Linux Contracts in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 45 30 38
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 783 1,676 2,401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.47% 6.59% 6.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.54% 45.33% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 1,216 1,764
10th Percentile £329 £450 £439
25th Percentile £450 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £823 £788
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 14
10th Percentile - £39.25 £25.54
25th Percentile - £51.25 £33.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £71.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +56.04% -9.00%
75th Percentile - £83.56 £62.19
90th Percentile - £90.00 £66.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.23
% change year-on-year - +17.70% +10.45%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,086 3,697 5,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.91% 14.53% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,477 2,698 3,747
10th Percentile £206 £213 £228
25th Percentile £335 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 82
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.08
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +108.33% -48.39%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £48.06
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.75 £62.95
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the London 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
Central London -8 113 £600 -7.69% 24
West London +14 22 £488 -18.75% 19
East London -7 8 £445 -40.67% 2
South London -24 6 £511 -7.18% 8
North London +1 2 £250 -52.38% 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 39 (4.98%) Confluence
2 37 (4.73%) nginx
3 35 (4.47%) OpenStack
4 29 (3.70%) Apache
5 13 (1.66%) Tomcat
6 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.40%) IIS
8 10 (1.28%) Apache Spark
8 10 (1.28%) JBoss
9 7 (0.89%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.77%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 6 (0.77%) SAS
11 4 (0.51%) Luigi
12 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.38%) CMS
12 3 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.26%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.26%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.53%) ION Anvil
2 8 (1.02%) ION MarketView
3 6 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.77%) SimCorp Dimension
3 6 (0.77%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.64%) Endur
5 3 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.38%) Global One
5 3 (0.38%) Shopify
6 2 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.26%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.26%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 232 (29.63%) AWS
2 175 (22.35%) Azure
3 55 (7.02%) GitHub
4 53 (6.77%) GCP
5 45 (5.75%) PaaS
6 34 (4.34%) Serverless
7 26 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.32%) SaaS
8 25 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 21 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (2.68%) Azure AKS
11 20 (2.55%) OpenShift
12 19 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (2.30%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (2.17%) IaaS
15 13 (1.66%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.30%) Firewall
2 42 (5.36%) DNS
3 28 (3.58%) TCP/IP
4 24 (3.07%) SSH
4 24 (3.07%) SSL
5 23 (2.94%) HTTP
6 17 (2.17%) DHCP
7 15 (1.92%) FTP
7 15 (1.92%) Kerberos
7 15 (1.92%) SAN
8 14 (1.79%) Network Security
9 13 (1.66%) NAS
10 12 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (1.53%) Internet
10 12 (1.53%) VPN
11 10 (1.28%) LAN
12 9 (1.15%) VLAN
12 9 (1.15%) WAN
13 8 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.89%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.32%) SQL Server
2 56 (7.15%) Relational Database
3 47 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 41 (5.24%) MySQL
5 31 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 31 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (3.45%) RDBMS
7 18 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.30%) KDB
8 16 (2.04%) Oracle Database
9 15 (1.92%) Big Data
10 14 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.79%) DB2
10 14 (1.79%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (1.28%) Sybase ASE
14 9 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.89%) Power BI
16 6 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (15.07%) Jenkins
2 98 (12.52%) Git
3 64 (8.17%) GitLab
4 60 (7.66%) JIRA
5 21 (2.68%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.55%) Artifactory
7 18 (2.30%) Mockito
8 17 (2.17%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.79%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 14 (1.79%) JUnit
10 13 (1.66%) Maven
11 12 (1.53%) JMeter
11 12 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (1.15%) Selenium
13 8 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.02%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.89%) Subversion
15 6 (0.77%) Gatling
15 6 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 208 (26.56%) Finance
2 165 (21.07%) Social Skills
3 105 (13.41%) Banking
4 86 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.66%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.13%) Investment Banking
7 32 (4.09%) Front Office
8 28 (3.58%) Telecoms
9 19 (2.43%) Marketing
10 17 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.79%) Electronics
12 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.28%) Retail
13 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.64%) Back Office
17 3 (0.38%) French Language
17 3 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 138 (17.62%) Developer
2 102 (13.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (9.83%) Senior
4 56 (7.15%) Architect
5 55 (7.02%) Java Developer
6 48 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
7 44 (5.62%) Analyst
8 43 (5.49%) Linux Engineer
9 40 (5.11%) Lead
9 40 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 38 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (4.09%) Applications Support
12 30 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (3.83%) Consultant
12 30 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
13 29 (3.70%) Support Engineer
14 28 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 27 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (9.71%) Kafka
2 45 (5.75%) HTML
3 40 (5.11%) FIX Protocol
4 39 (4.98%) Spring
5 38 (4.85%) REST
6 36 (4.60%) LDAP
7 31 (3.96%) CSS
8 29 (3.70%) JSON
9 28 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
10 27 (3.45%) Web Services
11 25 (3.19%) .NET
12 23 (2.94%) React
13 22 (2.81%) Node.js
14 21 (2.68%) Middleware
14 21 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (2.68%) XML
15 20 (2.55%) RESTful
16 17 (2.17%) JPA
17 16 (2.04%) SOAP
18 15 (1.92%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 48 (6.13%) Linux Command Line
3 44 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (4.47%) Replication
5 32 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 32 (4.09%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.96%) Algorithms
7 29 (3.70%) Data Structures
8 27 (3.45%) Derivative
9 25 (3.19%) Fixed Income
10 24 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 19 (2.43%) Clustering
12 19 (2.43%) Public Cloud
13 18 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (2.04%) Product Ownership
16 15 (1.92%) Hedge funds
17 14 (1.79%) Cloud Native
18 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 231 (29.50%) Windows
2 212 (27.08%) Unix
3 87 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (6.51%) Windows Server
5 33 (4.21%) CentOS
6 16 (2.04%) Mac OS X
7 12 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.53%) Solaris
7 12 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (1.40%) Android
8 11 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (1.15%) VMS
9 9 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.77%) zOS
11 4 (0.51%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.38%) AIX
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (27.33%) DevOps
2 201 (25.67%) CI/CD
3 178 (22.73%) Agile
4 122 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (11.24%) Microservices
6 87 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (9.58%) Test Automation
8 74 (9.45%) Containerisation
8 74 (9.45%) Migration
9 72 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 63 (8.05%) TDD
11 59 (7.54%) Software Engineering
12 56 (7.15%) Continuous Integration
12 56 (7.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 56 (7.15%) Scrum
13 55 (7.02%) Computer Science
14 50 (6.39%) SDLC
15 49 (6.26%) Cybersecurity
16 47 (6.00%) Configuration Management
16 47 (6.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 264 (33.72%) Python
2 167 (21.33%) Java
3 154 (19.67%) SQL
4 92 (11.75%) PowerShell
5 72 (9.20%) Shell Script
6 69 (8.81%) Bash
7 60 (7.66%) JavaScript
8 55 (7.02%) C#
9 46 (5.87%) C++
10 44 (5.62%) Perl
11 40 (5.11%) Go
12 26 (3.32%) PHP
12 26 (3.32%) T-SQL
13 21 (2.68%) C
14 14 (1.79%) Scala
15 10 (1.28%) Groovy
16 7 (0.89%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.64%) Korn
17 5 (0.64%) Rust
17 5 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 170 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 123 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.58%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.79%) Degree
5 36 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.89%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.77%) CCNP
9 6 (0.77%) GIAC
10 5 (0.64%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.64%) OSCP
11 4 (0.51%) GCIA
11 4 (0.51%) GCIH
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.38%) CISSP
12 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.34%) QA
2 19 (2.43%) SLA
3 11 (1.40%) GDPR
3 11 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.89%) NIST
6 6 (0.77%) NCSC
7 5 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.51%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.26%) COBIT
9 2 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) JTAG
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 149 (19.03%) Docker
2 72 (9.20%) Active Directory
3 57 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.73%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 16 (2.04%) Firmware
6 16 (2.04%) KVM
6 16 (2.04%) NFS
7 12 (1.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (1.53%) HDFS
8 7 (0.89%) vSphere
9 5 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.64%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.38%) Samba
10 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.26%) Ceph
11 2 (0.26%) iptables
11 2 (0.26%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 169 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 155 (19.80%) Ansible
2 155 (19.80%) Terraform
3 65 (8.30%) Puppet
4 63 (8.05%) Grafana
5 52 (6.64%) Prometheus
6 32 (4.09%) Progress Chef
7 23 (2.94%) Packer
8 22 (2.81%) Consul
9 16 (2.04%) ITRS Geneos
10 14 (1.79%) Kibana
10 14 (1.79%) logstash
11 10 (1.28%) Argo
11 10 (1.28%) SCCM
12 8 (1.02%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (1.02%) Nagios
12 8 (1.02%) Netcool
13 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.77%) Tivoli
14 6 (0.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 128 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.26%) Oracle
3 82 (10.47%) VMware
4 71 (9.07%) Red Hat
5 34 (4.34%) Cisco
5 34 (4.34%) Dell
5 34 (4.34%) IBM
5 34 (4.34%) SAP
6 30 (3.83%) Splunk
7 25 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.81%) Sybase
9 21 (2.68%) CyberArk
9 21 (2.68%) Google
10 20 (2.55%) ION Trading
10 20 (2.55%) Qualys
11 18 (2.30%) HP
12 17 (2.17%) Isilon
13 16 (2.04%) F5
14 15 (1.92%) SaltStack
15 14 (1.79%) Dynatrace