Linux Contracts in Scotland

Linux
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 17 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 148 261 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.91% 9.75% 6.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.77% 53.37% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 158 145
10th Percentile £324 £400 £390
25th Percentile £350 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £573
90th Percentile £750 £750 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £56.00 £49.49 £41.30
25th Percentile £57.50 £53.20 £46.39
Median hourly rate £60.25 £59.79 £52.81
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +13.22% -20.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £56.19
90th Percentile - £67.66 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 363 489 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.94% 18.27% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 334 336
10th Percentile £176 £158 £150
25th Percentile £290 £250 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £696 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 25
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.14 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.20 £17.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.73 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -45.53% +169.36% +1.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £47.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -12 78 £486 -15.57% 13
Edinburgh +7 39 £453 -9.50% 39
South Lanarkshire +18 13 £750 - 1
Aberdeen - 4 £625 - 6
Perthshire +11 3 £475 -
West Lothian +3 2 £650 +62.50% 2
Fife +2 2 £365 - 1
Renfrewshire -2 1 £600 +20.80% 1
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (10.14%) Confluence
2 6 (4.05%) IIS
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.03%) SAS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.68%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.32%) AWS
2 19 (12.84%) OpenShift
3 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 11 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.76%) Azure
5 10 (6.76%) Serverless
6 8 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 7 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.38%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.03%) OCI
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.35%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (1.35%) IaaS
10 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.16%) Firewall
2 5 (3.38%) Internet
3 4 (2.70%) SAN
4 3 (2.03%) DNS
4 3 (2.03%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (2.03%) iSCSI
4 3 (2.03%) LAN
5 2 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.35%) DHCP
5 2 (1.35%) Modbus
5 2 (1.35%) NAS
5 2 (1.35%) SNMP
5 2 (1.35%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) DSL
6 1 (0.68%) Network Security
6 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.76%) Oracle Database
2 8 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.38%) InfluxDB
3 5 (3.38%) MariaDB
3 5 (3.38%) MySQL
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (2.70%) Metadata
5 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.35%) DB2
6 2 (1.35%) Informix
6 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.35%) NonStop SQL
6 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (11.49%) JIRA
2 15 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.11%) Git
4 10 (6.76%) Artifactory
5 9 (6.08%) Maven
6 8 (5.41%) Gradle
7 6 (4.05%) GitLab
8 5 (3.38%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.38%) Selenium
9 3 (2.03%) Burp Suite
9 3 (2.03%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.35%) Capybara
10 2 (1.35%) CMake
11 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.68%) Gatling
11 1 (0.68%) JMeter
11 1 (0.68%) JUnit
11 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.68%) Subversion
11 1 (0.68%) Terragrunt
General
1 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.51%) Finance
2 20 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.43%) Banking
4 7 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.38%) Electronics
7 4 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (13.51%) Support Engineer
3 19 (12.84%) Python Engineer
4 17 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Developer
6 15 (10.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 11 (7.43%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.43%) Linux Support
8 11 (7.43%) Linux Support Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Applications Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Java Scala Developer
9 9 (6.08%) JIRA Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Linux Developer
9 9 (6.08%) Scala Developer
9 9 (6.08%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.41%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.46%) REST
2 10 (6.76%) AWS CDK
2 10 (6.76%) Web Services
3 7 (4.73%) Middleware
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 4 (2.70%) Spring
6 3 (2.03%) Flash
6 3 (2.03%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.03%) POSIX
6 3 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.03%) React
6 3 (2.03%) Yocto
7 2 (1.35%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.35%) Java EE
7 2 (1.35%) Kafka
7 2 (1.35%) Pandas
7 2 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.35%) WebKit
7 2 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.49%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.43%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.73%) Clustering
4 6 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.70%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.70%) IoT
6 4 (2.70%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.70%) PCIe
6 4 (2.70%) Verilog
6 4 (2.70%) VHDL
7 3 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.03%) NVMe
7 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.03%) Replication
7 3 (2.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.00%) Windows
2 32 (21.62%) Unix
3 29 (19.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (10.14%) Windows Server
5 9 (6.08%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (4.73%) Solaris
6 7 (4.73%) Ubuntu
7 6 (4.05%) CentOS
7 6 (4.05%) Debian
7 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.70%) VxWorks
9 3 (2.03%) Kali Linux
10 2 (1.35%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (1.35%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.35%) zOS
11 1 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.70%) Agile
2 30 (20.27%) CI/CD
3 27 (18.24%) DevOps
4 25 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (15.54%) Software Engineering
6 19 (12.84%) Migration
6 19 (12.84%) OO
7 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (10.14%) High Availability
9 14 (9.46%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.78%) Observability
11 12 (8.11%) Data Migration
11 12 (8.11%) Service Management
12 11 (7.43%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.43%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (6.76%) Analytics
13 10 (6.76%) Roadmaps
13 10 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (6.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 55 (37.16%) Python
2 26 (17.57%) Java
3 24 (16.22%) Perl
4 16 (10.81%) Bash
5 12 (8.11%) Shell Script
5 12 (8.11%) SQL
6 11 (7.43%) Groovy
7 9 (6.08%) Scala
8 8 (5.41%) C
8 8 (5.41%) Ruby
9 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
10 6 (4.05%) Embedded C
11 4 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.70%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.03%) C++
12 3 (2.03%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 33 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) Degree
4 6 (4.05%) MCSA
4 6 (4.05%) MCSE
4 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.05%) RHCE
4 6 (4.05%) RHCT
5 3 (2.03%) OSCP
6 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.05%) SLA
3 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.70%) MISRA
4 4 (2.70%) MISRA C
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.35%) NIST
5 2 (1.35%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (8.78%) KVM
1 13 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.08%) Docker
3 6 (4.05%) Firmware
3 6 (4.05%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (2.03%) NFS
6 2 (1.35%) GPFS
7 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 22 (14.86%) Ansible
3 16 (10.81%) Terraform
4 15 (10.14%) Grafana
5 8 (5.41%) Kibana
6 6 (4.05%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (2.70%) Data Guard
9 3 (2.03%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (2.03%) Nagios
9 3 (2.03%) Packer
10 2 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.35%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.35%) OpenView
10 2 (1.35%) Puppet
10 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 1 (0.68%) SCCM
11 1 (0.68%) SCOM
11 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (15.54%) Red Hat
2 17 (11.49%) Oracle
3 16 (10.81%) Atlassian
4 14 (9.46%) VMware
5 8 (5.41%) Splunk
6 6 (4.05%) Citrix
6 6 (4.05%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.70%) Intel
7 4 (2.70%) Veritas
8 3 (2.03%) BMC
8 3 (2.03%) Commvault
8 3 (2.03%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.35%) Brocade
9 2 (1.35%) Cisco
9 2 (1.35%) EMC
9 2 (1.35%) Google
9 2 (1.35%) IBM
9 2 (1.35%) NetApp
9 2 (1.35%) Qualys
9 2 (1.35%) SolarWinds