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 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 47 30 37
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 786 1,665 2,441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.45% 6.59% 6.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.25% 45.12% 46.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 1,209 1,785
10th Percentile £330 £450 £440
25th Percentile £450 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £778 £823 £788
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £25.54
25th Percentile - £50.63 £33.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +47.25% -16.51%
75th Percentile - £83.38 £62.19
90th Percentile - £90.00 £66.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%

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 2,110 3,690 5,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.96% 14.60% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,696 3,795
10th Percentile £208 £219 £225
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £624 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £756
England median daily rate £475 £502 £500
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.32% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 83
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £47.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.68% +97.92% -52.00%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £47.54
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.00 £62.90
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 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 7 June 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 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
Central London -5 118 £600 -6.98% 25
West London +16 22 £488 -11.36% 22
East London -6 8 £445 -40.67% 3
South London -23 6 £511 -7.18% 8
North London +1 2 £250 -52.38% 1
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 41 (5.22%) Confluence
2 36 (4.58%) nginx
3 34 (4.33%) OpenStack
4 30 (3.82%) Apache
5 15 (1.91%) Tomcat
6 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.40%) IIS
8 9 (1.15%) Apache Spark
8 9 (1.15%) JBoss
9 7 (0.89%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.76%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 6 (0.76%) SAS
11 4 (0.51%) Luigi
11 4 (0.51%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.38%) CMS
12 3 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.25%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.53%) ION Anvil
2 8 (1.02%) ION MarketView
3 6 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.76%) SimCorp Dimension
3 6 (0.76%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.64%) Endur
5 3 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.38%) Global One
5 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 232 (29.52%) AWS
2 173 (22.01%) Azure
3 56 (7.12%) GitHub
4 52 (6.62%) GCP
5 45 (5.73%) PaaS
6 34 (4.33%) Serverless
7 27 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (3.44%) SaaS
8 26 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.18%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (2.67%) Azure AKS
12 19 (2.42%) OpenShift
13 18 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (2.29%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (2.04%) IaaS
15 13 (1.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.14%) Firewall
2 42 (5.34%) DNS
3 26 (3.31%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.18%) SSL
5 24 (3.05%) SSH
6 22 (2.80%) HTTP
7 17 (2.16%) DHCP
8 16 (2.04%) Kerberos
9 15 (1.91%) SAN
10 14 (1.78%) FTP
10 14 (1.78%) Network Security
11 13 (1.65%) NAS
12 12 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (1.53%) Internet
13 11 (1.40%) VPN
14 10 (1.27%) LAN
15 9 (1.15%) VLAN
15 9 (1.15%) WAN
16 8 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.89%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 58 (7.38%) Relational Database
3 46 (5.85%) MongoDB
4 43 (5.47%) MySQL
5 32 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.69%) RDBMS
8 18 (2.29%) KDB
9 17 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.04%) DB2
10 16 (2.04%) Oracle Database
11 14 (1.78%) Big Data
12 13 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.65%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.27%) Sybase ASE
15 7 (0.89%) Power BI
16 6 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 120 (15.27%) Jenkins
2 100 (12.72%) Git
3 64 (8.14%) GitLab
4 62 (7.89%) JIRA
5 21 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.54%) Artifactory
7 19 (2.42%) Mockito
8 17 (2.16%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.91%) JUnit
10 14 (1.78%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.78%) Maven
11 13 (1.65%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.65%) JMeter
12 12 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (1.15%) Selenium
13 9 (1.15%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.02%) Subversion
14 8 (1.02%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.89%) Gradle
16 6 (0.76%) Gatling
General
1 210 (26.72%) Finance
2 164 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 104 (13.23%) Banking
4 86 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.85%) Investment Banking
7 32 (4.07%) Front Office
8 27 (3.44%) Telecoms
9 19 (2.42%) Marketing
10 17 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.78%) Electronics
12 10 (1.27%) Retail
13 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.64%) Back Office
17 4 (0.51%) Military
18 3 (0.38%) French Language
Job Titles
1 141 (17.94%) Developer
2 102 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (9.67%) Senior
4 57 (7.25%) Architect
5 56 (7.12%) Java Developer
6 48 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (5.73%) Analyst
8 43 (5.47%) Linux Engineer
9 40 (5.09%) Senior Developer
10 39 (4.96%) Lead
11 37 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (4.33%) Applications Support
13 31 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
13 31 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (3.94%) Support Engineer
14 29 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
14 29 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.69%) Consultant
15 28 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 27 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (9.92%) Kafka
2 46 (5.85%) HTML
3 42 (5.34%) REST
4 39 (4.96%) Spring
5 36 (4.58%) FIX Protocol
5 36 (4.58%) LDAP
6 32 (4.07%) CSS
7 31 (3.94%) JSON
8 30 (3.82%) Web Services
9 26 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
10 24 (3.05%) .NET
10 24 (3.05%) Middleware
11 23 (2.93%) React
11 23 (2.93%) XML
12 21 (2.67%) Node.js
12 21 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (2.67%) RESTful
13 18 (2.29%) JPA
14 17 (2.16%) SOAP
15 15 (1.91%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.63%) Data Centre
2 50 (6.36%) Linux Command Line
3 44 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (4.58%) Replication
5 33 (4.20%) Management Information System
6 32 (4.07%) Algorithms
6 32 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.82%) Data Structures
8 26 (3.31%) Fixed Income
9 24 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (3.05%) Derivative
9 24 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 19 (2.42%) Clustering
10 19 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.04%) Hedge funds
12 16 (2.04%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.65%) Cloud Native
14 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 235 (29.90%) Windows
2 209 (26.59%) Unix
3 89 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (6.62%) Windows Server
5 33 (4.20%) CentOS
6 16 (2.04%) Mac OS X
7 12 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.53%) Solaris
7 12 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (1.40%) Android
8 11 (1.40%) Oracle Linux
8 11 (1.40%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.15%) VMS
9 9 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.76%) zOS
11 4 (0.51%) AIX
11 4 (0.51%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (27.23%) DevOps
2 200 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 179 (22.77%) Agile
4 118 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (11.32%) Microservices
6 85 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (9.67%) Migration
8 75 (9.54%) Test Automation
9 73 (9.29%) Containerisation
10 71 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 64 (8.14%) TDD
12 59 (7.51%) Software Engineering
13 58 (7.38%) Continuous Integration
14 56 (7.12%) Scrum
15 55 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 54 (6.87%) Computer Science
17 50 (6.36%) SDLC
18 49 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
19 47 (5.98%) Platform Engineering
20 46 (5.85%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 265 (33.72%) Python
2 166 (21.12%) Java
3 158 (20.10%) SQL
4 93 (11.83%) PowerShell
5 74 (9.41%) Shell Script
6 68 (8.65%) Bash
7 59 (7.51%) JavaScript
8 54 (6.87%) C#
9 45 (5.73%) C++
10 43 (5.47%) Perl
11 39 (4.96%) Go
12 26 (3.31%) PHP
12 26 (3.31%) T-SQL
13 21 (2.67%) C
14 14 (1.78%) Scala
15 10 (1.27%) Groovy
16 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.76%) TypeScript
18 5 (0.64%) Korn
18 5 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 170 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 123 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.76%) Degree
5 34 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.69%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.89%) GIAC
8 7 (0.89%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.76%) CCNP
10 5 (0.64%) GCIA
10 5 (0.64%) GCIH
10 5 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (0.64%) OSCP
11 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.38%) CISSP
12 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.33%) QA
2 19 (2.42%) SLA
3 12 (1.53%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.40%) GDPR
5 9 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.89%) NIST
8 6 (0.76%) NCSC
9 5 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.51%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.25%) COBIT
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) JTAG
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 147 (18.70%) Docker
2 73 (9.29%) Active Directory
3 55 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 16 (2.04%) Firmware
6 16 (2.04%) KVM
6 16 (2.04%) NFS
7 12 (1.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (1.53%) HDFS
8 7 (0.89%) vSphere
9 5 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.64%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.25%) Ceph
11 2 (0.25%) iptables
11 2 (0.25%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.25%) Samba
11 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 167 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 157 (19.97%) Terraform
3 156 (19.85%) Ansible
4 66 (8.40%) Puppet
5 63 (8.02%) Grafana
6 53 (6.74%) Prometheus
7 33 (4.20%) Progress Chef
8 24 (3.05%) Packer
9 22 (2.80%) Consul
10 14 (1.78%) Kibana
10 14 (1.78%) logstash
11 13 (1.65%) ITRS Geneos
12 11 (1.40%) Argo
13 10 (1.27%) SCCM
14 8 (1.02%) Dell DRAC
14 8 (1.02%) Nagios
14 8 (1.02%) Netcool
15 7 (0.89%) Nessus
15 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 132 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 97 (12.34%) Oracle
3 83 (10.56%) VMware
4 71 (9.03%) Red Hat
5 35 (4.45%) IBM
6 34 (4.33%) Cisco
6 34 (4.33%) Dell
6 34 (4.33%) SAP
7 30 (3.82%) Splunk
8 25 (3.18%) ServiceNow
9 22 (2.80%) Sybase
10 21 (2.67%) CyberArk
10 21 (2.67%) Google
11 20 (2.54%) ION Trading
11 20 (2.54%) Qualys
12 18 (2.29%) HP
13 17 (2.16%) Isilon
14 16 (2.04%) F5
15 15 (1.91%) SaltStack
16 14 (1.78%) Dynatrace