Linux Contracts in the South East

Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 313 457 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.86% 8.11% 6.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.13% 41.28% 34.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 296 363
10th Percentile £350 £304 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +10.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 21
10th Percentile £33.60 £51.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £61.76 £55.00 £43.23
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile - £71.90 £83.75
90th Percentile £71.13 £75.00 £84.75
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -1.92% +18.18%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 800 1,107 1,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.53% 19.66% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 721 1,016
10th Percentile £203 £173 £163
25th Percentile £326 £210 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £584
90th Percentile £638 £650 £653
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 85 83
10th Percentile £16.22 £16.80 £12.30
25th Percentile £27.19 £27.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.00 £56.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% +229.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £50.39
90th Percentile £71.13 £75.00 £83.50
England median hourly rate £57.50 £47.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +21.05% +98.66% +36.63%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Hampshire +1 133 £550 +3.04% 47
Thames Valley -21 97 £540 +15.38% 85
Berkshire -30 65 £605 +34.44% 40
Surrey +2 56 £450 -16.28% 28
Buckinghamshire +19 24 £480 +1.05% 20
West Sussex +17 15 £460 +44.31% 4
Oxfordshire -8 8 £475 -11.63% 25
Kent +4 2 £440 -16.19% 12
M4 Corridor - 2 - -
East Sussex -6 1 - - 5
Sussex - 1 £550 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (10.86%) Confluence
2 18 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.15%) Apache
4 6 (1.92%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.60%) IIS
6 4 (1.28%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.96%) Drupal
8 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.64%) CMS
8 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.64%) WordPress
9 1 (0.32%) Camunda
9 1 (0.32%) Site Server
9 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (24.28%) Azure
2 49 (15.65%) AWS
3 20 (6.39%) GCP
4 18 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (4.79%) Azure Storage
5 15 (4.79%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.51%) OCI
8 8 (2.56%) GitHub
8 8 (2.56%) PaaS
9 6 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.60%) IaaS
10 5 (1.60%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.64%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 59 (18.85%) Firewall
2 44 (14.06%) DNS
3 39 (12.46%) DHCP
4 21 (6.71%) VPN
5 19 (6.07%) SAN
6 15 (4.79%) BGP
6 15 (4.79%) SNMP
7 14 (4.47%) MPLS
7 14 (4.47%) Software-Defined Radio
8 13 (4.15%) WAN
9 12 (3.83%) TCP/IP
10 10 (3.19%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (2.88%) HTTP
12 7 (2.24%) SD-WAN
12 7 (2.24%) SMTP
12 7 (2.24%) SSL
12 7 (2.24%) Wireless
13 5 (1.60%) LAN
13 5 (1.60%) POP3
13 5 (1.60%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.27%) MySQL
2 19 (6.07%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.83%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
7 7 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.92%) MariaDB
8 6 (1.92%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.60%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.28%) Big Data
10 4 (1.28%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.64%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.64%) Informix
11 2 (0.64%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (19.17%) Git
2 58 (18.53%) JIRA
3 30 (9.58%) GitLab
4 27 (8.63%) Bitbucket
5 20 (6.39%) GoogleTest
6 18 (5.75%) Jenkins
7 15 (4.79%) Eclipse
8 13 (4.15%) Robot Framework
9 10 (3.19%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (2.56%) TestRail
11 7 (2.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.28%) ClearCase
12 4 (1.28%) ClearQuest
12 4 (1.28%) Maven
13 3 (0.96%) CMake
13 3 (0.96%) Selenium
14 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.64%) Gradle
14 2 (0.64%) JMeter
14 2 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 77 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.54%) Public Sector
3 19 (6.07%) Finance
4 18 (5.75%) Aerospace
5 13 (4.15%) Banking
6 12 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.51%) Legal
8 10 (3.19%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.92%) Front Office
9 6 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.60%) Automotive
10 5 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Electronics
12 2 (0.64%) French Language
12 2 (0.64%) German Language
12 2 (0.64%) Police
12 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (12.78%) Developer
1 40 (12.78%) Senior
2 33 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 32 (10.22%) Software Engineer
4 25 (7.99%) Support Engineer
5 20 (6.39%) C++ Software Engineer
5 20 (6.39%) Embedded Engineer
5 20 (6.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 19 (6.07%) Linux Engineer
7 18 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.43%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 17 (5.43%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (4.79%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (4.47%) Unix Engineer
11 13 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.15%) Consultant
11 13 (4.15%) Technical Support
12 12 (3.83%) Architect
12 12 (3.83%) Lead
13 11 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.35%) REST
2 20 (6.39%) SOAP
3 16 (5.11%) HTML
4 15 (4.79%) ARM Templates
4 15 (4.79%) CSS
5 14 (4.47%) YANG
6 13 (4.15%) YAML
7 12 (3.83%) NETCONF
8 11 (3.51%) LDAP
9 10 (3.19%) RESTCONF
9 10 (3.19%) Web Services
10 9 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.88%) Kafka
10 9 (2.88%) LAMP
11 8 (2.56%) RESTful
12 6 (1.92%) ADO
12 6 (1.92%) XML
13 5 (1.60%) .NET
13 5 (1.60%) JDBC
13 5 (1.60%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (7.35%) PKI
3 20 (6.39%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (6.07%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.92%) Derivative
8 6 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.60%) CMDB
9 5 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.60%) SCADA
10 4 (1.28%) Grid Computing
10 4 (1.28%) Replication
11 3 (0.96%) CCTV
11 3 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 126 (40.26%) Windows
2 65 (20.77%) Unix
3 63 (20.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (18.53%) Windows Server
5 33 (10.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (10.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (4.79%) CentOS
8 13 (4.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (3.83%) Windows 10
10 11 (3.51%) Ubuntu
11 10 (3.19%) AIX
12 7 (2.24%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (2.24%) Windows XP
13 4 (1.28%) Solaris
13 4 (1.28%) VMS
14 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.32%) Android
15 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.32%) Rocky
15 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (29.71%) Agile
2 57 (18.21%) DevOps
3 56 (17.89%) ITIL
4 53 (16.93%) Scrum
5 52 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (15.65%) CI/CD
7 48 (15.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (13.42%) Software Engineering
9 37 (11.82%) Computer Science
10 35 (11.18%) OO
10 35 (11.18%) Test Automation
11 27 (8.63%) Analytics
12 25 (7.99%) Storage Management
13 24 (7.67%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (7.67%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (7.03%) Containerisation
14 22 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (7.03%) Release Management
14 22 (7.03%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 76 (24.28%) Python
2 62 (19.81%) PowerShell
3 50 (15.97%) C++
4 44 (14.06%) SQL
5 39 (12.46%) Java
6 38 (12.14%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.67%) Shell Script
8 23 (7.35%) C
9 21 (6.71%) C#
10 19 (6.07%) VBScript
11 18 (5.75%) Bash
12 17 (5.43%) Perl
12 17 (5.43%) VB
13 15 (4.79%) Bicep
14 11 (3.51%) Go
15 10 (3.19%) PHP
16 5 (1.60%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.60%) Rust
17 3 (0.96%) Groovy
17 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 147 (46.96%) Security Cleared
2 105 (33.55%) SC Cleared
3 68 (21.73%) Degree
4 64 (20.45%) DV Cleared
5 23 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (4.47%) CCNA
7 14 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.51%) CCNP
9 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.28%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.96%) HNC
11 3 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.96%) MCSE
12 2 (0.64%) MCSA
13 1 (0.32%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.83%) QA
2 8 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.24%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.96%) NIST
6 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.32%) COBIT
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (18.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (17.25%) Active Directory
3 32 (10.22%) Docker
3 32 (10.22%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (7.99%) Hyper-V
5 20 (6.39%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (4.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (4.15%) Firmware
8 11 (3.51%) VMware NSX
9 9 (2.88%) KVM
10 5 (1.60%) vSphere
11 2 (0.64%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.32%) Ceph
12 1 (0.32%) LXC
12 1 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (19.49%) Kubernetes
2 59 (18.85%) Ansible
3 36 (11.50%) SCCM
4 34 (10.86%) Terraform
5 30 (9.58%) SCOM
6 29 (9.27%) WSUS
7 20 (6.39%) vCenter Server
8 16 (5.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (4.15%) Red Hat Satellite
11 12 (3.83%) Puppet
12 11 (3.51%) EMC NetWorker
12 11 (3.51%) NetBackup
13 10 (3.19%) Progress Chef
13 10 (3.19%) Salt
14 8 (2.56%) Rancher
15 6 (1.92%) Argo
16 4 (1.28%) Grafana
16 4 (1.28%) SELinux
16 4 (1.28%) yum
Vendors
1 74 (23.64%) VMware
2 56 (17.89%) Microsoft
3 51 (16.29%) Oracle
3 51 (16.29%) Red Hat
4 34 (10.86%) Google
5 25 (7.99%) Cisco
6 16 (5.11%) Juniper
6 16 (5.11%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.79%) IBM
7 15 (4.79%) SolarWinds
8 14 (4.47%) Atlassian
8 14 (4.47%) Dell
8 14 (4.47%) HP
8 14 (4.47%) Palo Alto
9 12 (3.83%) EMC
9 12 (3.83%) Symantec
10 11 (3.51%) 3PAR
10 11 (3.51%) Extreme Networks
10 11 (3.51%) F5
11 9 (2.88%) SaltStack