Linux Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 455 532
Rank change year-on-year +46 +77 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 134 195 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.41% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 149 180
10th Percentile £378 £383 £365
25th Percentile £450 £468 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +11.58%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £628
90th Percentile £650 £738 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 19
10th Percentile £57.75 - £58.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £61.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.24%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux 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 Engineer within the England 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
London +40 48 £538 -10.42% 18
South East +30 34 £500 -9.09% 10
North of England +26 20 £450 +7.46% 7
East of England +24 18 £543 +3.33% 11
Yorkshire +28 9 £613 +11.87% 3
South West +17 9 £550 +10.00% 13
North West +16 9 £425 +21.43% 4
Midlands +18 4 £450 -3.49% 6
West Midlands +20 3 £450 -15.09%
North East +20 2 £423 -19.43%
East Midlands +20 1 - - 6
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Linux 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 134 (100.00%) Linux
2 52 (38.81%) Red Hat
3 42 (31.34%) Python
4 41 (30.60%) Security Cleared
5 40 (29.85%) Ansible
6 35 (26.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (25.37%) VMware
8 33 (24.63%) Bash
9 29 (21.64%) Kubernetes
9 29 (21.64%) CI/CD
10 28 (20.90%) Windows
11 26 (19.40%) Unix
11 26 (19.40%) AWS
12 25 (18.66%) VMware Infrastructure
13 21 (15.67%) Puppet
14 20 (14.93%) Git
15 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
15 19 (14.18%) DV Cleared
15 19 (14.18%) Finance
16 18 (13.43%) TCP/IP
16 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
16 18 (13.43%) Data Centre
17 17 (12.69%) Docker
17 17 (12.69%) DNS
17 17 (12.69%) Azure
17 17 (12.69%) Agile
17 17 (12.69%) Software Engineering
18 16 (11.94%) Windows Server
18 16 (11.94%) Linux Command Line
18 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering

Linux 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 10 (7.46%) Apache
2 7 (5.22%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.73%) Confluence
4 4 (2.99%) MQSeries
4 4 (2.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) JBoss
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.75%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.40%) AWS
2 17 (12.69%) Azure
3 9 (6.72%) IaaS
4 8 (5.97%) GitHub
5 6 (4.48%) Cloudflare
5 6 (4.48%) Datadog
5 6 (4.48%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.48%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.24%) CloudFront
6 3 (2.24%) Route 53
6 3 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.24%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.49%) Fastly
7 2 (1.49%) SaaS
7 2 (1.49%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.43%) TCP/IP
2 17 (12.69%) DNS
3 15 (11.19%) HTTP
4 13 (9.70%) Firewall
5 11 (8.21%) SSL
6 9 (6.72%) VPN
7 6 (4.48%) SAN
7 6 (4.48%) SMTP
8 5 (3.73%) Network Security
9 4 (2.99%) FTP
9 4 (2.99%) HTTPS
9 4 (2.99%) IPsec
9 4 (2.99%) tcpdump
9 4 (2.99%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.49%) AMQP
10 2 (1.49%) DMZ
10 2 (1.49%) Modbus
10 2 (1.49%) MQTT
10 2 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.75%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.97%) MongoDB
1 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
2 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.73%) MySQL
3 5 (3.73%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.99%) Big Data
5 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.49%) Tableau
7 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (14.93%) Git
2 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.70%) GitLab
4 6 (4.48%) Artifactory
4 6 (4.48%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.48%) JIRA
5 3 (2.24%) Gradle
6 2 (1.49%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.49%) Subversion
7 1 (0.75%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.75%) TestRail
7 1 (0.75%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (14.18%) Finance
2 16 (11.94%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.48%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.99%) Banking
5 4 (2.99%) Electronics
5 4 (2.99%) Marketing
5 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.49%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.49%) Back Office
7 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.49%) German Language
7 2 (1.49%) Italian Language
7 2 (1.49%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.75%) Aviation
8 1 (0.75%) French Language
8 1 (0.75%) Law
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.48%) XML
2 5 (3.73%) JSON
2 5 (3.73%) YAML
3 4 (2.99%) LDAP
4 3 (2.24%) CSS
4 3 (2.24%) RESTful
4 3 (2.24%) SOAP
4 3 (2.24%) Spring
4 3 (2.24%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.24%) Web Services
5 2 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.49%) Django
5 2 (1.49%) HornetQ
5 2 (1.49%) Middleware
5 2 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.49%) VCL
5 2 (1.49%) XSLT
6 1 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.75%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (0.75%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Data Centre
2 16 (11.94%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.48%) Clustering
4 5 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.24%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.49%) IoT
6 2 (1.49%) PKI
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 134 (100.00%) Linux
2 35 (26.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (20.90%) Windows
4 26 (19.40%) Unix
5 16 (11.94%) Windows Server
6 13 (9.70%) Solaris
7 11 (8.21%) VMS
8 10 (7.46%) Debian
9 9 (6.72%) Ubuntu
10 7 (5.22%) CentOS
11 5 (3.73%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (2.24%) SUSE
13 1 (0.75%) Fedora
13 1 (0.75%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.64%) CI/CD
2 17 (12.69%) Agile
2 17 (12.69%) Software Engineering
3 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (11.19%) ITIL
4 15 (11.19%) Scrum
5 13 (9.70%) Migration
6 12 (8.96%) DevOps
7 11 (8.21%) High Availability
7 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (8.21%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (8.21%) Runbook
8 10 (7.46%) Containerisation
8 10 (7.46%) Visualisation
9 9 (6.72%) Change Management
9 9 (6.72%) Customer Service
9 9 (6.72%) Data Analysis
9 9 (6.72%) Multithreading
9 9 (6.72%) Project Delivery
10 8 (5.97%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.34%) Python
2 33 (24.63%) Bash
3 15 (11.19%) C++
3 15 (11.19%) Shell Script
4 13 (9.70%) PowerShell
5 12 (8.96%) Perl
6 10 (7.46%) C
7 8 (5.97%) SQL
8 7 (5.22%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.48%) Java
10 5 (3.73%) Korn
11 4 (2.99%) C#
11 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.99%) Ruby
12 3 (2.24%) PHP
13 2 (1.49%) Go
13 2 (1.49%) tcsh
14 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.18%) DV Cleared
2 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.75%) LPIC
6 1 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 25 (18.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (12.69%) Docker
3 11 (8.21%) vSphere
4 9 (6.72%) Active Directory
4 9 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.73%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (2.99%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.99%) Samba
7 3 (2.24%) Firmware
7 3 (2.24%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.24%) VirtualBox
7 3 (2.24%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.49%) Ceph
8 2 (1.49%) KVM
8 2 (1.49%) NFS
8 2 (1.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.49%) Varnish
8 2 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (29.85%) Ansible
2 29 (21.64%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.67%) Puppet
4 12 (8.96%) Progress Chef
4 12 (8.96%) Terraform
5 11 (8.21%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (5.22%) Packer
6 7 (5.22%) vRealize
7 5 (3.73%) Grafana
8 4 (2.99%) Rancher
8 4 (2.99%) SCOM
8 4 (2.99%) SELinux
8 4 (2.99%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 3 (2.24%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.49%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.49%) Podman
10 2 (1.49%) systemd
10 2 (1.49%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 52 (38.81%) Red Hat
2 34 (25.37%) VMware
3 14 (10.45%) Oracle
4 7 (5.22%) Veritas
5 6 (4.48%) F5
6 5 (3.73%) Arqiva
6 5 (3.73%) Dell
6 5 (3.73%) IBM
6 5 (3.73%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.73%) Sun
7 4 (2.99%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.99%) Cisco
7 4 (2.99%) HP
7 4 (2.99%) SAP
8 3 (2.24%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.49%) BMC
9 2 (1.49%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.49%) Splunk
9 2 (1.49%) UiPath
10 1 (0.75%) Temenos