Linux Contracts in the East of England

Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 23 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 120 144 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.13% 7.40% 8.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.95% 33.57% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 98 91
10th Percentile £297 £260 £375
25th Percentile £359 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £629
90th Percentile £716 £633 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 34
10th Percentile £51.25 - £41.94
25th Percentile £56.88 £51.25 £52.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +62.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.92% +18.18% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 231 429 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.79% 22.03% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 299 311
10th Percentile £194 £163 £163
25th Percentile £258 £224 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £489
90th Percentile £650 £700 £630
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 49 81
10th Percentile £13.93 £13.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £58.75 £18.53 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +217.14% -15.80% +23.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hertfordshire +2 85 £550 +10.00% 49
Cambridgeshire -23 17 £550 +22.22% 47
Essex +14 14 £438 -22.77% 20
Bedfordshire 0 3 £375 -14.29% 3
Suffolk +14 1 £188 - 7
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 12 (10.00%) CMS
2 6 (5.00%) Apache
2 6 (5.00%) Tomcat
3 5 (4.17%) NetWeaver
4 4 (3.33%) IIS
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Simulink
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.67%) AWS
1 2 (1.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
2 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (0.83%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 1 (0.83%) CloudFront
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.83%) PaaS
2 1 (0.83%) Route 53
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 9 (7.50%) HTTP
3 6 (5.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (5.00%) FTP
4 5 (4.17%) 5G
4 5 (4.17%) DNS
4 5 (4.17%) NAS
4 5 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (4.17%) SMTP
4 5 (4.17%) SSL
5 4 (3.33%) H.323
5 4 (3.33%) Wireshark
6 3 (2.50%) Firewall
6 3 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (2.50%) RS-485
6 3 (2.50%) VPN
7 2 (1.67%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.67%) SAN
8 1 (0.83%) DVB
8 1 (0.83%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.17%) SAP BW
1 5 (4.17%) SAP HANA
1 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.83%) Big Data
2 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Git
2 9 (7.50%) JIRA
2 9 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.83%) Eclipse
3 7 (5.83%) Subversion
4 4 (3.33%) gcov
4 4 (3.33%) GDB
4 4 (3.33%) Gradle
5 2 (1.67%) GitLab
6 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.83%) CMake
6 1 (0.83%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 7 (5.83%) Electronics
3 7 (5.83%) Multimedia
4 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.00%) Military
4 6 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Legal
5 4 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.50%) Wearables
7 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.67%) Finance
7 2 (1.67%) Law
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 21 (17.50%) Linux Engineer
1 21 (17.50%) Software Engineer
2 16 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
3 15 (12.50%) Developer
4 14 (11.67%) Analyst
5 12 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
6 11 (9.17%) Senior
7 9 (7.50%) Design Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) C Software Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.83%) Real Time Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Real Time Software Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) C++ Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) SAP Basis Consultant
11 5 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (4.17%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) Web Services
2 7 (5.83%) LDAP
2 7 (5.83%) Node.js
3 5 (4.17%) SAP Basis
3 5 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (4.17%) Yocto
4 4 (3.33%) JSON
4 4 (3.33%) YAML
5 2 (1.67%) GStreamer
5 2 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.83%) .NET
6 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.83%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.83%) POSIX
6 1 (0.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.17%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (8.33%) Cyberattack
3 9 (7.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (5.83%) FPGA
4 7 (5.83%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.83%) Verilog
5 6 (5.00%) ASIC
6 5 (4.17%) PKI
7 4 (3.33%) IVR
7 4 (3.33%) STB
8 3 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (2.50%) Clustering
8 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.50%) Digital TV
8 3 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.50%) Smartphone
8 3 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 51 (42.50%) Windows
2 19 (15.83%) Unix
3 14 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (9.17%) Solaris
5 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.33%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.33%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.50%) CentOS
9 2 (1.67%) AIX
10 1 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.17%) Software Engineering
2 19 (15.83%) Incident Response
3 15 (12.50%) Agile
3 15 (12.50%) Change Management
3 15 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (10.83%) Visualisation
5 12 (10.00%) Migration
5 12 (10.00%) Validation
6 11 (9.17%) CI/CD
6 11 (9.17%) High Availability
6 11 (9.17%) Security Operations
7 10 (8.33%) ITIL
7 10 (8.33%) Multithreading
8 8 (6.67%) Digital Twin
8 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (6.67%) Mathematics
8 8 (6.67%) Synthetic Environment
9 7 (5.83%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
9 7 (5.83%) Mathematical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) C++
2 23 (19.17%) C
3 20 (16.67%) Python
4 14 (11.67%) Bash
5 13 (10.83%) C#
6 9 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.83%) MATLAB
7 7 (5.83%) SystemVerilog
7 7 (5.83%) Tcl
8 5 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.50%) Assembly Language
9 3 (2.50%) Rust
10 1 (0.83%) Java
10 1 (0.83%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.33%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.83%) Degree
5 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.17%) PhD
6 4 (3.33%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) LPIC
8 1 (0.83%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.67%) JTAG
2 1 (0.83%) MISRA
2 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (15.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.33%) Docker
4 4 (3.33%) Firmware
5 3 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.83%) HDFS
6 1 (0.83%) KVM
6 1 (0.83%) NFS
6 1 (0.83%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.67%) Ansible
3 6 (5.00%) Rancher
3 6 (5.00%) SCOM
4 5 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (4.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.67%) SCCM
6 1 (0.83%) Kibana
6 1 (0.83%) logstash
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (29.17%) VMware
2 26 (21.67%) Microsoft
3 21 (17.50%) Red Hat
4 16 (13.33%) NetApp
5 15 (12.50%) Splunk
6 12 (10.00%) Darktrace
6 12 (10.00%) FireEye
6 12 (10.00%) LogRhythm
7 7 (5.83%) SAP
8 5 (4.17%) Dell
8 5 (4.17%) HP
8 5 (4.17%) IBM
8 5 (4.17%) IronPort
8 5 (4.17%) Symantec
9 4 (3.33%) Avaya
9 4 (3.33%) Cadence
9 4 (3.33%) Klocwork
9 4 (3.33%) Perforce
9 4 (3.33%) Verint
10 3 (2.50%) Xilinx