Linux Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 19 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing Linux 160 55 193
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 7.91% 9.14% 15.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.38% 53.40% 60.31%
Number of salaries quoted 84 27 96
10th Percentile £38,250 £45,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,688 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,250 £82,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -

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 234 103 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.57% 17.11% 25.10%
Number of salaries quoted 127 60 216
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,925 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,536 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -22.50% -1.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% -0.52%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Linux
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Linux

Linux
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

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 7 August 2026. 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
Gloucester +5 68 £58,750 -26.56% 16
Cheltenham -9 52 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Filton +2 3 £40,000 -
Tewkesbury -9 1 £52,500 -8.70% 4
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.00%) Confluence
2 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.75%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.13%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.25%) JBoss
4 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 61 (38.13%) AWS
2 34 (21.25%) Azure
3 23 (14.38%) OpenShift
4 12 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.88%) Serverless
6 10 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.63%) GCP
8 8 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.13%) PaaS
11 4 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.88%) GitHub
13 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.25%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.25%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.38%) Firewall
2 12 (7.50%) LAN
2 12 (7.50%) WAN
3 10 (6.25%) DNS
4 8 (5.00%) DHCP
4 8 (5.00%) Unified Communications
4 8 (5.00%) VLAN
4 8 (5.00%) WebEx
5 7 (4.38%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (4.38%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (3.75%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.13%) Software-Defined Radio
8 4 (2.50%) IPv4
8 4 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.88%) VPN
10 2 (1.25%) AMQP
10 2 (1.25%) Network Security
10 2 (1.25%) VSAN
10 2 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.38%) InfluxDB
1 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.50%) MySQL
3 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.25%) Big Data
4 2 (1.25%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (25.00%) Git
2 27 (16.88%) Jenkins
3 22 (13.75%) GitLab
4 9 (5.63%) JIRA
5 8 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.00%) Robot Framework
5 8 (5.00%) Subversion
6 7 (4.38%) Selenium
6 7 (4.38%) TestRail
7 6 (3.75%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.25%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.63%) Maven
9 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (14.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.75%) Aerospace
3 21 (13.13%) Finance
4 13 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.38%) Banking
6 7 (4.38%) Marketing
6 7 (4.38%) Retail
6 7 (4.38%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.88%) Automotive
7 3 (1.88%) Electronics
7 3 (1.88%) Games
7 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (29.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (13.13%) Software Engineer
3 18 (11.25%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (10.00%) Administrator
4 16 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
5 11 (6.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (6.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.25%) Developer
7 9 (5.63%) Software Developer
7 9 (5.63%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) C++ Developer
8 8 (5.00%) C++ Software Developer
9 7 (4.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) IT Support
9 7 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Lead
9 7 (4.38%) Linux Administrator
9 7 (4.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 7 (4.38%) Senior
9 7 (4.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.00%) XMPP
3 6 (3.75%) Playwright
3 6 (3.75%) pytest
4 4 (2.50%) boto
4 4 (2.50%) HTML
4 4 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.50%) React
4 4 (2.50%) REST
5 3 (1.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.88%) Node.js
5 3 (1.88%) OpenGL
5 3 (1.88%) Vulkan
6 2 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.25%) gRPC
6 2 (1.25%) Material-UI
6 2 (1.25%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.25%) RESTful
6 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (6.88%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.25%) Replication
5 8 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.00%) FlexPod
5 8 (5.00%) Social Media
6 7 (4.38%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (4.38%) FPGA
6 7 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.38%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.38%) VHDL
7 5 (3.13%) Blog
7 5 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.13%) Verilog
8 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.88%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 61 (38.13%) Windows
2 24 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (7.50%) CentOS
4 7 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.13%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (3.13%) Unix
6 3 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.25%) Android
7 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.25%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.25%) Debian
7 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.63%) Rocky
8 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (41.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (35.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (31.88%) Agile
4 49 (30.63%) CI/CD
5 39 (24.38%) Containerisation
6 33 (20.63%) DevOps
7 27 (16.88%) Software Engineering
8 25 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 24 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 23 (14.38%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (11.88%) Software Testing
13 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Automation
13 17 (10.63%) Scrum
14 14 (8.75%) Configuration Management
15 13 (8.13%) Continuous Integration
16 12 (7.50%) AI
16 12 (7.50%) Customer Experience
16 12 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (42.50%) Python
2 39 (24.38%) Bash
3 29 (18.13%) C++
4 26 (16.25%) Java
5 22 (13.75%) PowerShell
6 18 (11.25%) JavaScript
7 13 (8.13%) C
8 10 (6.25%) Go
9 6 (3.75%) SQL
9 6 (3.75%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.13%) Rust
11 3 (1.88%) C#
11 3 (1.88%) GLSL
11 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.25%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.25%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 93 (58.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (38.13%) DV Cleared
3 33 (20.63%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.13%) CREST Certified
6 4 (2.50%) CCNA
6 4 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.50%) OSCP
6 4 (2.50%) RHCE
6 4 (2.50%) RHCSA
7 3 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.88%) Degree
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.25%) QA
2 7 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (21.88%) Docker
3 22 (13.75%) Active Directory
4 12 (7.50%) vSphere
5 11 (6.88%) Firmware
6 10 (6.25%) Hyper-V
7 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.38%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (3.13%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.50%) Ceph
9 4 (2.50%) Squid
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (36.88%) Ansible
2 58 (36.25%) Kubernetes
3 52 (32.50%) Terraform
4 19 (11.88%) Grafana
5 18 (11.25%) Puppet
6 10 (6.25%) Argo
7 9 (5.63%) vCenter Server
8 8 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (5.00%) Packer
8 8 (5.00%) Prometheus
8 8 (5.00%) Rancher
9 7 (4.38%) Check_MK
10 6 (3.75%) Kibana
10 6 (3.75%) logstash
10 6 (3.75%) yum
11 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (2.50%) Istio
12 4 (2.50%) Nagios
12 4 (2.50%) Podman
12 4 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (24.38%) Microsoft
2 37 (23.13%) VMware
3 26 (16.25%) Red Hat
4 20 (12.50%) Splunk
5 15 (9.38%) Cisco
6 10 (6.25%) Dell
6 10 (6.25%) Fortinet
6 10 (6.25%) NetApp
7 9 (5.63%) Palo Alto
8 8 (5.00%) Atlassian
8 8 (5.00%) Veeam
9 6 (3.75%) Oracle
10 3 (1.88%) Apple
11 2 (1.25%) Google
11 2 (1.25%) HP
11 2 (1.25%) Juniper
11 2 (1.25%) McAfee
11 2 (1.25%) SaltStack
12 1 (0.63%) New Relic