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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 9 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 95 16 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 10.24% 13.11% 15.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.24% 94.12% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 59 11 14
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £40,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £79,000 £90,000 £82,250
90th Percentile £95,800 £93,750 £90,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% +39.15% -5.36%

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 123 17 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 13.25% 13.93% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 77 12 34
10th Percentile £48,150 £46,500 £31,450
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,563 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,125 £66,563
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £82,200
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 13 October 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 (1.05%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.05%) AWS
2 15 (15.79%) Azure
3 6 (6.32%) GitHub
4 5 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.21%) Serverless
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.05%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.05%) PaaS
7 1 (1.05%) Route 53
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) DHCP
1 5 (5.26%) DNS
2 4 (4.21%) Firewall
2 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.16%) LAN
3 3 (3.16%) WAN
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (2.11%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.11%) VLAN
4 2 (2.11%) VPN
4 2 (2.11%) WebEx
5 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.05%) MPLS
5 1 (1.05%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.53%) Git
3 9 (9.47%) GitLab
4 2 (2.11%) Valgrind
General
1 9 (9.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.26%) Finance
4 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.11%) Banking
5 2 (2.11%) Marketing
5 2 (2.11%) Retail
5 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) Developer
1 23 (24.21%) Software Developer
2 20 (21.05%) C++ Developer
2 20 (21.05%) C++ Software Developer
2 20 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) Security Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) Software Engineer
5 12 (12.63%) C++/Java Developer
5 12 (12.63%) Java Developer
5 12 (12.63%) Java Software Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Administrator
7 8 (8.42%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Linux Administrator
8 6 (6.32%) Senior
9 5 (5.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Lead
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.32%) Terraform
2 5 (5.26%) RESTful
3 2 (2.11%) XMPP
4 1 (1.05%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.05%) CSS
4 1 (1.05%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.05%) Flask
4 1 (1.05%) Gradio
4 1 (1.05%) HTML
4 1 (1.05%) Kafka
4 1 (1.05%) Plotly
4 1 (1.05%) REST
4 1 (1.05%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.11%) FlexPod
3 2 (2.11%) Legacy Code
3 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.11%) Replication
3 2 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.32%) Android
2 6 (6.32%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.26%) macOS
4 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.11%) Unix
6 1 (1.05%) CentOS
6 1 (1.05%) CoreOS
6 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.11%) CI/CD
1 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
1 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (17.89%) Containerisation
2 17 (17.89%) DevOps
2 17 (17.89%) Software Engineering
3 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.79%) Agile
4 15 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (9.47%) Code Quality
5 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
5 9 (9.47%) Microservices
6 8 (8.42%) Project Delivery
6 8 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (7.37%) Computer Science
7 7 (7.37%) Decision-Making
7 7 (7.37%) DevSecOps
7 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (7.37%) OO
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.89%) C++
2 24 (25.26%) Java
3 21 (22.11%) Python
4 16 (16.84%) Bash
5 9 (9.47%) Rust
6 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.32%) C
7 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.21%) Go
9 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.05%) C#
10 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (61.05%) Security Cleared
2 39 (41.05%) DV Cleared
3 24 (25.26%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.58%) Degree
5 7 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.11%) GDPR
1 2 (2.11%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) Docker
2 10 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.21%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.16%) vSphere
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.05%) XenApp
6 1 (1.05%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (21.05%) Ansible
2 18 (18.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.21%) Packer
3 4 (4.21%) Puppet
3 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.11%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.05%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.05%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 14 (14.74%) Microsoft
1 14 (14.74%) VMware
2 3 (3.16%) Cisco
2 3 (3.16%) NetApp
3 2 (2.11%) Dell
3 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
3 2 (2.11%) Splunk
4 1 (1.05%) Citrix
4 1 (1.05%) Foundry
4 1 (1.05%) HP
4 1 (1.05%) Juniper
4 1 (1.05%) McAfee
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.05%) Veeam