Linux Contracts in Bristol

Linux
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 26 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Linux 45 87 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 4.27% 6.93% 6.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.91% 45.79% 36.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 35 34
10th Percentile £435 £478 £225
25th Percentile £484 £513 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £553 £630 £547
90th Percentile £750 £645 £613
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 36 26
10th Percentile £60.60 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 £60.91 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £75.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 110 190 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 10.44% 15.14% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 115 131
10th Percentile £185 £163 £163
25th Percentile £215 £245 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.95% +31.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £500 £669 £540
90th Percentile £592 £719 £623
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 48 39
10th Percentile £48.00 £19.27 £18.56
25th Percentile £59.94 £53.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +62.50%
75th Percentile - £70.30 -
90th Percentile £70.88 £71.71 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £53.49
% change year-on-year -7.69% +21.51% +113.97%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.11%) GitHub
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.22%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) FTP
2 6 (13.33%) SAN
3 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.89%) LAN
4 4 (8.89%) WAN
5 3 (6.67%) DNS
5 3 (6.67%) Ethernet
6 2 (4.44%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (4.44%) DHCP
7 1 (2.22%) VSAN
7 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.89%) GoogleTest
4 3 (6.67%) Burp Suite
4 3 (6.67%) Eclipse
4 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Electronics
3 4 (8.89%) Legal
3 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Marketing
4 3 (6.67%) Military
4 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 17 (37.78%) Embedded Engineer
2 17 (37.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Ethical Hacker
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Magento Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Principal Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) Qt
2 3 (6.67%) Node.js
2 3 (6.67%) Web Services
3 2 (4.44%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.22%) CSS
4 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) ARM Cortex
2 6 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (13.33%) Replication
3 4 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.22%) STB
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) FreeRTOS
2 13 (28.89%) Windows
3 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.67%) Kali Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
5 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) Software Engineering
2 18 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 12 (26.67%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) ITIL
5 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.56%) Change Management
7 6 (13.33%) DevOps
7 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
9 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (8.89%) Data Protection
9 4 (8.89%) Programme Management
9 4 (8.89%) TDD
9 4 (8.89%) Validation
10 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (6.67%) Ethical Hacking
10 3 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
10 3 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) C
1 17 (37.78%) Embedded C
2 9 (20.00%) C++
3 8 (17.78%) Python
4 7 (15.56%) Java
5 5 (11.11%) C#
6 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.22%) Bash
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.56%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) Degree
5 3 (6.67%) OSCP
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) MISRA
2 3 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 8 (17.78%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.44%) Docker
5 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) vCenter Server
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.44%) Puppet
3 2 (4.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) IBM
1 17 (37.78%) Lauterbach
2 10 (22.22%) VMware
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (17.78%) Veeam
5 6 (13.33%) CheckPoint
5 6 (13.33%) Cisco
5 6 (13.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (11.11%) Google
7 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
7 3 (6.67%) SAP
8 2 (4.44%) Dell
9 1 (2.22%) Adobe
9 1 (2.22%) ArcSight
9 1 (2.22%) Citrix
9 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.22%) Remedy