Linux Contracts in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 51 53
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 -19
Contract jobs citing Linux 48 30 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.65% 3.01% 3.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.26% 15.87% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 31
10th Percentile £331 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £500
90th Percentile £588 £708 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +278.38% -
75th Percentile - - £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 190 189 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.38% 18.98% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 135 210
10th Percentile £129 £122 £127
25th Percentile £160 £189 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £375 £286
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +31.00% +11.71%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £450
90th Percentile £564 £684 £502
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.46
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.18 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.57 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -5.40% +32.56%
75th Percentile £20.00 £26.48 £22.88
90th Percentile £24.18 £43.23 £28.05
England median hourly rate £22.50 £43.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +104.33% +22.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Leicestershire +21 17 £498 +42.29% 12
Northamptonshire +7 12 £363 - 13
Derbyshire +3 12 £575 +30.68% 8
Nottinghamshire +3 5 £450 -21.40% 17
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (10.42%) JBoss
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) AWS
2 5 (10.42%) OpenShift
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) Serverless
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) SAN
2 8 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.08%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.08%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) GitLab
2 8 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (14.58%) Git
4 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (10.42%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (10.42%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
4 5 (10.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.42%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.17%) Gradle
5 2 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 9 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Automotive
3 2 (4.17%) Banking
3 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (14.58%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 7 (14.58%) Senior
2 7 (14.58%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Administrator
3 5 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) IT Support
6 2 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (10.42%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.08%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) HP Storage
2 5 (10.42%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.25%) Grid Computing
5 2 (4.17%) Clustering
5 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (47.92%) Windows
2 18 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (20.83%) AIX
4 9 (18.75%) Solaris
5 5 (10.42%) Ubuntu
5 5 (10.42%) Windows Server
6 3 (6.25%) Debian
7 1 (2.08%) SUSE
7 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) ITIL
2 10 (20.83%) DevOps
3 9 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 6 (12.50%) Storage Management
5 6 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (10.42%) Build Automation
6 5 (10.42%) Code Quality
6 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (10.42%) Microservices
6 5 (10.42%) Migration
6 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.42%) Statistics
6 5 (10.42%) Task Automation
7 4 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.33%) QMS
7 4 (8.33%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) Bash
3 5 (10.42%) Perl
4 2 (4.17%) C
4 2 (4.17%) C++
4 2 (4.17%) Embedded C
4 2 (4.17%) Embedded C++
4 2 (4.17%) Groovy
4 2 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (4.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (52.08%) Security Cleared
2 20 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) RHCE
5 1 (2.08%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (29.17%) Docker
2 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (2.08%) KVM
6 1 (2.08%) Lustre
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Ansible
2 9 (18.75%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (12.50%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (12.50%) NetBackup
4 6 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 5 (10.42%) Kibana
5 5 (10.42%) SCCM
5 5 (10.42%) SCOM
5 5 (10.42%) SCSM
6 4 (8.33%) Terraform
7 1 (2.08%) Data Guard
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (2.08%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Red Hat
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 10 (20.83%) EMC
4 8 (16.67%) Brocade
4 8 (16.67%) Cisco
4 8 (16.67%) VMware
5 6 (12.50%) HP
5 6 (12.50%) Oracle
5 6 (12.50%) Symantec
6 5 (10.42%) AppDynamics
6 5 (10.42%) Splunk
7 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow