Linux Contracts in Gloucestershire

Linux
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 7 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 46 79 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.43% 18.08% 8.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.27% 50.97% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 52 21
10th Percentile £497 £451 £450
25th Percentile £525 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £588
90th Percentile £775 £725 £648
South West median daily rate £579 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.18% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 1
Median hourly rate £21.00 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.08% +30.00% -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 88 155 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.95% 35.47% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 104 82
10th Percentile £203 £275 £124
25th Percentile £325 £415 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £535 £406
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +31.69% -13.56%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £488
90th Percentile £688 £706 £569
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 7
10th Percentile - £59.00 -
25th Percentile - £76.13 £11.17
Median hourly rate £14.00 £78.00 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -82.05% +395.55% -4.78%
75th Percentile £19.25 - £18.81
90th Percentile £21.00 £84.00 £36.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.49
% change year-on-year - +21.51% +174.11%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Gloucestershire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +2 29 £563 -13.46% 19
Gloucester -7 9 £600 +12.15% 2
Filton - 1 £533 - 1
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 6 (13.04%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) AWS
2 13 (28.26%) OpenShift
3 8 (17.39%) Azure
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
4 7 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (15.22%) Serverless
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Slack
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Network Security
2 6 (13.04%) AMQP
3 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.52%) IPv4
4 3 (6.52%) OSPF
4 3 (6.52%) VLAN
4 3 (6.52%) VPN
5 2 (4.35%) Firewall
5 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.17%) DNS
6 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (15.22%) InfluxDB
1 7 (15.22%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.35%) Big Data
3 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.17%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
3 5 (10.87%) GitLab
4 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.52%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.52%) Git
6 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.17%) JMeter
6 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
6 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) Site Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) IT Technician
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Service Desk Technician
5 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.70%) Kafka
3 3 (6.52%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.35%) .NET
4 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.35%) Fluent Bit
4 2 (4.35%) Loki
5 1 (2.17%) ADO
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Jena
5 1 (2.17%) CSS
5 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.17%) HTML
5 1 (2.17%) Lucene
5 1 (2.17%) PostGIS
5 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) PKI
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) CentOS
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Solaris
3 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) DevOps
2 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 12 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
5 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (19.57%) Service Management
7 8 (17.39%) Observability
8 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven
9 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) Task Automation
10 5 (10.87%) Agile
10 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (8.70%) ITIL
11 4 (8.70%) Requirements Analysis
12 3 (6.52%) Analytics
12 3 (6.52%) Test Automation
13 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics
13 2 (4.35%) High Availability
13 2 (4.35%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) C
3 16 (34.78%) PowerShell
4 15 (32.61%) Java
5 14 (30.43%) Bash
6 11 (23.91%) Go
7 8 (17.39%) SQL
8 6 (13.04%) Shell Script
9 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
10 2 (4.35%) C#
10 2 (4.35%) Perl
11 1 (2.17%) C++
11 1 (2.17%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 39 (84.78%) Security Cleared
2 35 (76.09%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) GIAC
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PhD
4 1 (2.17%) RHCE
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) vSphere
3 4 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
4 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (60.87%) Ansible
2 27 (58.70%) Terraform
3 19 (41.30%) Kubernetes
4 13 (28.26%) Grafana
4 13 (28.26%) Prometheus
5 8 (17.39%) Progress Chef
6 6 (13.04%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (6.52%) Puppet
8 2 (4.35%) Argo
8 2 (4.35%) Kustomize
9 1 (2.17%) Kibana
9 1 (2.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
1 5 (10.87%) VMware
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Splunk