Unix Administrator Jobs in Cheltenham

Unix Administrator
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Unix Administrator salary in Cheltenham is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Administrator 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 0.74% 0.30% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.31% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 -
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 133 322 339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.52% 97.87% 87.15%
Number of salaries quoted 91 218 208
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £34,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £45,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +7.14% +17.89%
75th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Unix Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings that featured Unix Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Administrator in Cheltenham

Unix Administrator
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

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

Salary trend for Unix Administrator in Cheltenham

Unix Administrator Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 12 August 2025, Unix Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Unix Administrator in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CoreOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line

Unix Administrator Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) CoreOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat