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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 24 10 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 5.06% 10.87% 11.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.42% 76.92% 54.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 39
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £60,125
90th Percentile - £70,750 £81,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

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 31 13 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.54% 14.13% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 22 8 78
10th Percentile £40,250 £43,550 £29,550
25th Percentile £45,938 £51,875 £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 £81,250 £73,125 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,015
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £49,459 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.09% -1.08% -

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 25 April 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 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
2 6 (25.00%) DHCP
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 6 (25.00%) LAN
2 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 6 (25.00%) VLAN
2 6 (25.00%) WAN
2 6 (25.00%) WebEx
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (37.50%) Marketing
2 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 5 (20.83%) Banking
3 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
3 5 (20.83%) Retail
4 3 (12.50%) Electronics
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Administrator
3 6 (25.00%) Collaboration Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Unix Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Unix Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.17%) DBA
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Network Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) XMPP
2 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Replication
2 6 (25.00%) FlexPod
2 6 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (8.33%) CMDB
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (20.83%) Data Management
6 5 (20.83%) ITIL
6 5 (20.83%) Performance Management
7 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
7 3 (12.50%) Service Management
7 3 (12.50%) Time Management
8 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
8 2 (8.33%) Change Control
8 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (8.33%) ITSM
8 2 (8.33%) Network Design
8 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.33%) Use Case
9 1 (4.17%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Bash
3 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) vSphere
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (20.83%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Ansible
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 7 (29.17%) Grafana
4 6 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (12.50%) Nagios
6 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
6 2 (8.33%) NetBackup
6 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.17%) Data Guard
7 1 (4.17%) Nessus
7 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) Cisco
3 8 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 8 (33.33%) VMware
4 6 (25.00%) NetApp
4 6 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 6 (25.00%) Splunk
5 3 (12.50%) SAP
6 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
6 2 (8.33%) Dell
6 2 (8.33%) F5
6 2 (8.33%) HP
6 2 (8.33%) Juniper
6 2 (8.33%) Veeam
7 1 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (4.17%) Oracle