Linux Contracts in the City of London

Linux
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 104 207 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.72% 5.68% 5.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.36% 40.99% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 146 172
10th Percentile £369 £458 £451
25th Percentile £419 £530 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £677
90th Percentile £750 £756 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £82.50 -

All Operating Systems
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 286 505 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.99% 13.85% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 362 427
10th Percentile £195 £158 £198
25th Percentile £313 £263 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £625
90th Percentile £725 £737 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 15
10th Percentile £19.63 - -
25th Percentile £20.67 - £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £24.56 £59.38 £31.38
90th Percentile £26.03 £74.00 £67.25
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the City of London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the City of London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London Bridge +2 1 £501 -9.00%
Linux
Central London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (4.81%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.85%) nginx
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.92%) IIS
3 2 (1.92%) JBoss
3 2 (1.92%) Luigi
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.96%) SAS
4 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.96%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.96%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.96%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.96%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.96%) Endur
2 1 (0.96%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.96%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.85%) Azure
2 21 (20.19%) AWS
3 11 (10.58%) GitHub
4 9 (8.65%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.73%) PaaS
5 7 (6.73%) Serverless
6 6 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.81%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.88%) GCP
9 3 (2.88%) IaaS
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.92%) NuGet
10 2 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.62%) Firewall
2 5 (4.81%) DNS
3 4 (3.85%) FTP
3 4 (3.85%) Network Security
4 3 (2.88%) SAN
4 3 (2.88%) SSL
5 2 (1.92%) MQTT
5 2 (1.92%) NAS
5 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.92%) VPN
5 2 (1.92%) Wireless
6 1 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.96%) IPv4
6 1 (0.96%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.96%) Junos
6 1 (0.96%) LAN
6 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.42%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.65%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.65%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.77%) DB2
5 5 (4.81%) MySQL
6 4 (3.85%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.85%) KDB
6 4 (3.85%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.85%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.96%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.96%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.65%) Git
2 9 (8.65%) GitLab
3 6 (5.77%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.81%) JIRA
4 5 (4.81%) JMeter
4 5 (4.81%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.88%) Mockito
5 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.92%) GoCD
6 2 (1.92%) Subversion
7 1 (0.96%) AppScan
7 1 (0.96%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.96%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.96%) Maven
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.96%) Pylint
7 1 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 31 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.46%) Banking
5 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.73%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Front Office
7 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.96%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) Electronics
9 1 (0.96%) French Language
9 1 (0.96%) German Language
9 1 (0.96%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.96%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (12.50%) Developer
2 12 (11.54%) Site Engineer
2 12 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (9.62%) Analyst
4 9 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Python Engineer
5 7 (6.73%) Architect
5 7 (6.73%) Implementation Specialist
5 7 (6.73%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Java Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Senior
7 5 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) DBA
8 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Lead
8 4 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.85%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.12%) Kafka
2 10 (9.62%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (8.65%) React
4 7 (6.73%) RESTful
5 6 (5.77%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (5.77%) HTML
6 5 (4.81%) Node.js
7 4 (3.85%) CSS
7 4 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.85%) LDAP
8 3 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.88%) JAX-RS
8 3 (2.88%) JSON
8 3 (2.88%) Middleware
8 3 (2.88%) pytest
8 3 (2.88%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.88%) XML
9 2 (1.92%) Laravel
9 2 (1.92%) Pandas
9 2 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.58%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (8.65%) Replication
4 8 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.73%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.73%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.85%) Machine to Machine
7 3 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.92%) PKI
8 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (37.50%) Windows
2 25 (24.04%) Unix
3 11 (10.58%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.85%) Mac OS X
5 4 (3.85%) VMS
6 3 (2.88%) CentOS
6 3 (2.88%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.92%) Android
7 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.92%) Solaris
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.92%) CI/CD
1 28 (26.92%) DevOps
2 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.35%) Microservices
4 16 (15.38%) Agile
5 15 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (12.50%) Migration
6 13 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 12 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (11.54%) Task Automation
8 11 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (9.62%) Software Engineering
10 8 (7.69%) Containerisation
10 8 (7.69%) TDD
10 8 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (6.73%) Analytical Thinking
11 7 (6.73%) Architectural Design
11 7 (6.73%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 48 (46.15%) Python
2 21 (20.19%) Java
3 16 (15.38%) SQL
4 15 (14.42%) Shell Script
5 11 (10.58%) C++
5 11 (10.58%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.69%) C#
7 7 (6.73%) Bash
8 6 (5.77%) Go
8 6 (5.77%) Perl
9 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.81%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.88%) PHP
11 2 (1.92%) Bicep
12 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.96%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) Degree
4 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.88%) ISEB
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.92%) GCIA
6 2 (1.92%) GCIH
6 2 (1.92%) GIAC
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.96%) MiFID
2 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (16.35%) Docker
2 10 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.81%) NFS
5 4 (3.85%) HDFS
5 4 (3.85%) KVM
5 4 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.96%) Ceph
7 1 (0.96%) iptables
7 1 (0.96%) Lustre
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.19%) Terraform
3 14 (13.46%) Ansible
3 14 (13.46%) Grafana
3 14 (13.46%) Prometheus
4 10 (9.62%) Consul
5 5 (4.81%) Argo
5 5 (4.81%) Puppet
6 3 (2.88%) Nessus
6 3 (2.88%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.92%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.92%) Graylog
7 2 (1.92%) Kibana
7 2 (1.92%) logstash
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.92%) Nagios
7 2 (1.92%) QRadar
7 2 (1.92%) SCCM
8 1 (0.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.46%) Oracle
3 10 (9.62%) IBM
3 10 (9.62%) Red Hat
3 10 (9.62%) SaltStack
4 8 (7.69%) VMware
5 5 (4.81%) Dell
5 5 (4.81%) SAP
5 5 (4.81%) Sun
5 5 (4.81%) Sybase
6 4 (3.85%) Isilon
6 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.85%) Veritas
7 3 (2.88%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.88%) HP
7 3 (2.88%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.92%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.92%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.92%) Juniper
8 2 (1.92%) Temenos