Linux Contracts in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 1,920 3,256 4,542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.20% 6.86% 6.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.88% 42.21% 41.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 2,273 3,086
10th Percentile £350 £406 £404
25th Percentile £430 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £643 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 151 144
10th Percentile £46.33 £21.65 £29.53
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.23
Median % change year-on-year - +17.70% +10.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £71.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,068 7,713 10,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.74% 16.25% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,437 5,434 7,497
10th Percentile £185 £195 £175
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 358 502
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.86 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -15 783 £550 -12.00% 419
South East 0 434 £535 +1.90% 229
South West -8 232 £575 +4.55% 173
North of England -11 188 £500 -5.66% 143
Midlands +9 144 £550 +1.85% 110
East of England -5 116 £550 +15.79% 124
Yorkshire +12 109 £500 -9.09% 47
West Midlands +2 98 £550 - 62
North West -41 66 £450 -14.29% 87
East Midlands +21 45 £503 +4.69% 48
North East -3 13 £575 +6.98% 9
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 111 (5.78%) Confluence
2 57 (2.97%) Apache
3 54 (2.81%) nginx
4 51 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 41 (2.14%) OpenStack
6 22 (1.15%) CMS
7 20 (1.04%) Tomcat
8 19 (0.99%) IIS
9 17 (0.89%) JBoss
10 15 (0.78%) Apache Spark
11 14 (0.73%) SharePoint
12 11 (0.57%) NetWeaver
13 9 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
14 6 (0.31%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 6 (0.31%) SAS
15 4 (0.21%) IBM Domino
15 4 (0.21%) Luigi
15 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.52%) Simulink
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.63%) ION Anvil
2 11 (0.57%) SAP IBP
3 8 (0.42%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.36%) Temenos T24
5 6 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.26%) Endur
7 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.16%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.16%) Global One
8 3 (0.16%) Shopify
9 2 (0.10%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.10%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.10%) Front Arena
10 1 (0.052%) Magento
10 1 (0.052%) MFGPRO
10 1 (0.052%) Sage 50
10 1 (0.052%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 401 (20.89%) AWS
2 390 (20.31%) Azure
3 110 (5.73%) GitHub
4 95 (4.95%) GCP
5 70 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (3.54%) PaaS
7 65 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (3.13%) OpenShift
9 53 (2.76%) Serverless
10 50 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
11 48 (2.50%) Entra ID
12 45 (2.34%) Amazon S3
12 45 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (1.77%) SaaS
14 31 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
14 31 (1.61%) IaaS
15 29 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 28 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 28 (1.46%) Azure AKS
17 27 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 174 (9.06%) Firewall
2 141 (7.34%) DNS
3 112 (5.83%) SAN
4 99 (5.16%) TCP/IP
5 85 (4.43%) DHCP
6 61 (3.18%) WAN
7 52 (2.71%) SSL
8 51 (2.66%) VPN
9 48 (2.50%) Network Security
10 46 (2.40%) LAN
11 41 (2.14%) HTTP
12 36 (1.88%) VLAN
12 36 (1.88%) Wireless
13 28 (1.46%) NAS
14 27 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
15 26 (1.35%) FTP
15 26 (1.35%) SNMP
15 26 (1.35%) SSH
16 23 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
17 22 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 89 (4.64%) Relational Database
3 80 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 80 (4.17%) MySQL
4 61 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
6 44 (2.29%) RDBMS
7 43 (2.24%) Big Data
8 40 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 34 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (1.56%) Oracle Database
11 23 (1.20%) DB2
12 20 (1.04%) Hadoop
13 18 (0.94%) KDB
13 18 (0.94%) SAP HANA
14 17 (0.89%) Power BI
15 15 (0.78%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (0.57%) SAP BW
18 10 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 227 (11.82%) Jenkins
2 209 (10.89%) Git
3 169 (8.80%) JIRA
4 142 (7.40%) GitLab
5 84 (4.38%) Bitbucket
6 33 (1.72%) Eclipse
7 31 (1.61%) GoogleTest
8 29 (1.51%) Robot Framework
9 28 (1.46%) Artifactory
10 26 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 26 (1.35%) Visual Studio
11 23 (1.20%) TeamCity
12 22 (1.15%) Mockito
12 22 (1.15%) Selenium
13 19 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
14 18 (0.94%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.94%) SonarQube
15 17 (0.89%) Subversion
16 16 (0.83%) Cucumber
16 16 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 409 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 270 (14.06%) Finance
3 200 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 126 (6.56%) Banking
6 64 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 48 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 45 (2.34%) Aerospace
9 40 (2.08%) Front Office
10 29 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.46%) Electronics
11 28 (1.46%) Legal
11 28 (1.46%) Marketing
11 28 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (0.99%) Military
13 15 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.78%) Retail
14 14 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.57%) Automotive
15 11 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 253 (13.18%) Developer
2 180 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 161 (8.39%) Senior
4 140 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 131 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 126 (6.56%) Linux Engineer
7 122 (6.35%) Architect
8 113 (5.89%) Analyst
9 69 (3.59%) Lead
9 69 (3.59%) Support Engineer
10 67 (3.49%) Java Developer
11 60 (3.13%) Administrator
12 57 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
13 56 (2.92%) Consultant
14 52 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
15 48 (2.50%) Senior Developer
15 48 (2.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 48 (2.50%) Storage Engineer
16 46 (2.40%) C++ Software Engineer
17 43 (2.24%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (5.68%) Kafka
2 76 (3.96%) HTML
3 73 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
4 68 (3.54%) .NET
5 58 (3.02%) CSS
5 58 (3.02%) YAML
6 57 (2.97%) REST
7 56 (2.92%) Web Services
8 52 (2.71%) JSON
9 49 (2.55%) LDAP
9 49 (2.55%) Spring
10 44 (2.29%) Node.js
11 40 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
12 39 (2.03%) Middleware
13 38 (1.98%) XML
14 36 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (1.67%) .NET Core
15 32 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
15 32 (1.67%) React
16 31 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 125 (6.51%) Linux Command Line
2 124 (6.46%) Data Centre
3 85 (4.43%) PKI
4 74 (3.85%) Replication
5 71 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 54 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 41 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 38 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 37 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (1.82%) Clustering
13 34 (1.77%) Derivative
14 33 (1.72%) Onboarding
15 29 (1.51%) Client/Server
16 28 (1.46%) Product Ownership
16 28 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
17 26 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (1.35%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 728 (37.92%) Windows
2 365 (19.01%) Unix
3 267 (13.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 191 (9.95%) Windows Server
5 82 (4.27%) Ubuntu
6 61 (3.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 61 (3.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 60 (3.13%) CentOS
8 49 (2.55%) Solaris
9 35 (1.82%) Mac OS X
9 35 (1.82%) zOS
10 33 (1.72%) Apple iOS
10 33 (1.72%) VMS
11 30 (1.56%) AIX
12 29 (1.51%) Android
13 28 (1.46%) Debian
14 24 (1.25%) Windows 10
15 23 (1.20%) FreeRTOS
15 23 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
16 21 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (22.24%) Agile
2 421 (21.93%) DevOps
3 383 (19.95%) CI/CD
4 250 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 223 (11.61%) Software Engineering
6 214 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 212 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 161 (8.39%) ITIL
9 159 (8.28%) Configuration Management
9 159 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
10 146 (7.60%) Scrum
11 143 (7.45%) Migration
12 130 (6.77%) Containerisation
13 125 (6.51%) Continuous Integration
14 122 (6.35%) Test Automation
15 114 (5.94%) Microservices
16 110 (5.73%) Computer Science
17 106 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
18 103 (5.36%) Analytics
19 102 (5.31%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 524 (27.29%) Python
2 267 (13.91%) PowerShell
3 257 (13.39%) Java
4 229 (11.93%) SQL
5 187 (9.74%) Bash
6 172 (8.96%) C++
7 129 (6.72%) JavaScript
8 128 (6.67%) C#
9 126 (6.56%) Shell Script
10 120 (6.25%) C
11 66 (3.44%) Go
12 62 (3.23%) Perl
13 42 (2.19%) VBScript
14 40 (2.08%) PHP
15 32 (1.67%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.35%) Bicep
17 25 (1.30%) Embedded C
18 22 (1.15%) VB
19 20 (1.04%) JCL
20 19 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 730 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 453 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 298 (15.52%) DV Cleared
4 190 (9.90%) Degree
5 61 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.61%) CCNA
8 25 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.20%) CCNP
10 20 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.73%) OSCP
13 13 (0.68%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.68%) GIAC
14 11 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.52%) MCSE
16 9 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.47%) CEH
16 9 (0.47%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.28%) QA
2 48 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.14%) GDPR
3 41 (2.14%) NIST
4 31 (1.61%) SLA
5 20 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 17 (0.89%) HIPAA
7 16 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (0.83%) MISRA
8 13 (0.68%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.52%) ISO 9000
11 9 (0.47%) NCSC
12 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.21%) ISO 15022
13 4 (0.21%) JTAG
14 3 (0.16%) COBIT
14 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 261 (13.59%) Docker
2 237 (12.34%) Active Directory
3 230 (11.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 101 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 72 (3.75%) Hyper-V
5 72 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
6 70 (3.65%) vSphere
7 63 (3.28%) VMware NSX
8 41 (2.14%) Firmware
9 39 (2.03%) NFS
10 26 (1.35%) KVM
11 21 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
12 20 (1.04%) Time Sharing Option
13 17 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 13 (0.68%) HDFS
15 11 (0.57%) iptables
16 8 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
17 7 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
18 6 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
18 6 (0.31%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 379 (19.74%) Ansible
2 325 (16.93%) Kubernetes
3 282 (14.69%) Terraform
4 117 (6.09%) Puppet
5 100 (5.21%) Grafana
6 93 (4.84%) Prometheus
7 79 (4.11%) SCCM
8 68 (3.54%) Progress Chef
9 47 (2.45%) SCOM
10 45 (2.34%) WSUS
11 44 (2.29%) NetBackup
12 39 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
12 39 (2.03%) Packer
13 38 (1.98%) vCenter Server
14 36 (1.88%) Kibana
15 32 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
16 28 (1.46%) EMC NetWorker
16 28 (1.46%) logstash
17 27 (1.41%) PowerCLI
18 25 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 349 (18.18%) VMware
2 336 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 231 (12.03%) Red Hat
4 186 (9.69%) Oracle
5 110 (5.73%) IBM
6 102 (5.31%) Dell
7 94 (4.90%) Cisco
8 87 (4.53%) Splunk
9 71 (3.70%) HP
10 70 (3.65%) Google
11 63 (3.28%) Atlassian
12 56 (2.92%) SAP
13 44 (2.29%) ServiceNow
14 43 (2.24%) Brocade
15 38 (1.98%) EMC
16 35 (1.82%) Veeam
17 34 (1.77%) Veritas
18 33 (1.72%) Palo Alto
19 30 (1.56%) F5
20 29 (1.51%) Symantec