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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 31 17 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 4.23% 12.78% 12.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.39% 94.44% 54.88%
Number of salaries quoted 22 11 27
10th Percentile £45,000 - £44,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £52,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £81,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £93,750 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,750 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.80% +13.64% -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 57 18 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 7.78% 13.53% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 41 12 63
10th Percentile £32,750 £50,250 £30,300
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,125 £60,000
90th Percentile - £93,750 £81,500
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 21 July 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 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.68%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) LAN
1 8 (25.81%) WAN
2 7 (22.58%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) Unified Communications
2 7 (22.58%) VLAN
2 7 (22.58%) WebEx
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (12.90%) DHCP
4 4 (12.90%) DNS
4 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Valgrind
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 6 (19.35%) Banking
1 6 (19.35%) Marketing
1 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
1 6 (19.35%) Retail
1 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Collaboration Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) C++ Developer
4 4 (12.90%) C++ Software Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Head of IT
5 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) XMPP
2 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) FlexPod
1 7 (22.58%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (22.58%) Onboarding
1 7 (22.58%) Replication
1 7 (22.58%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (38.71%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) CentOS
3 1 (3.23%) CoreOS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (19.35%) Data Management
5 6 (19.35%) Performance Management
6 5 (16.13%) Agile
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (9.68%) AI
8 3 (9.68%) Analytics
8 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
8 3 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (9.68%) Decision-Making
8 3 (9.68%) Logical Data Model
8 3 (9.68%) Physical Data Model
8 3 (9.68%) TDD
8 3 (9.68%) Use Case
9 2 (6.45%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) Bash
2 5 (16.13%) C++
3 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (22.58%) vSphere
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (19.35%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (12.90%) Docker
5 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Ansible
2 13 (41.94%) Terraform
3 7 (22.58%) Cisco CUCM
3 7 (22.58%) Grafana
4 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
5 3 (9.68%) Packer
6 1 (3.23%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.23%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (29.03%) VMware
3 8 (25.81%) Cisco
4 7 (22.58%) Fortinet
4 7 (22.58%) NetApp
4 7 (22.58%) Palo Alto
4 7 (22.58%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) HP
5 1 (3.23%) Juniper
5 1 (3.23%) McAfee
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Veeam