Linux Contracts in Central London

Linux
London > Central London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 113 215 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.72% 5.76% 5.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.10% 39.02% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 147 169
10th Percentile £383 £454 £418
25th Percentile £425 £544 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £708 £703 £675
90th Percentile £775 £762 £753
London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £66.25 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - +59.64% -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £71.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year -11.97% +56.04% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 313 551 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.06% 14.77% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 384 451
10th Percentile £195 £158 £175
25th Percentile £308 £250 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £651 £652 £600
90th Percentile £726 £738 £688
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile - £28.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £16.13
Median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +60.38% +87.61%
75th Percentile £27.00 £60.31 £45.75
90th Percentile £28.43 £74.38 £78.75
London median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +108.33% -48.39%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London -7 107 £625 -3.85% 24
City of Westminster -4 3 £400 -36.00%
Southwark +7 1 £501 -9.00%
Linux
London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.54%) nginx
2 3 (2.65%) Apache
2 3 (2.65%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.77%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) JBoss
3 2 (1.77%) Luigi
3 2 (1.77%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.88%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.88%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.88%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.88%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.55%) Azure
2 25 (22.12%) AWS
3 13 (11.50%) GitHub
4 9 (7.96%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.19%) PaaS
6 6 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.31%) Serverless
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.54%) SaaS
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.65%) GCP
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) Firewall
2 4 (3.54%) FTP
2 4 (3.54%) SSL
3 3 (2.65%) Network Security
3 3 (2.65%) SAN
4 2 (1.77%) DNS
4 2 (1.77%) Internet
4 2 (1.77%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.77%) MQTT
4 2 (1.77%) NAS
4 2 (1.77%) SSH
4 2 (1.77%) WAN
4 2 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.88%) HTTP
5 1 (0.88%) IPv4
5 1 (0.88%) Junos
5 1 (0.88%) Multicast
5 1 (0.88%) Skype
5 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.16%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.62%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.73%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.96%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.19%) DB2
5 7 (6.19%) MySQL
6 6 (5.31%) KDB
7 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.42%) Sybase ASE
8 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.88%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.88%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) GitLab
1 12 (10.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.96%) Git
3 7 (6.19%) Cypress.io
3 7 (6.19%) JIRA
4 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.42%) JMeter
4 5 (4.42%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.65%) Mockito
5 3 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.77%) GoCD
6 2 (1.77%) Postman
6 2 (1.77%) Subversion
7 1 (0.88%) AppScan
7 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.88%) JUnit
7 1 (0.88%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) Selenium
7 1 (0.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 36 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.24%) Finance
3 19 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.93%) Banking
5 10 (8.85%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.42%) Front Office
8 4 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) French Language
11 1 (0.88%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.88%) Back Office
11 1 (0.88%) Electronics
11 1 (0.88%) German Language
11 1 (0.88%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.88%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Marketing
11 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (14.16%) Developer
1 16 (14.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.39%) Site Engineer
3 10 (8.85%) Java Developer
4 9 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (7.08%) Analyst
5 8 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.08%) Python Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Java Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Senior
7 6 (5.31%) Implementation Specialist
8 5 (4.42%) Architect
8 5 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.42%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.78%) Kafka
2 11 (9.73%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (8.85%) RESTful
4 9 (7.96%) React
5 6 (5.31%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (5.31%) HTML
6 5 (4.42%) Node.js
7 4 (3.54%) LDAP
8 3 (2.65%) .NET
8 3 (2.65%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.65%) CSS
8 3 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.65%) JAX-RS
8 3 (2.65%) JSON
8 3 (2.65%) pytest
8 3 (2.65%) REST
8 3 (2.65%) Spring
8 3 (2.65%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.65%) XML
9 2 (1.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.93%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.73%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (8.85%) Algorithms
3 10 (8.85%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.96%) Replication
5 7 (6.19%) Public Cloud
6 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.54%) Machine to Machine
7 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.65%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.77%) Clustering
9 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.77%) PKI
10 1 (0.88%) Derivative
10 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 39 (34.51%) Windows
2 28 (24.78%) Unix
3 11 (9.73%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.54%) Mac OS X
6 3 (2.65%) Android
6 3 (2.65%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.77%) CentOS
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.77%) Solaris
7 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.77%) VMS
7 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.77%) zOS
8 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.88%) Rocky
8 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.74%) DevOps
2 33 (29.20%) CI/CD
3 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.70%) Agile
5 19 (16.81%) Microservices
6 18 (15.93%) Task Automation
7 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (15.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (10.62%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.85%) Analytical Thinking
10 10 (8.85%) Migration
11 9 (7.96%) Containerisation
11 9 (7.96%) Incident Management
11 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (7.96%) Software Engineering
11 9 (7.96%) TDD
12 8 (7.08%) Computer Science
13 7 (6.19%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 50 (44.25%) Python
2 28 (24.78%) Java
3 20 (17.70%) Shell Script
4 18 (15.93%) SQL
5 13 (11.50%) C++
6 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.08%) Bash
7 8 (7.08%) Go
7 8 (7.08%) Perl
7 8 (7.08%) T-SQL
8 6 (5.31%) C#
9 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.65%) PHP
11 2 (1.77%) Bicep
12 1 (0.88%) JCL
12 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.88%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.73%) Degree
3 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.65%) GCIA
6 3 (2.65%) GCIH
6 3 (2.65%) GIAC
6 3 (2.65%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.77%) ISEB
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.50%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.77%) COBIT
3 2 (1.77%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.77%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) Docker
2 12 (10.62%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 9 (7.96%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.31%) NFS
6 5 (4.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (3.54%) HDFS
7 4 (3.54%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.65%) KVM
9 1 (0.88%) Ceph
9 1 (0.88%) iptables
9 1 (0.88%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (31.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.81%) Terraform
3 17 (15.04%) Grafana
3 17 (15.04%) Prometheus
4 13 (11.50%) Ansible
5 12 (10.62%) Consul
6 5 (4.42%) Argo
6 5 (4.42%) Puppet
7 4 (3.54%) Nessus
8 3 (2.65%) CSIRT
8 3 (2.65%) Nagios
8 3 (2.65%) Packer
8 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.65%) QRadar
8 3 (2.65%) SCCM
9 2 (1.77%) CASB
9 2 (1.77%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.77%) Graylog
9 2 (1.77%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Oracle
3 11 (9.73%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.73%) SaltStack
4 10 (8.85%) IBM
5 9 (7.96%) ServiceNow
5 9 (7.96%) VMware
6 7 (6.19%) SAP
7 6 (5.31%) Dell
7 6 (5.31%) Sun
7 6 (5.31%) Sybase
8 5 (4.42%) Veritas
9 4 (3.54%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (3.54%) Isilon
10 3 (2.65%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (2.65%) HP
10 3 (2.65%) Splunk
10 3 (2.65%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.77%) Citrix
11 2 (1.77%) Temenos