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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 23 16 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 4.12% 15.53% 11.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.65% 94.12% 53.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 35
10th Percentile £41,000 £52,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £93,750 £85,100
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -5.17%

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 34 17 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.09% 16.50% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24 11 77
10th Percentile £41,500 £50,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - £93,750 £79,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £38,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +35.48% -22.50% -

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 8 June 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (21.74%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) LAN
2 8 (34.78%) WAN
3 7 (30.43%) Unified Communications
3 7 (30.43%) VLAN
3 7 (30.43%) WebEx
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (21.74%) DHCP
5 5 (21.74%) DNS
5 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.70%) Network Security
7 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 8 (34.78%) Marketing
2 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 7 (30.43%) Telecoms
3 6 (26.09%) Banking
3 6 (26.09%) Retail
4 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Electronics
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Collaboration Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Administrator
4 4 (17.39%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) Head of IT
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Unix Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Unix Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.35%) DBA
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (4.35%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Tester
7 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Replication
2 7 (30.43%) FlexPod
2 7 (30.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (30.43%) Onboarding
2 7 (30.43%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (8.70%) CMDB
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) CentOS
4 1 (4.35%) CoreOS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (26.09%) Data Management
4 6 (26.09%) Performance Management
5 5 (21.74%) ITIL
6 3 (13.04%) Time Management
7 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
7 2 (8.70%) Change Control
7 2 (8.70%) ITSM
7 2 (8.70%) Network Design
7 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.70%) Service Management
7 2 (8.70%) Use Case
8 1 (4.35%) Agile
8 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.35%) Penetration Testing
8 1 (4.35%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) CCIE
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (30.43%) vSphere
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (26.09%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Ansible
2 7 (30.43%) Cisco CUCM
2 7 (30.43%) Grafana
2 7 (30.43%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Nagios
4 2 (8.70%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
5 1 (4.35%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (4.35%) Nessus
5 1 (4.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (47.83%) Cisco
3 10 (43.48%) VMware
4 9 (39.13%) Fortinet
5 7 (30.43%) NetApp
5 7 (30.43%) Palo Alto
5 7 (30.43%) Splunk
6 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
6 2 (8.70%) Dell
6 2 (8.70%) F5
6 2 (8.70%) HP
6 2 (8.70%) Juniper
6 2 (8.70%) Veeam
7 1 (4.35%) McAfee
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle
7 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.35%) SAP