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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Linux 65 74 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 6.17% 6.34% 6.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.00% 45.40% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 31
10th Percentile £429 £463 £270
25th Percentile £463 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £533 £634 £575
90th Percentile £602 £675 £613
South West median daily rate £561 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.05% +4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 26
10th Percentile £64.63 - -
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 £65.75
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 125 163 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 11.86% 13.97% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 101 127
10th Percentile £185 £185 £163
25th Percentile £227 £275 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% +29.41% +28.30%
75th Percentile £522 £675 £550
90th Percentile £582 £719 £623
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £445
% change year-on-year - +12.36% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 40 34
10th Percentile £48.90 £29.85 £19.18
25th Percentile £61.25 £59.12 £59.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +64.56%
75th Percentile - £70.30 -
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +18.18% +181.83%

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

Linux
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 4 (6.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) GitHub
2 11 (16.92%) Azure
3 7 (10.77%) AWS
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.54%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.54%) PaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Firewall
1 7 (10.77%) TCP/IP
2 6 (9.23%) FTP
2 6 (9.23%) SAN
3 5 (7.69%) Ethernet
4 4 (6.15%) HTTP
4 4 (6.15%) LAN
4 4 (6.15%) WAN
5 3 (4.62%) DNS
6 2 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (3.08%) DHCP
7 1 (1.54%) VSAN
7 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Triplestore
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) JIRA
2 11 (16.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.31%) GoogleTest
4 5 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 5 (7.69%) Visual Studio
5 4 (6.15%) GitLab
6 3 (4.62%) Burp Suite
7 2 (3.08%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Military
2 5 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Electronics
3 4 (6.15%) Legal
3 4 (6.15%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.62%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.62%) Finance
4 3 (4.62%) Marketing
4 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Automotive
5 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (53.85%) Software Engineer
2 19 (29.23%) Embedded Engineer
2 19 (29.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) C++ Software Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Java Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Network Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Linux Support
7 3 (4.62%) Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Ethical Hacker
7 3 (4.62%) Linux Specialist
7 3 (4.62%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) IT Support
8 2 (3.08%) IT Support Specialist
8 2 (3.08%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) Qt
2 5 (7.69%) CSS
2 5 (7.69%) HTML
2 5 (7.69%) Node.js
2 5 (7.69%) Web Services
3 4 (6.15%) Apache Jena
3 4 (6.15%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (6.15%) GraphQL
3 4 (6.15%) Kafka
3 4 (6.15%) PostGIS
3 4 (6.15%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.23%) ARM Cortex
2 12 (18.46%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (9.23%) Replication
5 3 (4.62%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) PKI
6 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.54%) STB
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.23%) FreeRTOS
2 15 (23.08%) Windows
3 9 (13.85%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.23%) Ubuntu
5 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.15%) Rocky
7 3 (4.62%) Kali Linux
7 3 (4.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (55.38%) Software Engineering
2 20 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 20 (30.77%) Configuration Management
3 18 (27.69%) Agile
4 16 (24.62%) DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) ITIL
6 7 (10.77%) Change Management
6 7 (10.77%) Visualisation
7 6 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (9.23%) TDD
7 6 (9.23%) Validation
8 5 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (7.69%) Digital Twin
8 5 (7.69%) Synthetic Environment
8 5 (7.69%) Unit Testing
8 5 (7.69%) Verification and Validation
9 4 (6.15%) Containerisation
9 4 (6.15%) Data Protection
9 4 (6.15%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.23%) C
1 19 (29.23%) Embedded C
2 17 (26.15%) C++
3 14 (21.54%) Python
4 13 (20.00%) Java
5 10 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.77%) C#
7 6 (9.23%) Bash
8 4 (6.15%) SPARQL
9 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.54%) Bicep
10 1 (1.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (52.31%) Security Cleared
2 25 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) Degree
5 3 (4.62%) OSCP
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) MISRA
2 3 (4.62%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.08%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) VMware NSX
2 8 (12.31%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (10.77%) Docker
4 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) vCenter Server
2 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.69%) Terraform
4 2 (3.08%) Puppet
4 2 (3.08%) SCCM
5 1 (1.54%) Ansible
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) IBM
1 19 (29.23%) Lauterbach
2 11 (16.92%) Google
2 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.92%) VMware
3 8 (12.31%) Veeam
4 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.23%) CheckPoint
5 6 (9.23%) Cisco
5 6 (9.23%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.62%) SAP
7 2 (3.08%) Dell
8 1 (1.54%) Adobe
8 1 (1.54%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.54%) Citrix
8 1 (1.54%) Remedy