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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 11 20
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 21 16 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 3.56% 14.41% 11.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.33% 94.12% 51.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 33
10th Percentile £41,000 £52,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £77,750 £93,750 £86,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -5.98%

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 36 17 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.10% 15.32% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26 11 79
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - £93,750 £81,300
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -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 22 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 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) LAN
2 8 (38.10%) WAN
3 7 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 7 (33.33%) VLAN
3 7 (33.33%) WebEx
4 6 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (19.05%) DHCP
5 4 (19.05%) DNS
5 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.52%) Network Security
7 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (28.57%) Banking
1 6 (28.57%) Marketing
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 6 (28.57%) Retail
1 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Collaboration Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) Head of IT
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) FlexPod
1 7 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 7 (33.33%) Replication
1 7 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (9.52%) CMDB
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) CentOS
3 1 (4.76%) CoreOS
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (38.10%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (28.57%) Data Management
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Management
6 4 (19.05%) ITIL
7 3 (14.29%) Use Case
8 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
8 2 (9.52%) Change Control
8 2 (9.52%) ITSM
8 2 (9.52%) Network Design
8 2 (9.52%) Service Management
8 2 (9.52%) Time Management
9 1 (4.76%) Analytics
9 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (4.76%) Open Source
9 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
9 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Bash
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) CCIE
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (33.33%) vSphere
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Ansible
2 8 (38.10%) Terraform
3 7 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
3 7 (33.33%) Grafana
4 2 (9.52%) Nagios
5 1 (4.76%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.76%) Packer
5 1 (4.76%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) Cisco
3 9 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 9 (42.86%) VMware
4 7 (33.33%) NetApp
4 7 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 7 (33.33%) Splunk
5 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
5 2 (9.52%) F5
6 1 (4.76%) Dell
6 1 (4.76%) HP
6 1 (4.76%) Juniper
6 1 (4.76%) McAfee
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam