Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 29 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing Linux 659 1,520 2,579
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.50% 6.35% 5.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.24% 46.90% 48.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 1,030 1,788
10th Percentile £325 £410 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £650
90th Percentile £710 £764 £713
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 62 40
10th Percentile £45.63 £47.50 £33.94
25th Percentile £57.81 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% -7.33%
75th Percentile £71.56 £70.96 £65.66
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.48
% change year-on-year - +15.10% +11.83%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,560 3,241 5,363
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.64% 13.55% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 2,273 3,825
10th Percentile £230 £243 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +2.44% +10.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £618
90th Percentile £682 £731 £690
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 111 128
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.85
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £19.66
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +28.83% +16.43%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.50 £64.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £43.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -48.57% +96.63% +27.14%

Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Linux hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 43 (6.53%) Confluence
2 30 (4.55%) nginx
3 29 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.43%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.82%) NetWeaver
6 11 (1.67%) Apache
7 9 (1.37%) JBoss
8 8 (1.21%) IIS
9 6 (0.91%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.76%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 4 (0.61%) Luigi
11 4 (0.61%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.61%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.30%) SAS
13 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.82%) SAP IBP
2 3 (0.46%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) BASE24
4 1 (0.15%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 171 (25.95%) AWS
2 155 (23.52%) Azure
3 40 (6.07%) GitHub
4 33 (5.01%) OpenShift
5 31 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (4.70%) GCP
6 30 (4.55%) PaaS
6 30 (4.55%) Serverless
7 29 (4.40%) Entra ID
7 29 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (3.79%) IaaS
10 24 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.64%) Azure Storage
11 22 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (2.88%) SaaS
13 13 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.68%) Firewall
2 52 (7.89%) DNS
3 43 (6.53%) TCP/IP
4 35 (5.31%) DHCP
5 30 (4.55%) SAN
6 18 (2.73%) SSL
7 16 (2.43%) LAN
8 14 (2.12%) Network Security
9 13 (1.97%) WAN
10 11 (1.67%) VLAN
11 10 (1.52%) VPN
12 9 (1.37%) HTTP
13 8 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (1.21%) SSH
14 7 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (1.06%) FTP
14 7 (1.06%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.91%) Internet
15 6 (0.91%) Wireshark
16 5 (0.76%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.01%) MySQL
3 31 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.64%) Oracle Database
6 23 (3.49%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.12%) SAP HANA
9 13 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.97%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.82%) SAP BW
11 11 (1.67%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.67%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.37%) DB2
13 8 (1.21%) Big Data
13 8 (1.21%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.91%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.91%) Oracle ODI
14 6 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.91%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 68 (10.32%) Jenkins
2 66 (10.02%) Git
3 56 (8.50%) JIRA
4 38 (5.77%) GitLab
5 23 (3.49%) Bitbucket
6 20 (3.03%) Artifactory
7 14 (2.12%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.21%) Maven
10 7 (1.06%) Selenium
11 6 (0.91%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.61%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.61%) Gradle
13 4 (0.61%) IDA Disassembler
13 4 (0.61%) Mockito
13 4 (0.61%) Postman
13 4 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 186 (28.22%) Social Skills
2 120 (18.21%) Finance
3 68 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.55%) Banking
6 22 (3.34%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.97%) Front Office
9 13 (1.97%) Marketing
10 11 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.52%) Electronics
12 8 (1.21%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.76%) Legal
14 5 (0.76%) Retail
15 4 (0.61%) Automotive
15 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.46%) French Language
Job Titles
1 86 (13.05%) Developer
2 76 (11.53%) Senior
3 69 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (7.44%) Architect
5 45 (6.83%) Linux Engineer
6 37 (5.61%) Consultant
7 30 (4.55%) Administrator
7 30 (4.55%) Python Engineer
8 29 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (3.64%) Support Engineer
11 23 (3.49%) DBA
12 22 (3.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (3.19%) Active Directory Support
13 21 (3.19%) Applications Engineer
14 20 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (2.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.22%) Kafka
2 32 (4.86%) Middleware
3 30 (4.55%) YAML
4 28 (4.25%) REST
5 27 (4.10%) HTML
5 27 (4.10%) Web Services
6 24 (3.64%) CSS
7 22 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (3.19%) ARM Templates
9 20 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (3.03%) RESTful
10 19 (2.88%) LDAP
11 18 (2.73%) .NET
11 18 (2.73%) Laravel
12 16 (2.43%) Spring
13 15 (2.28%) JSON
14 14 (2.12%) Sass
15 13 (1.97%) SAP Basis
16 12 (1.82%) AWS CDK
16 12 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.37%) Data Centre
2 35 (5.31%) PKI
3 31 (4.70%) Replication
4 29 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
4 29 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (4.25%) Management Information System
6 27 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (3.49%) Algorithms
8 22 (3.34%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.73%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.43%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.43%) Product Ownership
11 14 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.82%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.67%) Clustering
14 9 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (1.21%) Derivative
16 6 (0.91%) Equities
16 6 (0.91%) Tandem
16 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 237 (35.96%) Windows
2 136 (20.64%) Unix
3 74 (11.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (9.10%) Windows Server
5 41 (6.22%) Ubuntu
6 24 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (3.34%) Solaris
7 22 (3.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (2.88%) CentOS
9 17 (2.58%) zOS
10 15 (2.28%) AIX
11 13 (1.97%) Oracle Linux
12 12 (1.82%) Debian
12 12 (1.82%) VMS
13 11 (1.67%) Apple iOS
14 10 (1.52%) Android
15 7 (1.06%) Rocky
16 6 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.76%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.61%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (26.56%) DevOps
2 154 (23.37%) Agile
3 133 (20.18%) CI/CD
4 97 (14.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (8.80%) ITIL
5 58 (8.80%) Migration
6 55 (8.35%) Microservices
7 54 (8.19%) Test Automation
8 52 (7.89%) Analytics
9 49 (7.44%) Software Engineering
10 46 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
11 45 (6.83%) Containerisation
12 43 (6.53%) Continuous Integration
12 43 (6.53%) Performance Tuning
13 41 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 40 (6.07%) Computer Science
15 39 (5.92%) Configuration Management
16 37 (5.61%) OO
16 37 (5.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 188 (28.53%) Python
2 76 (11.53%) Java
3 75 (11.38%) Bash
4 68 (10.32%) PowerShell
5 66 (10.02%) SQL
6 48 (7.28%) JavaScript
7 47 (7.13%) Shell Script
8 43 (6.53%) C#
9 40 (6.07%) C++
10 37 (5.61%) Perl
11 26 (3.95%) PHP
12 25 (3.79%) Bicep
12 25 (3.79%) Go
13 22 (3.34%) VB
14 20 (3.03%) C
14 20 (3.03%) VBScript
15 12 (1.82%) JCL
16 10 (1.52%) REXX
17 9 (1.37%) TypeScript
18 7 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 118 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 80 (12.14%) Degree
4 68 (10.32%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 19 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.21%) SAP Certification
9 7 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.76%) GIAC
10 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.61%) CEH
11 4 (0.61%) CISSP
11 4 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.61%) OSCP
12 3 (0.46%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.46%) GPEN
12 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.55%) QA
2 17 (2.58%) GDPR
3 14 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.82%) NIST
5 10 (1.52%) SLA
6 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.15%) MISRA
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (14.57%) Active Directory
2 90 (13.66%) Docker
3 52 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (6.83%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (3.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (2.88%) NFS
7 15 (2.28%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (1.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 12 (1.82%) Firmware
9 12 (1.82%) Time Sharing Option
9 12 (1.82%) vSphere
10 8 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
11 7 (1.06%) HDFS
11 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
12 5 (0.76%) KVM
12 5 (0.76%) Snort
13 4 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.46%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.46%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 147 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 131 (19.88%) Ansible
3 91 (13.81%) Terraform
4 46 (6.98%) Grafana
5 36 (5.46%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.46%) Puppet
6 29 (4.40%) SCCM
7 23 (3.49%) SCOM
7 23 (3.49%) WSUS
8 21 (3.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (3.19%) Progress Chef
9 20 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (2.58%) Consul
11 16 (2.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 14 (2.12%) Kibana
13 12 (1.82%) Data Guard
14 9 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
14 9 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
14 9 (1.37%) NetBackup
15 7 (1.06%) Packer
Vendors
1 127 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 80 (12.14%) VMware
3 79 (11.99%) Oracle
4 77 (11.68%) Red Hat
5 37 (5.61%) Dell
6 33 (5.01%) Splunk
7 31 (4.70%) IBM
8 30 (4.55%) SAP
9 22 (3.34%) Cisco
10 19 (2.88%) Qualys
11 18 (2.73%) Atlassian
11 18 (2.73%) Google
12 17 (2.58%) Brocade
12 17 (2.58%) CyberArk
12 17 (2.58%) SaltStack
13 16 (2.43%) HP
14 15 (2.28%) ServiceNow
15 12 (1.82%) Broadcom
15 12 (1.82%) CA
15 12 (1.82%) Isilon