Linux Contracts in Scotland

Linux
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 15 43
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 -10
Contract jobs citing Linux 157 266 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.39% 9.80% 5.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.35% 52.78% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 168 134
10th Percentile £324 £400 £380
25th Percentile £404 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £558
90th Percentile £750 £750 £612
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £56.00 £49.49 £45.46
25th Percentile £57.50 £53.20 £49.35
Median hourly rate £60.25 £59.79 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +9.71% -18.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £56.63
90th Percentile - £67.66 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +11.30% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 354 504 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.66% 18.58% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 353 320
10th Percentile £178 £160 £150
25th Percentile £313 £260 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £700 £720 £600
UK median daily rate £466 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 25
10th Percentile £17.61 £15.14 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.17 £17.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £39.25 £47.73 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% +169.36% +1.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £47.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Scotland

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Scotland

Linux
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 within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -10 93 £522 -15.98% 18
Edinburgh 0 31 £515 +3.00% 41
South Lanarkshire +14 14 £750 - 1
Aberdeen - 4 £625 - 2
Perthshire +11 3 £475 -
West Lothian +3 2 £650 +62.50% 1
Fife +2 2 £365 - 1
Renfrewshire +1 1 £600 +20.80%
Linux
UK

Linux
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (9.55%) Confluence
2 6 (3.82%) IIS
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.18%) SAS
4 2 (1.27%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) JBoss
5 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.64%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.84%) AWS
2 21 (13.38%) OpenShift
3 13 (8.28%) Azure
4 12 (7.64%) Amazon S3
5 11 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.37%) Serverless
7 8 (5.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 7 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.46%) IaaS
9 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.18%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.91%) OCI
10 3 (1.91%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 2 (1.27%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.27%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.55%) Firewall
2 7 (4.46%) DNS
3 6 (3.82%) SAN
4 5 (3.18%) DHCP
4 5 (3.18%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (3.18%) Internet
4 5 (3.18%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.91%) LAN
5 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.27%) Modbus
6 2 (1.27%) NAS
6 2 (1.27%) SNMP
6 2 (1.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.64%) Network Security
7 1 (0.64%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) Oracle Database
2 8 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (3.18%) InfluxDB
5 5 (3.18%) MariaDB
5 5 (3.18%) MySQL
5 5 (3.18%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (3.18%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 4 (2.55%) DB2
6 4 (2.55%) Metadata
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.27%) Informix
8 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.27%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (11.46%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.83%) JIRA
3 15 (9.55%) Git
4 10 (6.37%) Artifactory
5 9 (5.73%) Maven
6 8 (5.10%) Gradle
7 6 (3.82%) GitLab
8 5 (3.18%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.18%) Selenium
9 3 (1.91%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.91%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.27%) Capybara
10 2 (1.27%) CMake
10 2 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.64%) Gatling
11 1 (0.64%) JMeter
11 1 (0.64%) JUnit
11 1 (0.64%) Subversion
11 1 (0.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Finance
3 21 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.55%) Banking
5 9 (5.73%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.10%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Electronics
9 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (20.38%) Linux Engineer
2 25 (15.92%) Python Engineer
3 21 (13.38%) Developer
3 21 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) Support Engineer
6 13 (8.28%) Java Developer
7 12 (7.64%) Java Scala Developer
7 12 (7.64%) Linux Developer
7 12 (7.64%) Linux Scripter
7 12 (7.64%) Scala Developer
8 11 (7.01%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Unix Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Network Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Embedded Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) JIRA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.64%) REST
2 10 (6.37%) AWS CDK
3 9 (5.73%) Middleware
3 9 (5.73%) Web Services
4 5 (3.18%) Flash
4 5 (3.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 5 (3.18%) POSIX
5 3 (1.91%) Gherkin
5 3 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.91%) React
5 3 (1.91%) Spring
5 3 (1.91%) Yocto
6 2 (1.27%) Java EE
6 2 (1.27%) Redfish
6 2 (1.27%) RESTful
6 2 (1.27%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.27%) WebKit
6 2 (1.27%) YAML
7 1 (0.64%) Kafka
7 1 (0.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.19%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.37%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.82%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.82%) Clustering
4 6 (3.82%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.18%) NVMe
6 4 (2.55%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.55%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.55%) IoT
6 4 (2.55%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.55%) PCIe
6 4 (2.55%) Verilog
6 4 (2.55%) VHDL
7 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.20%) Unix
2 34 (21.66%) Windows
3 27 (17.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (10.19%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.73%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (4.46%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.82%) CentOS
7 6 (3.82%) Debian
7 6 (3.82%) Solaris
7 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.55%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (2.55%) VxWorks
9 3 (1.91%) Kali Linux
9 3 (1.91%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.64%) AIX
10 1 (0.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.57%) Agile
2 34 (21.66%) DevOps
3 30 (19.11%) CI/CD
4 28 (17.83%) Software Engineering
5 24 (15.29%) OO
6 21 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (11.46%) High Availability
7 18 (11.46%) Migration
8 17 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (9.55%) Observability
10 14 (8.92%) Containerisation
10 14 (8.92%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (8.28%) Test Automation
12 12 (7.64%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (7.64%) Task Automation
13 11 (7.01%) Data Migration
13 11 (7.01%) Roadmaps
13 11 (7.01%) Service Management
14 10 (6.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (42.68%) Python
2 35 (22.29%) Perl
3 31 (19.75%) Java
4 17 (10.83%) Bash
5 13 (8.28%) SQL
6 12 (7.64%) Scala
7 11 (7.01%) Groovy
7 11 (7.01%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.37%) C
9 8 (5.10%) Ruby
10 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
11 6 (3.82%) Embedded C
12 4 (2.55%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.55%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.91%) C++
13 3 (1.91%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 29 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) Degree
4 6 (3.82%) MCSA
4 6 (3.82%) MCSE
4 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.82%) RHCT
5 5 (3.18%) RHCE
6 3 (1.91%) OSCP
7 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (3.18%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.18%) SLA
3 4 (2.55%) MISRA
3 4 (2.55%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.27%) QA
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.64%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (7.64%) KVM
3 11 (7.01%) Docker
4 8 (5.10%) Active Directory
5 7 (4.46%) Firmware
6 6 (3.82%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.18%) NFS
7 5 (3.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (2.55%) GPFS
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (14.65%) Ansible
3 17 (10.83%) Terraform
4 15 (9.55%) Grafana
5 7 (4.46%) Kibana
6 6 (3.82%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (2.55%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.55%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (1.91%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.91%) Nagios
9 3 (1.91%) Packer
9 3 (1.91%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.27%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.27%) OpenView
10 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.27%) Puppet
11 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (12.10%) Red Hat
2 18 (11.46%) Oracle
3 17 (10.83%) VMware
4 16 (10.19%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.46%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.82%) Citrix
6 6 (3.82%) Veritas
7 4 (2.55%) Brocade
7 4 (2.55%) EMC
7 4 (2.55%) Google
7 4 (2.55%) IBM
7 4 (2.55%) Intel
7 4 (2.55%) NetApp
7 4 (2.55%) Splunk
7 4 (2.55%) Sybase
8 3 (1.91%) BMC
8 3 (1.91%) Commvault
8 3 (1.91%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.27%) Cisco
9 2 (1.27%) HP