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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs citing Unix 3 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 1.65% - 3.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% - 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £50,250 - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £59,313
90th Percentile - - £61,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -15.63% +42.86% -2.61%

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 24 53 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 13.19% 34.87% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 45
10th Percentile £40,100 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £34,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £61,000
90th Percentile £69,750 £84,050 £77,620
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £49,000
% change year-on-year +7.32% +4.59% -10.91%

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
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in Cheltenham

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Unix Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) CoreOS
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat