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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +16
Permanent jobs citing Linux 26 11 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 4.81% 12.22% 13.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.29% 91.67% 54.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 35
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,938 £70,625 £66,375
90th Percentile £68,750 £80,250 £81,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -1.79%

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 35 12 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 6.47% 13.33% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 25 8 76
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,313 £59,063
90th Percentile - £78,000 £75,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +5.26%

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 May 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 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (23.08%) Azure
4 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Firewall
2 8 (30.77%) LAN
2 8 (30.77%) WAN
3 7 (26.92%) DHCP
3 7 (26.92%) DNS
3 7 (26.92%) TCP/IP
3 7 (26.92%) Unified Communications
3 7 (26.92%) VLAN
3 7 (26.92%) WebEx
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (7.69%) Network Security
6 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (38.46%) Marketing
2 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 9 (34.62%) Telecoms
3 6 (23.08%) Banking
3 6 (23.08%) Retail
4 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
5 3 (11.54%) Electronics
5 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Collaboration Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Administrator
4 4 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Head of IT
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Unix Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) XMPP
2 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Replication
2 7 (26.92%) FlexPod
2 7 (26.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (26.92%) Onboarding
2 7 (26.92%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (7.69%) CMDB
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) CentOS
4 1 (3.85%) CoreOS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (23.08%) Data Management
6 6 (23.08%) Performance Management
7 5 (19.23%) ITIL
8 3 (11.54%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (11.54%) Programme Management
8 3 (11.54%) Service Management
8 3 (11.54%) Time Management
9 2 (7.69%) Asset Management
9 2 (7.69%) Change Control
9 2 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
9 2 (7.69%) ITSM
9 2 (7.69%) Network Design
9 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (7.69%) Use Case
10 1 (3.85%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) Bash
3 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) CCIE
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) vSphere
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (23.08%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Ansible
2 9 (34.62%) Terraform
3 8 (30.77%) Grafana
4 7 (26.92%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (11.54%) Nagios
6 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
6 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
7 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.85%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (3.85%) Nessus
7 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.85%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (42.31%) Cisco
3 10 (38.46%) VMware
4 9 (34.62%) Fortinet
5 7 (26.92%) NetApp
5 7 (26.92%) Palo Alto
5 7 (26.92%) Splunk
6 3 (11.54%) SAP
7 2 (7.69%) CheckPoint
7 2 (7.69%) Dell
7 2 (7.69%) F5
7 2 (7.69%) HP
7 2 (7.69%) Juniper
7 2 (7.69%) Veeam
8 1 (3.85%) McAfee
8 1 (3.85%) Oracle
8 1 (3.85%) Red Hat