Linux DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £565 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 642 752
Rank change year-on-year +110 +110 -173
Contract jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 6 13 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.026% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.027% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 27
10th Percentile £514 £399 £458
25th Percentile £515 £464 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -14.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £709 £638
90th Percentile - £750 £715
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% +11.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux DevOps Engineer in England

Linux DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux DevOps Engineer in England

Linux DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux DevOps Engineer within the England 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 +103 3 £600 +26.32%
South East - 2 £530 - 2
North of England +32 1 £525 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
Linux DevOps Engineer
UK

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Linux DevOps 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 across the England region featuring Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Kanban
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (50.00%) Gradle
4 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (50.00%) GitLab
4 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) WhatsApp
4 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (50.00%) SDLC
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (50.00%) YAML
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Spring
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) Red Hat

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) WhatsApp
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 2 (33.33%) Datadog
3 2 (33.33%) Fastly
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Route 53
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Gradle
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (50.00%) YAML
2 2 (33.33%) Django
2 2 (33.33%) HornetQ
2 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Debian
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Kanban
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) GitOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Go
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Varnish
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco