Linux Contracts in Wiltshire

Linux
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 22 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 78 83 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 8.16% 7.84% 10.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.00% 44.39% 50.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 68 60
10th Percentile £463 £409 £430
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% -2.22% +14.50%
75th Percentile £700 £614 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £657
South West median daily rate £563 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £78.00 -
25th Percentile - £78.75 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +239.62% -44.21%
75th Percentile - £106.25 £39.81
90th Percentile - £110.00 £61.53
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +26.21%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 200 187 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 20.92% 17.66% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 152 131
10th Percentile £413 £200 £240
25th Percentile £463 £250 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £645 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £60.00 £19.10
25th Percentile - £60.38 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +137.74% -47.00%
75th Percentile - £81.75 £27.75
90th Percentile - £100.00 £56.70
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £53.78
% change year-on-year +3.05% +21.80% +156.08%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Corsham +6 65 £604 +5.00% 10
Swindon +4 4 £425 -10.53% 12
Salisbury +6 3 £500 +11.11% 2
Malmesbury -2 1 £550 +4.76%
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 24 (30.77%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.69%) AWS
1 6 (7.69%) Azure
2 4 (5.13%) GCP
2 4 (5.13%) OpenShift
2 4 (5.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.36%) VSAN
2 5 (6.41%) Firewall
3 4 (5.13%) VPN
4 2 (2.56%) Skype
5 1 (1.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.28%) DB2
1 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.28%) MySQL
1 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
1 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (30.77%) Bitbucket
1 24 (30.77%) JIRA
2 20 (25.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 19 (24.36%) Jenkins
4 10 (12.82%) Git
General
1 25 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.49%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (23.08%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.85%) Banking
4 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) VMware Engineer
2 19 (24.36%) Developer
3 11 (14.10%) Architect
4 4 (5.13%) Automation Architect
5 3 (3.85%) Administrator
5 3 (3.85%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (3.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (3.85%) Office Automation Architect
6 2 (2.56%) Analyst
6 2 (2.56%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (2.56%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (2.56%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (2.56%) VMware Specialist
6 2 (2.56%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (1.28%) Identity Management Architect
7 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.77%) .NET
2 20 (25.64%) .NET Core
3 9 (11.54%) YAML
4 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.13%) ModSecurity
6 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.28%) Lucene
6 1 (1.28%) OAuth
6 1 (1.28%) OpenID
6 1 (1.28%) React
6 1 (1.28%) REST
6 1 (1.28%) SAML
6 1 (1.28%) Vue
6 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (33.33%) PKI
2 20 (25.64%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.97%) SCADA
4 6 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (20.51%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Solaris
4 2 (2.56%) CentOS
4 2 (2.56%) SUSE
4 2 (2.56%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.28%) RTLinux
5 1 (1.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) Infrastructure Automation
2 29 (37.18%) Configuration Management
3 23 (29.49%) CI/CD
4 22 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (26.92%) Task Automation
6 20 (25.64%) Converged Infrastructure
6 20 (25.64%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (25.64%) OO
6 20 (25.64%) OOP
7 19 (24.36%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (11.54%) DevOps
8 9 (11.54%) Validation
9 8 (10.26%) Agile
9 8 (10.26%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 6 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
11 5 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.41%) DevSecOps
11 5 (6.41%) NsoIT
11 5 (6.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 2 (2.56%) C++
3 2 (2.56%) Java
3 2 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (2.56%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (2.56%) SQL
4 1 (1.28%) Bash
4 1 (1.28%) C
4 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 72 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 48 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 24 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.97%) Degree
5 5 (6.41%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.56%) MCSE
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.28%) JTAG
System Software
1 23 (29.49%) VMware NSX
2 20 (25.64%) VMware ESXi
2 20 (25.64%) vSphere
3 15 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (8.97%) Docker
6 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (46.15%) Ansible
2 24 (30.77%) PowerCLI
3 13 (16.67%) Terraform
4 9 (11.54%) Progress Chef
4 9 (11.54%) Puppet
4 9 (11.54%) Salt
5 7 (8.97%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.13%) OPNET
7 2 (2.56%) VxRail
7 2 (2.56%) WSUS
8 1 (1.28%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 40 (51.28%) VMware
2 24 (30.77%) Atlassian
2 24 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 19 (24.36%) Dell
3 19 (24.36%) HP
4 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 8 (10.26%) SaltStack
6 4 (5.13%) Cisco
6 4 (5.13%) Google
7 2 (2.56%) Splunk
8 1 (1.28%) IBM
8 1 (1.28%) SAP