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 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 459 534
Rank change year-on-year +45 +75 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 134 198 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.42% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 147 186
10th Percentile £376 £395 £364
25th Percentile £450 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £595 £669 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £559 £525
% change year-on-year -6.08% +6.48% +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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +42 47 £550 -8.33% 19
South East +34 34 £500 -9.09% 12
North of England +25 19 £450 -7.69% 5
East of England +21 19 £550 +4.76% 11
South West +28 9 £550 +10.00% 12
North West +19 9 £425 +21.43% 2
Yorkshire +26 8 £613 +11.87% 3
Midlands +20 5 £500 +7.24% 4
West Midlands +10 3 £450 -15.09%
East Midlands +18 2 £500 +18.34% 4
North East +17 2 £423 -19.43%
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 49 (36.57%) Red Hat
3 41 (30.60%) Python
4 40 (29.85%) Security Cleared
4 40 (29.85%) Ansible
5 34 (25.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (25.37%) VMware
6 33 (24.63%) Bash
7 28 (20.90%) Unix
7 28 (20.90%) Kubernetes
7 28 (20.90%) CI/CD
8 27 (20.15%) Windows
8 27 (20.15%) AWS
9 25 (18.66%) VMware Infrastructure
10 21 (15.67%) Puppet
10 21 (15.67%) Jenkins
11 20 (14.93%) DV Cleared
11 20 (14.93%) Git
11 20 (14.93%) Finance
12 19 (14.18%) Azure
13 18 (13.43%) TCP/IP
13 18 (13.43%) Data Centre
13 18 (13.43%) Social Skills
14 17 (12.69%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (12.69%) SC Cleared
14 17 (12.69%) Agile
14 17 (12.69%) Software Engineering
15 16 (11.94%) DNS
15 16 (11.94%) C++
16 15 (11.19%) Shell Script

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 11 (8.21%) Apache
2 7 (5.22%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.73%) Confluence
4 4 (2.99%) MQSeries
4 4 (2.99%) nginx
5 2 (1.49%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.75%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.15%) AWS
2 19 (14.18%) Azure
3 10 (7.46%) IaaS
4 7 (5.22%) GitHub
5 6 (4.48%) Cloudflare
5 6 (4.48%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.48%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.73%) Datadog
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.24%) CloudFront
8 3 (2.24%) Route 53
8 3 (2.24%) SaaS
8 3 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.24%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.49%) Fastly
9 2 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.43%) TCP/IP
2 16 (11.94%) DNS
3 15 (11.19%) HTTP
4 12 (8.96%) 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%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.97%) MongoDB
1 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.48%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
2 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.73%) MySQL
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%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.93%) Git
3 12 (8.96%) GitLab
4 7 (5.22%) Artifactory
4 7 (5.22%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.22%) JIRA
5 3 (2.24%) Gradle
6 2 (1.49%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.49%) Subversion
7 1 (0.75%) Ant
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.75%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.75%) TestRail
7 1 (0.75%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (14.93%) Finance
2 18 (13.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.48%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.73%) Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Electronics
6 4 (2.99%) Marketing
6 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
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%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.49%) Italian Language
7 2 (1.49%) Law
7 2 (1.49%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.75%) Aviation
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
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
3 4 (2.99%) Web Services
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
5 2 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.49%) Django
5 2 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
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%) HTML
6 1 (0.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Data Centre
2 17 (12.69%) 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%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.49%) PKI
6 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (100.00%) Linux
2 34 (25.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (20.90%) Unix
4 27 (20.15%) Windows
5 15 (11.19%) Windows Server
6 14 (10.45%) 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%) AIX
13 1 (0.75%) Fedora
13 1 (0.75%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (20.90%) CI/CD
2 17 (12.69%) Agile
2 17 (12.69%) Software Engineering
3 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (11.19%) ITIL
4 14 (10.45%) Migration
4 14 (10.45%) Scrum
5 11 (8.21%) DevOps
5 11 (8.21%) High Availability
5 11 (8.21%) Runbook
6 10 (7.46%) Change Management
6 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (7.46%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (7.46%) Project Delivery
6 10 (7.46%) Visualisation
7 9 (6.72%) Containerisation
7 9 (6.72%) Customer Service
7 9 (6.72%) Data Analysis
7 9 (6.72%) Multithreading
7 9 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 41 (30.60%) Python
2 33 (24.63%) Bash
3 16 (11.94%) C++
4 15 (11.19%) Shell Script
5 13 (9.70%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.46%) C
7 9 (6.72%) Perl
8 8 (5.97%) SQL
9 7 (5.22%) Java
9 7 (5.22%) MATLAB
10 5 (3.73%) C#
11 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.99%) Korn
12 3 (2.24%) PHP
13 2 (1.49%) Ruby
13 2 (1.49%) tcsh
14 1 (0.75%) Groovy
14 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.75%) R
14 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.93%) DV Cleared
3 17 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.72%) Degree
5 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) LPIC
7 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 14 (10.45%) 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%) NFS
8 2 (1.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.49%) Varnish
8 2 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.75%) iptables
9 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (29.85%) Ansible
2 28 (20.90%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.67%) Puppet
4 13 (9.70%) Progress Chef
5 10 (7.46%) Red Hat Satellite
5 10 (7.46%) Terraform
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
9 3 (2.24%) Podman
10 2 (1.49%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.49%) systemd
11 1 (0.75%) logstash
11 1 (0.75%) PowerBroker
11 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (36.57%) Red Hat
2 34 (25.37%) VMware
3 15 (11.19%) 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
7 4 (2.99%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.99%) Cisco
7 4 (2.99%) HP
7 4 (2.99%) SAP
7 4 (2.99%) Sun
8 2 (1.49%) BMC
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.49%) Splunk
8 2 (1.49%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.49%) UiPath
9 1 (0.75%) Twitter