 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (38.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 7 (14.29%) C++ Software Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Collaboration Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Administrator
7 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Head of IT
7 3 (6.12%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) XMPP
2 1 (2.04%) Bootstrap
2 1 (2.04%) CSS
2 1 (2.04%) HTML
2 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (16.33%) FlexPod
2 8 (16.33%) Onboarding
2 8 (16.33%) Replication
2 8 (16.33%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.69%) Windows
2 9 (18.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Android
3 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.04%) CentOS
3 1 (2.04%) CoreOS
3 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
4 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (16.33%) Agile
6 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.29%) Data Management
6 7 (14.29%) Performance Management
7 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.24%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.20%) Decision-Making
8 5 (10.20%) DevOps
8 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.16%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (6.12%) Cloud Security
10 3 (6.12%) Logical Data Model
10 3 (6.12%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) C++
3 9 (18.37%) Bash
4 5 (10.20%) Java
4 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.16%) Rust
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.73%) DV Cleared
3 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.33%) vSphere
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 7 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (10.20%) Docker
5 4 (8.16%) Hyper-V
6 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (40.82%) Terraform
2 19 (38.78%) Ansible
3 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
4 8 (16.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 8 (16.33%) Grafana
5 3 (6.12%) Packer
6 2 (4.08%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.04%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (2.04%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.53%) VMware
3 10 (20.41%) Cisco
4 8 (16.33%) Fortinet
4 8 (16.33%) NetApp
4 8 (16.33%) Palo Alto
4 8 (16.33%) Splunk
5 2 (4.08%) Dell
5 2 (4.08%) HP
5 2 (4.08%) Juniper
5 2 (4.08%) Veeam
6 1 (2.04%) McAfee
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat