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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 17
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 18 34 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 11.25% 15.11% 16.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 94.74% 53.13% 92.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 33
10th Percentile £43,250 £43,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £44,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +16.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,250 £61,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £90,250 £78,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% +4.55% -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 19 64 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 11.88% 28.44% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 14 27 38
10th Percentile £42,500 £29,400 £26,525
25th Percentile £46,875 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,875 £64,250
90th Percentile £87,000 £81,900 £78,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 3 December 2025.

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 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) VSAN
3 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (5.56%) VLAN
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Administrator
2 6 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (27.78%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Lead
6 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
6 2 (11.11%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (11.11%) Unix Systems Administrator
6 2 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Architect
7 1 (5.56%) DBA
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (5.56%) Software Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Splunk Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) CMDB
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (27.78%) CentOS
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (16.67%) CoreOS
6 2 (11.11%) Unix
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Time Management
3 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 3 (16.67%) Change Control
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Network Design
5 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Observability
6 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) CCIE
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Nagios
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (11.11%) Puppet
3 2 (11.11%) SCVMM
4 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco
1 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 3 (16.67%) F5
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) McAfee
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) VMware