Linux Jobs in Cheltenham

Linux
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 11 60 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.22% 15.42% 8.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 91.67% 58.82% 50.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 36 14
10th Percentile £51,500 £46,250 £34,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,375 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,625 £72,863 £77,313
90th Percentile £80,250 £81,500 £78,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -10.33%

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 12 102 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 13.33% 26.22% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8 77 37
10th Percentile £43,550 £30,000 £25,700
25th Percentile £51,875 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £70,313 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £78,120 £75,650
Gloucestershire median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -7.32%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cheltenham

Linux
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cheltenham.

Salary trend for Linux in Cheltenham

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Cheltenham

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) IPv4
2 2 (18.18%) OSPF
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Software Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
3 4 (36.36%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (36.36%) DevSecOps
3 4 (36.36%) Re-Platforming
3 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) R
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
4 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) Degree
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Puppet
3 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP