Linux Jobs in Gloucestershire

Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Linux 50 345 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.65% 19.48% 21.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.10% 67.51% 77.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25 168 64
10th Percentile - £45,000 £34,775
25th Percentile £45,250 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% -3.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,250
South West median annual salary £46,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +4.76%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 78 511 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 15.06% 28.85% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 46 327 124
10th Percentile £25,063 £28,500 £26,110
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £62,188 £60,013 £67,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -10.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +3 14 £60,000 +9.09% 76
Filton -14 14 £46,500 -17.33%
Gloucester -10 7 £60,000 +9.09% 89
Tewkesbury -2 2 £48,750 -7.14% 5
Stroud - 1 - - 2
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MFGPRO
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (8.00%) Serverless
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (2.00%) GCP
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) IPv4
2 3 (6.00%) Internet
2 3 (6.00%) VPN
3 2 (4.00%) Broadband
3 2 (4.00%) DNS
3 2 (4.00%) OSPF
3 2 (4.00%) VLAN
4 1 (2.00%) 2G
4 1 (2.00%) DHCP
4 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (14.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) JIRA
2 9 (18.00%) GitLab
2 9 (18.00%) Visual Studio
3 7 (14.00%) Git
4 3 (6.00%) JUnit
5 2 (4.00%) Jaeger
5 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.00%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.00%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (2.00%) GDB
6 1 (2.00%) WebSpeed
General
1 10 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (18.00%) Avionics
3 5 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.00%) Legal
5 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Electronics
6 2 (4.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) Lead
2 8 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Automation Test Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) IAM Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Software Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.00%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) React
2 5 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 4 (8.00%) .NET
3 4 (8.00%) JSF
4 3 (6.00%) HTML
5 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.00%) CSS
6 1 (2.00%) EDI
6 1 (2.00%) HTML5
6 1 (2.00%) JSP
6 1 (2.00%) Laravel
6 1 (2.00%) Middleware
6 1 (2.00%) Redux
6 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) e-Learning
1 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.00%) Unix
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) User Experience
2 12 (24.00%) DevOps
2 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (22.00%) Containerisation
4 10 (20.00%) Agile
4 10 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 10 (20.00%) Physics
5 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (18.00%) Quality Management
5 9 (18.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (18.00%) UX Design
6 8 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
7 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.00%) Software Testing
7 7 (14.00%) Task Automation
7 7 (14.00%) Unit Testing
8 6 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (12.00%) DevSecOps
8 6 (12.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) Java
2 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (26.00%) Bash
4 10 (20.00%) C
5 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
6 7 (14.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (10.00%) C++
7 5 (10.00%) Go
7 5 (10.00%) PHP
8 4 (8.00%) Perl
8 4 (8.00%) R
9 3 (6.00%) Rust
10 2 (4.00%) SQL
11 1 (2.00%) C#
11 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (58.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.00%) DV Cleared
3 12 (24.00%) Degree
4 7 (14.00%) AWS Certification
5 5 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Ansible
2 10 (20.00%) Terraform
3 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (12.00%) Kibana
5 4 (8.00%) Puppet
6 2 (4.00%) Argo
6 2 (4.00%) Kustomize
6 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Atlassian
2 6 (12.00%) Oracle
3 5 (10.00%) VMware
4 3 (6.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) QAD
5 1 (2.00%) SAP