Linux Contracts in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 1,879 3,305 4,606
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.16% 6.82% 6.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.72% 42.09% 41.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 2,320 3,120
10th Percentile £339 £411 £403
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £643 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 146 149
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.75 £27.65
25th Percentile £55.00 £49.76 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +19.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +11.30% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,981 7,852 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.68% 16.20% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,407 5,542 7,575
10th Percentile £185 £193 £173
25th Percentile £300 £325 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £639 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £466 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 370 527
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.21 £17.73 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.50 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London -14 802 £550 -12.00% 530
South East -1 401 £530 +0.95% 337
South West -7 201 £561 +2.05% 187
North of England -8 188 £478 -12.98% 151
Midlands -4 123 £540 - 140
East of England +1 114 £550 +15.79% 159
Yorkshire +13 109 £493 -10.45% 58
West Midlands -10 78 £550 +1.85% 78
North West -41 67 £450 -16.67% 83
East Midlands +25 45 £503 +11.73% 62
North East -5 12 £575 +5.75% 11
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 105 (5.59%) Confluence
2 66 (3.51%) nginx
3 61 (3.25%) Apache
4 51 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 48 (2.55%) OpenStack
6 22 (1.17%) Tomcat
7 19 (1.01%) CMS
8 17 (0.90%) IIS
8 17 (0.90%) JBoss
9 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
10 13 (0.69%) Apache Spark
11 11 (0.59%) NetWeaver
12 10 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
13 6 (0.32%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 6 (0.32%) SAS
14 4 (0.21%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.21%) Luigi
14 4 (0.21%) MQSeries
15 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.53%) Simulink
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.64%) ION Anvil
2 11 (0.59%) SAP IBP
3 8 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.27%) Endur
6 5 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.16%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.16%) Global One
8 3 (0.16%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.16%) Shopify
9 2 (0.11%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.11%) Front Arena
10 1 (0.053%) Magento
10 1 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.053%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 414 (22.03%) AWS
2 390 (20.76%) Azure
3 108 (5.75%) GitHub
4 95 (5.06%) GCP
5 72 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (3.78%) PaaS
7 62 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.77%) OpenShift
8 52 (2.77%) Serverless
9 51 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
10 46 (2.45%) Entra ID
11 45 (2.39%) Amazon S3
12 43 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (1.92%) SaaS
14 32 (1.70%) IaaS
15 29 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
16 28 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (1.44%) Azure AKS
17 27 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
18 26 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 175 (9.31%) Firewall
2 143 (7.61%) DNS
3 116 (6.17%) SAN
4 107 (5.69%) TCP/IP
5 83 (4.42%) DHCP
6 61 (3.25%) WAN
7 57 (3.03%) VPN
8 50 (2.66%) SSL
9 48 (2.55%) Network Security
10 47 (2.50%) LAN
11 46 (2.45%) HTTP
12 38 (2.02%) Wireless
13 37 (1.97%) VLAN
14 31 (1.65%) NAS
15 27 (1.44%) FTP
16 25 (1.33%) SNMP
17 24 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
17 24 (1.28%) SSH
18 23 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
19 22 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 84 (4.47%) Relational Database
3 81 (4.31%) MySQL
4 76 (4.04%) MongoDB
5 64 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
7 43 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 42 (2.24%) RDBMS
9 37 (1.97%) Big Data
10 36 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (1.81%) Oracle Database
12 19 (1.01%) DB2
13 18 (0.96%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.90%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.90%) KDB
14 17 (0.90%) Power BI
15 16 (0.85%) SAP HANA
16 14 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (0.59%) SAP BW
18 10 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 218 (11.60%) Jenkins
2 191 (10.16%) Git
3 154 (8.20%) JIRA
4 131 (6.97%) GitLab
5 77 (4.10%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.70%) Eclipse
7 28 (1.49%) Robot Framework
8 26 (1.38%) Artifactory
8 26 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (1.33%) GoogleTest
10 24 (1.28%) Visual Studio
11 23 (1.22%) TeamCity
12 21 (1.12%) Mockito
12 21 (1.12%) Selenium
12 21 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.90%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.90%) Subversion
15 15 (0.80%) JMeter
16 14 (0.75%) Cucumber
General
1 404 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 269 (14.32%) Finance
3 193 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 113 (6.01%) Banking
6 72 (3.83%) Telecoms
7 44 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 42 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 37 (1.97%) Front Office
10 32 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.65%) Marketing
12 30 (1.60%) Electronics
13 29 (1.54%) Legal
13 29 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.96%) Military
15 16 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.69%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.64%) Retail
19 10 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 251 (13.36%) Developer
2 182 (9.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 164 (8.73%) Senior
4 139 (7.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 134 (7.13%) Linux Engineer
6 118 (6.28%) Software Engineer
7 116 (6.17%) Analyst
8 111 (5.91%) Architect
9 70 (3.73%) Support Engineer
10 69 (3.67%) Lead
11 61 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
11 61 (3.25%) Java Developer
12 57 (3.03%) Administrator
12 57 (3.03%) Consultant
13 50 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
14 49 (2.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 47 (2.50%) Senior Developer
16 46 (2.45%) Network Engineer
16 46 (2.45%) Storage Engineer
17 42 (2.24%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.32%) Kafka
2 78 (4.15%) HTML
3 75 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
4 64 (3.41%) .NET
5 63 (3.35%) CSS
6 55 (2.93%) Web Services
7 51 (2.71%) JSON
8 49 (2.61%) LDAP
8 49 (2.61%) REST
9 43 (2.29%) Spring
10 42 (2.24%) YAML
11 40 (2.13%) Node.js
12 39 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
13 36 (1.92%) Middleware
13 36 (1.92%) XML
14 35 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (1.65%) .NET Core
16 30 (1.60%) RESTful
17 29 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
17 29 (1.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 126 (6.71%) Data Centre
2 111 (5.91%) Linux Command Line
3 81 (4.31%) PKI
4 74 (3.94%) Replication
5 71 (3.78%) Management Information System
6 60 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 55 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
8 43 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (1.97%) Clustering
11 35 (1.86%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.76%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 32 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (1.60%) Derivative
15 28 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
16 27 (1.44%) Client/Server
17 25 (1.33%) Fixed Income
18 24 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
18 24 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 723 (38.48%) Windows
2 364 (19.37%) Unix
3 230 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 188 (10.01%) Windows Server
5 89 (4.74%) Ubuntu
6 64 (3.41%) CentOS
7 57 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 56 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 50 (2.66%) Solaris
10 38 (2.02%) VMS
11 34 (1.81%) Mac OS X
11 34 (1.81%) zOS
12 31 (1.65%) AIX
12 31 (1.65%) Debian
13 29 (1.54%) Apple iOS
14 25 (1.33%) Android
14 25 (1.33%) Windows 10
15 23 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
15 23 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
16 19 (1.01%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (22.14%) Agile
2 400 (21.29%) DevOps
3 376 (20.01%) CI/CD
4 245 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 208 (11.07%) Software Engineering
6 186 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 165 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
8 161 (8.57%) ITIL
9 148 (7.88%) Configuration Management
10 139 (7.40%) Scrum
11 137 (7.29%) Migration
12 126 (6.71%) Test Automation
13 124 (6.60%) Continuous Integration
14 123 (6.55%) Containerisation
15 109 (5.80%) Disaster Recovery
16 108 (5.75%) Microservices
17 102 (5.43%) Computer Science
18 94 (5.00%) Task Automation
18 94 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 520 (27.67%) Python
2 242 (12.88%) PowerShell
3 241 (12.83%) Java
4 226 (12.03%) SQL
5 198 (10.54%) Bash
6 161 (8.57%) C++
7 133 (7.08%) JavaScript
8 126 (6.71%) C#
9 119 (6.33%) C
10 115 (6.12%) Shell Script
11 69 (3.67%) Go
12 60 (3.19%) Perl
13 44 (2.34%) PHP
14 37 (1.97%) VBScript
15 28 (1.49%) T-SQL
16 23 (1.22%) Bicep
17 21 (1.12%) Embedded C
18 20 (1.06%) JCL
19 19 (1.01%) VB
20 18 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 689 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 432 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 289 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 180 (9.58%) Degree
5 59 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.65%) CCNA
8 24 (1.28%) CCNP
9 23 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.80%) OSCP
12 13 (0.69%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.69%) GIAC
13 11 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.53%) CREST Certified
14 10 (0.53%) MCSE
15 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.19%) QA
2 49 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (2.34%) NIST
4 42 (2.24%) GDPR
5 31 (1.65%) SLA
6 19 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.90%) HIPAA
8 16 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.64%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 11 (0.59%) MISRA
12 10 (0.53%) ISO 9000
13 9 (0.48%) NCSC
14 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.21%) ISO 15022
15 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.16%) COBIT
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 250 (13.30%) Docker
2 235 (12.51%) Active Directory
3 213 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 91 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
5 69 (3.67%) Hyper-V
5 69 (3.67%) VMware ESXi
6 68 (3.62%) vSphere
7 59 (3.14%) VMware NSX
8 42 (2.24%) NFS
9 41 (2.18%) Firmware
10 27 (1.44%) KVM
11 20 (1.06%) Time Sharing Option
12 18 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
13 17 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 13 (0.69%) HDFS
15 11 (0.59%) iptables
16 7 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 6 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 6 (0.32%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 366 (19.48%) Ansible
2 309 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 265 (14.10%) Terraform
4 106 (5.64%) Grafana
5 101 (5.38%) Puppet
6 98 (5.22%) Prometheus
7 78 (4.15%) SCCM
8 51 (2.71%) Progress Chef
9 45 (2.39%) SCOM
10 44 (2.34%) NetBackup
11 43 (2.29%) WSUS
12 38 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
12 38 (2.02%) vCenter Server
13 37 (1.97%) Kibana
14 36 (1.92%) Packer
15 31 (1.65%) EMC NetWorker
16 27 (1.44%) logstash
17 25 (1.33%) PowerCLI
17 25 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
17 25 (1.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 337 (17.94%) VMware
2 329 (17.51%) Microsoft
3 199 (10.59%) Red Hat
4 185 (9.85%) Oracle
5 110 (5.85%) IBM
6 104 (5.53%) Dell
7 95 (5.06%) Cisco
8 89 (4.74%) Splunk
9 73 (3.89%) HP
10 62 (3.30%) Google
11 59 (3.14%) Atlassian
12 57 (3.03%) SAP
13 45 (2.39%) ServiceNow
14 43 (2.29%) Brocade
15 40 (2.13%) EMC
16 37 (1.97%) Veeam
17 33 (1.76%) Palo Alto
17 33 (1.76%) Veritas
18 30 (1.60%) F5
19 28 (1.49%) Symantec