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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 30 37
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 802 1,706 2,450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.59% 6.56% 6.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.69% 45.52% 46.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 1,245 1,806
10th Percentile £325 £450 £435
25th Percentile £450 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £605
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +3.31% +13.51%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £823 £781
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 18
10th Percentile - £20.00 £27.09
25th Percentile - £50.94 £37.52
Median hourly rate £62.50 £71.00 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +50.14% -5.42%
75th Percentile - £77.00 £62.88
90th Percentile - £86.88 £78.98
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +19.79%

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 2,073 3,748 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.86% 14.41% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,734 3,792
10th Percentile £205 £213 £228
25th Percentile £350 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 62 92
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.93 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.94 £21.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £36.17 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.18% +49.15% -43.60%
75th Percentile £27.00 £64.50 £48.62
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £62.95
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -9 116 £588 -8.91% 33
West London +12 22 £488 -10.34% 20
East London 0 11 £450 -40.00% 106
South London -27 6 £511 -7.18% 6
North London 0 2 £250 -52.38% 2
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 48 (5.99%) nginx
2 42 (5.24%) OpenStack
3 40 (4.99%) Confluence
4 32 (3.99%) Apache
5 13 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.62%) Tomcat
6 11 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 10 (1.25%) JBoss
8 8 (1.00%) IIS
9 7 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.87%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.75%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 6 (0.75%) SAS
11 4 (0.50%) Luigi
12 3 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.37%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.25%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (1.50%) ION Anvil
2 8 (1.00%) ION MarketView
3 6 (0.75%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.62%) Endur
4 5 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.37%) Global One
5 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.37%) Shopify
6 2 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.25%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.25%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 245 (30.55%) AWS
2 178 (22.19%) Azure
3 57 (7.11%) GCP
3 57 (7.11%) GitHub
4 50 (6.23%) PaaS
5 33 (4.11%) Serverless
6 27 (3.37%) SaaS
7 26 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 23 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (2.74%) OpenShift
12 21 (2.62%) Azure AKS
12 21 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (2.37%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.37%) IaaS
14 18 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.12%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
15 17 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 72 (8.98%) Firewall
2 45 (5.61%) DNS
3 34 (4.24%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.37%) HTTP
5 23 (2.87%) SSH
5 23 (2.87%) SSL
6 20 (2.49%) VPN
7 18 (2.24%) DHCP
8 17 (2.12%) Network Security
8 17 (2.12%) SAN
9 16 (2.00%) FTP
10 15 (1.87%) NAS
11 13 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
11 13 (1.62%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (1.25%) Internet
13 10 (1.25%) LAN
13 10 (1.25%) VLAN
14 9 (1.12%) WAN
15 7 (0.87%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 52 (6.48%) Relational Database
3 45 (5.61%) MongoDB
4 41 (5.11%) MySQL
5 36 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.12%) RDBMS
8 22 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.37%) Oracle Database
10 18 (2.24%) Big Data
11 17 (2.12%) KDB
12 15 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.87%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.87%) Hadoop
13 14 (1.75%) DB2
14 11 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.25%) Sybase ASE
16 8 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (1.00%) Power BI
17 6 (0.75%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 113 (14.09%) Jenkins
2 100 (12.47%) Git
3 63 (7.86%) GitLab
4 56 (6.98%) JIRA
5 19 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.24%) Artifactory
6 18 (2.24%) Mockito
7 17 (2.12%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.50%) JMeter
10 12 (1.50%) JUnit
11 10 (1.25%) Maven
12 8 (1.00%) Selenium
12 8 (1.00%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.00%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.87%) Postman
13 7 (0.87%) Subversion
14 6 (0.75%) Gatling
General
1 211 (26.31%) Finance
2 162 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 95 (11.85%) Banking
4 81 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.24%) Investment Banking
7 35 (4.36%) Telecoms
8 31 (3.87%) Front Office
9 21 (2.62%) Marketing
10 19 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.00%) Electronics
12 12 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.00%) Retail
16 7 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.62%) Back Office
19 3 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 141 (17.58%) Developer
2 106 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 80 (9.98%) Senior
4 58 (7.23%) Architect
5 53 (6.61%) Java Developer
6 50 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (5.86%) Linux Engineer
8 46 (5.74%) Analyst
9 40 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (4.99%) Senior Developer
10 39 (4.86%) Lead
11 33 (4.11%) Support Engineer
12 32 (3.99%) Applications Support
13 30 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
13 30 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.74%) Consultant
13 30 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.98%) Kafka
2 48 (5.99%) HTML
3 39 (4.86%) FIX Protocol
4 36 (4.49%) CSS
4 36 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (4.49%) LDAP
4 36 (4.49%) Spring
5 31 (3.87%) REST
6 28 (3.49%) JSON
7 25 (3.12%) .NET
7 25 (3.12%) Web Services
8 23 (2.87%) React
9 22 (2.74%) Laravel
9 22 (2.74%) Node.js
10 20 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (2.49%) Sass
11 19 (2.37%) XML
12 18 (2.24%) Middleware
12 18 (2.24%) RESTful
12 18 (2.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.36%) Data Centre
2 47 (5.86%) Linux Command Line
3 45 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (4.49%) Replication
5 31 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 30 (3.74%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (3.24%) Algorithms
8 26 (3.24%) Data Structures
8 26 (3.24%) Derivative
9 25 (3.12%) Fixed Income
9 25 (3.12%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.49%) Clustering
10 20 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (1.87%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.75%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.50%) Hedge funds
14 11 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 236 (29.43%) Windows
2 218 (27.18%) Unix
3 84 (10.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (6.73%) Windows Server
5 37 (4.61%) CentOS
6 18 (2.24%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.00%) Mac OS X
8 15 (1.87%) VMS
9 13 (1.62%) Oracle Linux
9 13 (1.62%) Solaris
10 11 (1.37%) Apple iOS
10 11 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (1.25%) Android
12 9 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.75%) zOS
14 4 (0.50%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.50%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.37%) AIX
15 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (26.43%) DevOps
2 206 (25.69%) CI/CD
3 178 (22.19%) Agile
4 119 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (10.97%) Microservices
6 87 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 85 (10.60%) Test Automation
8 73 (9.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 72 (8.98%) Migration
10 71 (8.85%) Containerisation
11 70 (8.73%) TDD
12 61 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 58 (7.23%) Software Engineering
14 57 (7.11%) Continuous Integration
15 56 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
16 54 (6.73%) Configuration Management
17 53 (6.61%) Computer Science
18 52 (6.48%) Scrum
19 50 (6.23%) SDLC
20 49 (6.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 272 (33.92%) Python
2 162 (20.20%) Java
3 157 (19.58%) SQL
4 89 (11.10%) PowerShell
5 84 (10.47%) Bash
6 69 (8.60%) JavaScript
7 66 (8.23%) Shell Script
8 58 (7.23%) C#
9 44 (5.49%) Go
9 44 (5.49%) Perl
10 43 (5.36%) C++
11 30 (3.74%) PHP
12 22 (2.74%) C
12 22 (2.74%) T-SQL
13 14 (1.75%) Scala
14 10 (1.25%) Groovy
15 6 (0.75%) Korn
15 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.62%) Rust
16 5 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 181 (22.57%) Security Cleared
2 132 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.10%) DV Cleared
4 57 (7.11%) Degree
5 36 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.00%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.87%) CCNP
10 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.75%) GIAC
10 6 (0.75%) OSCP
11 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.37%) CCNA
12 3 (0.37%) CISSP
12 3 (0.37%) ISEB
12 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.11%) QA
2 19 (2.37%) SLA
3 15 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.50%) GDPR
5 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.25%) NIST
7 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.75%) NCSC
8 6 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.50%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.25%) COBIT
10 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.25%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 147 (18.33%) Docker
2 71 (8.85%) Active Directory
3 61 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.24%) NFS
6 17 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.12%) KVM
7 16 (2.00%) Firmware
8 12 (1.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (1.50%) HDFS
9 8 (1.00%) vSphere
10 5 (0.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.62%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.50%) Samba
12 3 (0.37%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.25%) Ceph
13 2 (0.25%) iptables
13 2 (0.25%) Lustre
13 2 (0.25%) PowerDNS
13 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 168 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 163 (20.32%) Ansible
3 157 (19.58%) Terraform
4 68 (8.48%) Grafana
5 62 (7.73%) Puppet
6 58 (7.23%) Prometheus
7 29 (3.62%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.74%) Consul
9 20 (2.49%) Packer
10 18 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
10 18 (2.24%) Kibana
11 16 (2.00%) logstash
12 11 (1.37%) SCCM
13 10 (1.25%) Nagios
14 9 (1.12%) Argo
14 9 (1.12%) Netcool
15 8 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
16 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.87%) Tivoli
16 7 (0.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 127 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.85%) Oracle
3 91 (11.35%) VMware
4 72 (8.98%) Red Hat
5 40 (4.99%) IBM
6 37 (4.61%) Cisco
7 35 (4.36%) Dell
7 35 (4.36%) SAP
8 32 (3.99%) Splunk
9 26 (3.24%) ServiceNow
10 21 (2.62%) CyberArk
10 21 (2.62%) Google
10 21 (2.62%) Qualys
11 20 (2.49%) ION Trading
11 20 (2.49%) Sybase
12 19 (2.37%) HP
13 18 (2.24%) F5
13 18 (2.24%) Isilon
14 15 (1.87%) Dynatrace
15 14 (1.75%) SaltStack