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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 80 16 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 8.76% 11.85% 16.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.43% 94.12% 57.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54 11 16
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £71,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -16.38% +28.13%
75th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £88,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £73,750 £53,000
% change year-on-year -11.86% +39.15% -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 112 17 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.27% 12.59% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 76 12 38
10th Percentile £46,125 £46,500 £30,700
25th Percentile £59,813 £51,563 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +10.60%
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 29 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 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) AWS
2 14 (17.50%) Azure
3 6 (7.50%) GitHub
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.25%) PaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Route 53
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) DHCP
1 5 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.75%) LAN
3 3 (3.75%) WAN
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (2.50%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.50%) VLAN
4 2 (2.50%) VPN
4 2 (2.50%) WebEx
5 1 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.25%) MPLS
5 1 (1.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
1 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) Valgrind
General
1 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (2.50%) Banking
3 2 (2.50%) Marketing
3 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.50%) Retail
3 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Developer
1 20 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 20 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 18 (22.50%) C++ Developer
2 18 (22.50%) C++ Software Developer
3 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Security Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) C++/Java Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
4 10 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead
8 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) Terraform
2 4 (5.00%) RESTful
3 2 (2.50%) XMPP
4 1 (1.25%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.25%) CSS
4 1 (1.25%) HTML
4 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.50%) FlexPod
3 2 (2.50%) Legacy Code
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Replication
3 2 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.75%) Android
3 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.50%) Unix
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
5 1 (1.25%) CoreOS
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
2 18 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 15 (18.75%) DevOps
5 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.25%) Agile
7 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 7 (8.75%) Code Quality
9 7 (8.75%) Microservices
10 6 (7.50%) Decision-Making
10 6 (7.50%) DevSecOps
10 6 (7.50%) OO
10 6 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
11 5 (6.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) C++
2 19 (23.75%) Java
3 17 (21.25%) Python
4 14 (17.50%) Bash
5 9 (11.25%) Rust
6 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.00%) Go
8 3 (3.75%) C
8 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.25%) C#
9 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (42.50%) DV Cleared
3 20 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) Degree
5 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) GDPR
1 2 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
2 8 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.75%) vSphere
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.25%) XenApp
6 1 (1.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Ansible
2 16 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.75%) Packer
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.50%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) Puppet
4 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.25%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.25%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.00%) VMware
3 3 (3.75%) Cisco
3 3 (3.75%) NetApp
4 2 (2.50%) Dell
4 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) Citrix
5 1 (1.25%) HP
5 1 (1.25%) Juniper
5 1 (1.25%) McAfee
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.25%) Veeam