Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £340, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 672 816
Rank change year-on-year +108 +144 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 20 25 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.045% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.048% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 28
10th Percentile - £325 -
25th Percentile - £440 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +20.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £422 £597 £566
90th Percentile £544 £628 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -40.87% +27.78% -27.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
UK excluding London +25 16 £340 -40.87% 8
Scotland +59 12 £340 - 1
England +71 8 £475 -12.04% 7
Work from Home +118 5 £600 +34.08% 4
London +82 4 £415 +3.63%
South West +1 2 £600 -
West Midlands +18 1 - -
Midlands +16 1 - - 1
North of England +13 1 - - 1
North West +12 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (85.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (70.00%) Red Hat
4 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
5 12 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
7 6 (30.00%) Compliance Management
7 6 (30.00%) Clustering
7 6 (30.00%) Solaris
7 6 (30.00%) RHCE
7 6 (30.00%) SLA
7 6 (30.00%) High Availability
7 6 (30.00%) KVM
8 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (15.00%) Terraform
8 3 (15.00%) Puppet
8 3 (15.00%) F5
8 3 (15.00%) Azure
8 3 (15.00%) AWS
8 3 (15.00%) SMTP
8 3 (15.00%) DNS
8 3 (15.00%) Apache
8 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
8 3 (15.00%) PHP
8 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
8 3 (15.00%) Migration
8 3 (15.00%) Cloudflare
8 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (15.00%) Apache
1 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Cloudflare
1 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (30.00%) Solaris
4 2 (10.00%) CentOS
4 2 (10.00%) Debian
4 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Compliance Management
2 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Server Management
4 2 (10.00%) Service Management
5 1 (5.00%) Agile
5 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PHP
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) KVM
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Puppet
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) VMware