Linux Contracts in East Sussex

Linux
South East > East Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 10 19 39
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -23
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 9.41% 4.17% 0.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 22.73% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £499 £443 -
25th Percentile £515 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -
75th Percentile £556 £631 -
90th Percentile - £688 -
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £58.75 -
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -4.62% +22.91% +11.34%

All Operating Systems
East Sussex

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 East Sussex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 22 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 18.82% 18.33% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 11
10th Percentile £378 £158 £165
25th Percentile £413 £200 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £238 £190
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +25.00% -34.48%
75th Percentile £548 £419 £460
90th Percentile £556 £526 £550
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £52.38 -
25th Percentile - £54.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.05% -
75th Percentile - £64.06 £23.00
90th Percentile - £66.13 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £53.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.38% +165.00% +5.26%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in East Sussex

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in East Sussex

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in East Sussex

Linux
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 29 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
Brighton +11 8 £538 +10.26% 1
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Datadog
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) CloudFront
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (37.50%) Route 53
4 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (25.00%) Fastly
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (25.00%) Django
2 2 (25.00%) HornetQ
2 2 (25.00%) VCL
3 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Debian
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Solaris
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (25.00%) Varnish
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (12.50%) SELinux
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas
3 1 (12.50%) VMware