Unix Job Trends in Cheltenham

Unix
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 26 49
Rank change year-on-year -43 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing Unix 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.22% 0.74% 0.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.67% 5.88% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £46,875
25th Percentile £78,750 £46,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £52,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -10.64% +4.91%
75th Percentile £86,250 £58,750 £67,188
90th Percentile - - £69,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £82,500 £52,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +57.14% -28.81% +27.64%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

Unix 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 120 17 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.97% 12.59% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 79 12 37
10th Percentile £46,800 £46,500 £30,600
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,563 £43,750
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £93,750 £84,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Unix job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Unix
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Unix

Unix
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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible