Linux Specialist Contracts in England

Linux Specialist
UK > England

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in England is £250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 651 762
Rank change year-on-year +124 +111 -160
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 18 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.016% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.017% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 5
10th Percentile - £526 £528
25th Percentile £225 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -54.55% -12.00% +72.41%
75th Percentile £363 £588 -
90th Percentile £425 £625 -
UK median daily rate £250 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -54.55% -12.00% +51.52%

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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £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 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Specialist in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +123 13 £250 - 1
North of England +29 3 £425 -15.84%
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
North West +20 1 £425 -15.84%
South East +20 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £300 -
Linux Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (50.00%) Finance
3 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
4 7 (38.89%) Ansible
4 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
5 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (27.78%) Security Patching
5 5 (27.78%) Qualys
5 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (27.78%) AWS
5 5 (27.78%) VMware
5 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
5 5 (27.78%) ITIL
5 5 (27.78%) Unix
5 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
6 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (16.67%) Logistics
7 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
7 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 3 (16.67%) Windows
7 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 3 (16.67%) LAN
7 3 (16.67%) WAN
7 3 (16.67%) EPoS
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) Debian
7 3 (16.67%) Retail

Linux Specialist 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 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) Route 53
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) LAN
1 3 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) EPoS
2 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Debian
4 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 3 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
1 5 (27.78%) ITIL
1 5 (27.78%) Security Patching
1 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 3 (16.67%) Logistics
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) ITSM
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
4 1 (5.56%) Re-Platforming
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.11%) Puppet
2 2 (11.11%) Salt
3 1 (5.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Qualys
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) SaltStack
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) SAP