Linux Contracts in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 245 293 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.46% 8.67% 8.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.91% 44.53% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 186 155
10th Percentile £463 £425 £377
25th Percentile £500 £464 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £674
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 58 44
10th Percentile £48.20 £51.25 £45.61
25th Percentile £65.94 £60.91 £53.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +26.21%
75th Percentile - £75.50 -
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 558 658 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.99% 19.46% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 453 443
10th Percentile £175 £189 £155
25th Percentile £359 £300 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £643
England median daily rate £475 £502 £500
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.32% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 77 69
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.80 £15.85
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +24.63% +180.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £65.75
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Bristol +14 79 £500 -9.09% 50
Wiltshire -6 76 £582 +10.86% 28
Gloucestershire -10 49 £600 +9.09% 44
Dorset +1 15 £731 +4.46% 8
Devon +3 14 £550 -18.52% 11
Somerset -18 6 £475 +5.56% 25
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 4
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (13.88%) Confluence
2 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.04%) Apache
4 4 (1.63%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.63%) nginx
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (15.51%) Azure
2 36 (14.69%) AWS
3 28 (11.43%) OpenShift
4 26 (10.61%) GitHub
5 9 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.67%) Serverless
6 8 (3.27%) GCP
6 8 (3.27%) PaaS
7 7 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.04%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.82%) IaaS
9 2 (0.82%) Slack
10 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.41%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.94%) VSAN
2 16 (6.53%) Firewall
2 16 (6.53%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.08%) Network Security
3 10 (4.08%) SAN
4 9 (3.67%) LAN
4 9 (3.67%) WAN
5 7 (2.86%) DNS
5 7 (2.86%) VPN
6 6 (2.45%) AMQP
6 6 (2.45%) FTP
7 5 (2.04%) Ethernet
7 5 (2.04%) HTTP
8 4 (1.63%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.63%) IPsec
8 4 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.22%) IPv4
9 3 (1.22%) OSPF
9 3 (1.22%) VLAN
9 3 (1.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (2.86%) InfluxDB
1 7 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.45%) MySQL
3 5 (2.04%) Big Data
3 5 (2.04%) Triplestore
4 4 (1.63%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) DB2
7 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 58 (23.67%) Jenkins
2 57 (23.27%) JIRA
3 32 (13.06%) Bitbucket
4 22 (8.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (7.35%) Git
5 18 (7.35%) GoogleTest
6 9 (3.67%) GitLab
7 5 (2.04%) Eclipse
7 5 (2.04%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.22%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.82%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.41%) Gradle
10 1 (0.41%) JUnit
10 1 (0.41%) Maven
10 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 61 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.61%) Aerospace
4 16 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.27%) Finance
5 8 (3.27%) Legal
6 7 (2.86%) Military
7 6 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Electronics
8 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.22%) Banking
9 3 (1.22%) Local Government
9 3 (1.22%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Automotive
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Law
10 1 (0.41%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (24.49%) Software Engineer
2 28 (11.43%) Developer
2 28 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (10.61%) Embedded Engineer
3 26 (10.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 21 (8.57%) VMware Engineer
5 17 (6.94%) Java Engineer
5 17 (6.94%) Java Software Engineer
6 16 (6.53%) Architect
7 14 (5.71%) C++ Software Engineer
7 14 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.71%) Senior
8 9 (3.67%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (3.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (2.45%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (2.45%) Network Engineer
11 5 (2.04%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (2.04%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.84%) .NET
2 23 (9.39%) .NET Core
3 20 (8.16%) Qt
4 13 (5.31%) YAML
5 10 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (4.08%) REST
6 9 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.27%) Kafka
7 8 (3.27%) Node.js
8 7 (2.86%) Web Services
9 6 (2.45%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (2.45%) CSS
9 6 (2.45%) HTML
10 5 (2.04%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.04%) Apache Jena
10 5 (2.04%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.04%) JSON
10 5 (2.04%) Middleware
10 5 (2.04%) PostGIS
10 5 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.84%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (10.20%) ARM Cortex
3 24 (9.80%) PKI
4 20 (8.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (7.35%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.67%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.86%) SCADA
8 6 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.45%) Replication
8 6 (2.45%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.63%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.22%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.82%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 64 (26.12%) Windows
2 31 (12.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (10.20%) FreeRTOS
4 17 (6.94%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.08%) Unix
6 7 (2.86%) CentOS
7 6 (2.45%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.63%) Rocky
9 3 (1.22%) Kali Linux
9 3 (1.22%) Solaris
10 2 (0.82%) SUSE
10 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.41%) RTLinux
11 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.88%) CI/CD
2 73 (29.80%) DevOps
3 72 (29.39%) Configuration Management
4 69 (28.16%) Software Engineering
5 55 (22.45%) Agile
6 47 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (14.69%) Infrastructure Automation
8 30 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (11.43%) Task Automation
10 26 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (9.39%) OO
12 21 (8.57%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (8.57%) OOP
13 18 (7.35%) Containerisation
13 18 (7.35%) Converged Infrastructure
14 17 (6.94%) ITIL
14 17 (6.94%) Validation
15 16 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 15 (6.12%) Service Management
17 12 (4.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (32.65%) Python
2 56 (22.86%) PowerShell
3 46 (18.78%) C
4 44 (17.96%) Java
5 32 (13.06%) C++
6 25 (10.20%) Bash
6 25 (10.20%) Embedded C
7 18 (7.35%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.12%) SQL
9 11 (4.49%) Go
10 10 (4.08%) C#
11 7 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.04%) PHP
12 5 (2.04%) SPARQL
13 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.22%) Ruby
14 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.82%) Perl
15 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 161 (65.71%) Security Cleared
2 92 (37.55%) SC Cleared
3 62 (25.31%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.35%) Degree
5 5 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.63%) HND
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.22%) OSCP
8 2 (0.82%) MCSE
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CEH
9 1 (0.41%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.41%) GIAC
9 1 (0.41%) PhD
9 1 (0.41%) RHCE
9 1 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.16%) MISRA
2 9 (3.67%) QA
3 8 (3.27%) NIST
4 6 (2.45%) GDPR
5 4 (1.63%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.22%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.41%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.41%) JTAG
System Software
1 49 (20.00%) Docker
2 37 (15.10%) VMware NSX
3 34 (13.88%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (9.39%) vSphere
6 9 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.45%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (29.80%) Ansible
2 47 (19.18%) Terraform
3 42 (17.14%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.20%) PowerCLI
5 17 (6.94%) Progress Chef
6 16 (6.53%) Puppet
7 13 (5.31%) Grafana
7 13 (5.31%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.67%) Salt
9 8 (3.27%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.45%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.63%) OPNET
12 3 (1.22%) Kibana
12 3 (1.22%) logstash
12 3 (1.22%) Rancher
13 2 (0.82%) Argo
13 2 (0.82%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.82%) SCCM
13 2 (0.82%) VxRail
13 2 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (21.63%) VMware
2 36 (14.69%) Atlassian
3 35 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 29 (11.84%) Google
4 29 (11.84%) Microsoft
5 26 (10.61%) IBM
6 25 (10.20%) Lauterbach
7 22 (8.98%) Dell
8 20 (8.16%) HP
9 10 (4.08%) Cisco
10 8 (3.27%) SaltStack
10 8 (3.27%) Veeam
11 6 (2.45%) CheckPoint
11 6 (2.45%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.04%) Oracle
13 4 (1.63%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.63%) SAP
13 4 (1.63%) Splunk
14 3 (1.22%) NEC
15 1 (0.41%) Adobe