Linux Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Linux Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £340, 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 90 143 161
Rank change year-on-year +53 +18 0
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 25 21 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.79% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.83% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £413 £380
25th Percentile - £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% - -19.10%
75th Percentile - £494 £488
90th Percentile £418 £589 £520
UK median daily rate £500 £559 £525
% change year-on-year -10.55% +6.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,029 2,543 3,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.17% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,767 2,315
10th Percentile £200 £230 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £632 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 50 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.71 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.73 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £66.78 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +19 13 £488 -29.48%
Edinburgh +35 12 £340 -24.44% 1
Linux Engineer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (52.00%) Python
3 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (44.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (44.00%) Red Hat
5 9 (36.00%) Perl
5 9 (36.00%) Unix
6 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
7 7 (28.00%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (28.00%) OO
8 6 (24.00%) Solaris
8 6 (24.00%) SLA
8 6 (24.00%) RHCE
8 6 (24.00%) Clustering
8 6 (24.00%) High Availability
8 6 (24.00%) KVM
8 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (24.00%) Compliance Management
9 4 (16.00%) Grafana
9 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
9 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 4 (16.00%) Observability
9 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
10 3 (12.00%) Ansible
10 3 (12.00%) BMC
10 3 (12.00%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) NAS
1 1 (4.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Banking
2 1 (4.00%) Electronics
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) Redfish
2 1 (4.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Clustering
2 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (36.00%) Unix
4 6 (24.00%) Solaris
5 2 (8.00%) Windows
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (28.00%) OO
2 7 (28.00%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) Compliance Management
3 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (24.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Observability
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.00%) Server Management
5 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (4.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Load Balancing
6 1 (4.00%) Problem Management
6 1 (4.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (4.00%) Software Distribution
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Debt
6 1 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) Perl
3 1 (4.00%) C
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Grafana
1 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.00%) BMC
3 1 (4.00%) Dell
3 1 (4.00%) HP
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Veritas