Unix Linux Engineer Contracts

Unix/Linux Engineer
UK

The median Unix/Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 664 826
Rank change year-on-year +98 +162 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Linux Engineer 18 33 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.059% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.063% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 18
10th Percentile £499 £494 -
25th Percentile £525 £516 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £418
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +34.13% +28.46%
75th Percentile £563 £663 £508
90th Percentile £570 £700 £573
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £385
% change year-on-year +4.76% +36.36% +18.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Unix Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Unix Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Linux Engineer in the UK

Unix Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix Linux Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Unix Linux Engineer in the UK

Unix Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix Linux Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Unix Linux Engineer in the UK

Unix Linux Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Linux Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +38 16 £550 +4.76% 6
England +75 10 £550 -8.33% 6
Scotland +53 8 - -
Work from Home +109 7 - - 3
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
London +68 2 £544 -22.32%
South East - 2 - -
South West - 1 £488 - 1

Unix Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Unix Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Unix Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Unix
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (44.44%) Perl
2 8 (44.44%) ITIL
2 8 (44.44%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) HP
2 8 (44.44%) Dell
2 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 7 (38.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 7 (38.89%) Change Management
3 7 (38.89%) OO
3 7 (38.89%) Solaris
3 7 (38.89%) Ansible
3 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (38.89%) Rancher
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) SCOM
3 7 (38.89%) IBM
3 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
3 7 (38.89%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (38.89%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (16.67%) BMC
5 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) Network Security
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) Wireshark

Unix Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.56%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) FTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.56%) IPsec
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) tcpdump
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.56%) Advertising
1 1 (5.56%) Finance
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
1 1 (5.56%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
1 18 (100.00%) Unix
2 7 (38.89%) Solaris
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL
2 7 (38.89%) Change Management
2 7 (38.89%) OO
2 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (5.56%) Agile
3 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.56%) Server Management
3 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Perl
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
2 7 (38.89%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
1 7 (38.89%) Rancher
1 7 (38.89%) Red Hat Satellite
1 7 (38.89%) SCOM
1 7 (38.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Dell
1 8 (44.44%) HP
1 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
1 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 7 (38.89%) IBM
3 3 (16.67%) BMC
4 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint