Linux Engineer Contracts in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in London 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 358 370 499
Rank change year-on-year +12 +129 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 42 112 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.47% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 89 84
10th Percentile £407 £445 £416
25th Percentile £450 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.48% +6.45%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £656
90th Percentile - £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £548
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.02% +9.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region 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
Central London +30 1 £725 +20.83% 2
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 across the London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
3 18 (42.86%) Puppet
4 15 (35.71%) Jenkins
5 14 (33.33%) Data Centre
6 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
7 12 (28.57%) DV Cleared
7 12 (28.57%) Azure
7 12 (28.57%) HTTP
7 12 (28.57%) TCP/IP
7 12 (28.57%) Finance
8 11 (26.19%) SSL
8 11 (26.19%) Progress Chef
8 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
9 9 (21.43%) Ansible
9 9 (21.43%) Python
10 8 (19.05%) Apache
10 8 (19.05%) Migration
10 8 (19.05%) AWS
10 8 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (16.67%) DevOps
11 7 (16.67%) Bash
11 7 (16.67%) Load Balancing
11 7 (16.67%) DNS
12 6 (14.29%) Tomcat
12 6 (14.29%) SMTP
12 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
12 6 (14.29%) F5
12 6 (14.29%) Docker

Linux Engineer Skill Set
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 8 (19.05%) Apache
2 6 (14.29%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.38%) JBoss
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) MQSeries
3 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) Cloudflare
4 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.14%) WhatsApp
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) IaaS
7 2 (4.76%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.38%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.38%) PaaS
8 1 (2.38%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) HTTP
1 12 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 11 (26.19%) SSL
3 7 (16.67%) DNS
4 6 (14.29%) SMTP
5 3 (7.14%) Firewall
6 2 (4.76%) Network Security
7 1 (2.38%) FTP
7 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
7 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.38%) IPsec
7 1 (2.38%) SSH
7 1 (2.38%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.38%) VPN
7 1 (2.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) Artifactory
2 4 (9.52%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) Gradle
4 2 (4.76%) Git
5 1 (2.38%) Ant
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Electronics
4 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.14%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Front Office
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) Spring
1 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 3 (7.14%) YAML
2 2 (4.76%) JSON
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.38%) CSS
3 1 (2.38%) eBPF
3 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) LDAP
3 1 (2.38%) Middleware
3 1 (2.38%) Node.js
3 1 (2.38%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (11.90%) Unix
3 5 (11.90%) Windows
4 3 (7.14%) CentOS
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 8 (19.05%) Migration
3 7 (16.67%) DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (9.52%) Agile
5 4 (9.52%) Microservices
6 3 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.14%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (7.14%) Kanban
6 3 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.14%) Programme Management
6 3 (7.14%) Scrum
6 3 (7.14%) SDLC
6 3 (7.14%) TDD
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (4.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (4.76%) Observability
7 2 (4.76%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) Python
2 7 (16.67%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.90%) Java
5 4 (9.52%) PHP
5 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.14%) Perl
7 2 (4.76%) SQL
8 1 (2.38%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) Groovy
8 1 (2.38%) Korn
8 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.38%) Scala
8 1 (2.38%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Firmware
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) NFS
4 1 (2.38%) Samba
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (42.86%) Puppet
2 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.19%) Progress Chef
3 9 (21.43%) Ansible
4 5 (11.90%) Terraform
5 3 (7.14%) Grafana
5 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Cilium
6 1 (2.38%) Nagios
6 1 (2.38%) Podman
6 1 (2.38%) systemd
6 1 (2.38%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) F5
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.14%) SAP
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 2 (4.76%) VMware
5 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint