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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 28 19 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 11.72% 16.52% 12.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 48.72% 60.98%
Number of salaries quoted 19 7 33
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £48,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,250 £78,000 £78,540
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 28 39 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 11.72% 33.91% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 19 15 64
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £34,875 £34,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,250 £78,750 £64,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 24 February 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Firewall
2 7 (25.00%) DHCP
2 7 (25.00%) DNS
2 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.86%) Network Security
4 4 (14.29%) LAN
4 4 (14.29%) WAN
5 3 (10.71%) VLAN
5 3 (10.71%) VSAN
6 2 (7.14%) Unified Communications
6 2 (7.14%) WebEx
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.14%) MySQL
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Marketing
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.71%) Electronics
5 3 (10.71%) Finance
6 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Administrator
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Unix Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Collaboration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) DBA
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) XMPP
2 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) CMDB
1 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (7.14%) Clustering
3 2 (7.14%) FlexPod
3 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.71%) CentOS
4 3 (10.71%) Unix
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.57%) CoreOS
6 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) ITIL
2 9 (32.14%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
4 5 (17.86%) Change Control
4 5 (17.86%) ITSM
4 5 (17.86%) Service Management
4 5 (17.86%) Time Management
4 5 (17.86%) Use Case
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) Network Design
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Programme Management
7 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Bash
3 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) Go
4 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) CCIE
4 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.71%) vSphere
3 2 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Ansible
2 7 (25.00%) Nagios
2 7 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (7.14%) Data Guard
5 2 (7.14%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.14%) SCVMM
6 1 (3.57%) Nessus
6 1 (3.57%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Cisco
2 8 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (17.86%) CheckPoint
4 5 (17.86%) F5
5 4 (14.29%) VMware
6 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 3 (10.71%) SAP
6 3 (10.71%) Splunk
7 2 (7.14%) Google
7 2 (7.14%) McAfee
7 2 (7.14%) NetApp
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle
7 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.57%) Dell
8 1 (3.57%) HP
8 1 (3.57%) Juniper
8 1 (3.57%) Veeam