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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 70 16 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 7.68% 11.27% 15.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.00% 94.12% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 47 11 17
10th Percentile £49,500 £48,750 £41,750
25th Percentile £58,375 £53,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +20.54%
75th Percentile £78,125 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,100 £93,750 £88,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,500 £70,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +32.08% -5.36%

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 100 17 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 10.96% 11.97% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 69 12 38
10th Percentile £44,000 £46,500 £32,050
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - +17.07%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,125 £69,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £84,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -

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 15 September 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 (1.43%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.57%) AWS
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 6 (8.57%) GitHub
4 5 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.29%) Serverless
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.43%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.43%) PaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Route 53
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
2 5 (7.14%) LAN
2 5 (7.14%) WAN
3 4 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (5.71%) DHCP
3 4 (5.71%) DNS
3 4 (5.71%) Unified Communications
3 4 (5.71%) VLAN
3 4 (5.71%) WebEx
4 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.86%) VPN
6 1 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
1 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (2.86%) Valgrind
General
1 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Finance
3 4 (5.71%) Banking
3 4 (5.71%) Marketing
3 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.71%) Retail
3 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (22.86%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Software Developer
3 15 (21.43%) C++ Developer
3 15 (21.43%) C++ Software Developer
4 14 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) C++/Java Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Senior
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Lead
10 4 (5.71%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.86%) Terraform
2 4 (5.71%) XMPP
3 1 (1.43%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.43%) CSS
3 1 (1.43%) HTML
3 1 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (1.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.71%) FlexPod
2 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.71%) Replication
2 4 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Windows
2 6 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.86%) Android
3 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.86%) Unix
4 1 (1.43%) CentOS
4 1 (1.43%) CoreOS
4 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (27.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 13 (18.57%) Containerisation
4 13 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.14%) DevOps
6 9 (12.86%) Agile
7 8 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (11.43%) Project Delivery
7 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 6 (8.57%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.14%) Software Delivery
9 5 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (7.14%) Test Automation
10 4 (5.71%) Microservices
10 4 (5.71%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) C++
2 18 (25.71%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) Bash
4 12 (17.14%) Java
5 9 (12.86%) Rust
6 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.71%) Go
9 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.86%) C
11 1 (1.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (62.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 14 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) Degree
5 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.57%) Docker
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (5.71%) vSphere
4 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (24.29%) Ansible
2 15 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (5.71%) Grafana
4 3 (4.29%) Packer
5 1 (1.43%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.43%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.43%) Puppet
5 1 (1.43%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) VMware
3 5 (7.14%) Cisco
4 4 (5.71%) Fortinet
4 4 (5.71%) NetApp
4 4 (5.71%) Palo Alto
4 4 (5.71%) Splunk
5 1 (1.43%) Dell
5 1 (1.43%) HP
5 1 (1.43%) Juniper
5 1 (1.43%) McAfee
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Veeam