Linux Contracts in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 1,872 3,517 4,694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.04% 6.94% 6.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.93% 42.40% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 2,494 3,176
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £496 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 158 152
10th Percentile £25.50 £28.70 £39.68
25th Percentile £48.00 £50.35 £46.83
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,069 8,295 11,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.64% 16.37% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,448 5,916 7,651
10th Percentile £181 £193 £170
25th Percentile £283 £325 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 397 565
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.11 £13.30
25th Percentile £15.06 £17.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%
75th Percentile £59.63 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -42.86% +72.80% +24.57%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
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 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 -13 801 £565 -9.60% 397
South East 0 397 £525 -4.55% 236
North of England -8 202 £478 -9.05% 147
South West -9 175 £600 +9.09% 179
Midlands -8 121 £550 +1.85% 122
East of England +2 117 £425 -5.56% 133
Yorkshire +16 110 £500 -4.76% 54
North West -39 79 £450 -14.69% 85
West Midlands -16 77 £550 +1.85% 65
East Midlands +31 43 £538 +19.52% 57
North East +2 13 £550 -18.52% 11
Linux
UK

Linux
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 99 (5.29%) Confluence
2 65 (3.47%) Apache
3 59 (3.15%) nginx
4 55 (2.94%) OpenStack
5 48 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 34 (1.82%) Tomcat
7 30 (1.60%) IIS
8 17 (0.91%) CMS
9 16 (0.85%) JBoss
10 15 (0.80%) Apache Spark
10 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
11 10 (0.53%) NetWeaver
12 9 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (0.48%) SAS
13 4 (0.21%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.21%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.21%) Luigi
13 4 (0.21%) MQSeries
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.53%) Simulink
4 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.64%) ION Anvil
2 10 (0.53%) SAP IBP
3 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.43%) ION MarketView
5 7 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.27%) Endur
8 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.16%) Global One
9 3 (0.16%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.16%) Shopify
10 2 (0.11%) Advent Geneva
10 2 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
10 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.11%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.11%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
10 2 (0.11%) RMDS
11 1 (0.053%) Magento
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 402 (21.47%) AWS
2 387 (20.67%) Azure
3 102 (5.45%) GitHub
4 88 (4.70%) GCP
5 72 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (3.63%) PaaS
7 65 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (3.21%) Serverless
9 55 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (2.72%) Amazon S3
11 45 (2.40%) OpenShift
12 43 (2.30%) Entra ID
13 40 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (2.08%) SaaS
15 38 (2.03%) IaaS
16 34 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
17 28 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 27 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
19 26 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
19 26 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 177 (9.46%) Firewall
2 147 (7.85%) DNS
3 130 (6.94%) SAN
4 120 (6.41%) TCP/IP
5 80 (4.27%) DHCP
6 59 (3.15%) VPN
7 58 (3.10%) WAN
8 55 (2.94%) Wireless
9 52 (2.78%) Network Security
9 52 (2.78%) SSL
10 48 (2.56%) LAN
11 46 (2.46%) HTTP
12 40 (2.14%) VLAN
13 35 (1.87%) NAS
14 27 (1.44%) FTP
15 24 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
16 23 (1.23%) VSAN
17 20 (1.07%) Fibre Channel
17 20 (1.07%) SNMP
18 18 (0.96%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (5.72%) SQL Server
2 80 (4.27%) MySQL
3 75 (4.01%) MongoDB
3 75 (4.01%) Relational Database
4 62 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 41 (2.19%) Big Data
8 39 (2.08%) Oracle Database
9 36 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (1.92%) RDBMS
10 20 (1.07%) Hadoop
11 19 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 16 (0.85%) Power BI
13 15 (0.80%) KDB
14 14 (0.75%) DB2
15 13 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (0.64%) SAP HANA
17 10 (0.53%) Couchbase
17 10 (0.53%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 215 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 179 (9.56%) Git
3 151 (8.07%) JIRA
4 121 (6.46%) GitLab
5 75 (4.01%) Bitbucket
6 26 (1.39%) Robot Framework
7 25 (1.34%) Eclipse
8 23 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 22 (1.18%) Artifactory
9 22 (1.18%) Selenium
9 22 (1.18%) TeamCity
9 22 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 21 (1.12%) Mockito
11 20 (1.07%) GoogleTest
12 18 (0.96%) SonarQube
13 16 (0.85%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (0.85%) Subversion
14 15 (0.80%) JMeter
15 12 (0.64%) Maven
General
1 394 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 272 (14.53%) Finance
3 203 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 114 (6.09%) Banking
6 78 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 50 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 43 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 35 (1.87%) Legal
9 35 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 32 (1.71%) Front Office
12 30 (1.60%) Marketing
13 27 (1.44%) Electronics
14 16 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.64%) Military
16 11 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 248 (13.25%) Developer
2 165 (8.81%) Senior
3 157 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 135 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 133 (7.10%) Linux Engineer
6 115 (6.14%) Architect
7 111 (5.93%) Analyst
8 105 (5.61%) Software Engineer
9 70 (3.74%) Support Engineer
10 69 (3.69%) Lead
11 62 (3.31%) Administrator
12 61 (3.26%) Consultant
13 58 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
14 53 (2.83%) Java Developer
15 47 (2.51%) Senior Developer
15 47 (2.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 46 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
16 46 (2.46%) Network Engineer
17 39 (2.08%) DBA
18 37 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (4.75%) Kafka
2 80 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
3 65 (3.47%) HTML
4 56 (2.99%) .NET
5 55 (2.94%) CSS
6 49 (2.62%) JSON
6 49 (2.62%) LDAP
7 47 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
8 45 (2.40%) Web Services
9 40 (2.14%) YAML
10 37 (1.98%) REST
11 36 (1.92%) Spring
12 35 (1.87%) XML
13 33 (1.76%) Node.js
14 31 (1.66%) .NET Core
14 31 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (1.60%) React
16 28 (1.50%) Middleware
16 28 (1.50%) RESTful
17 23 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 132 (7.05%) Data Centre
2 104 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 79 (4.22%) PKI
4 77 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 75 (4.01%) Replication
6 64 (3.42%) Public Cloud
7 48 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
8 47 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
9 44 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (2.03%) Clustering
11 34 (1.82%) Algorithms
12 32 (1.71%) Derivative
13 29 (1.55%) Data Structures
14 27 (1.44%) Client/Server
14 27 (1.44%) Onboarding
15 25 (1.34%) Fixed Income
16 24 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
17 23 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 22 (1.18%) Cloud Native
19 21 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 747 (39.90%) Windows
2 351 (18.75%) Unix
3 245 (13.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 194 (10.36%) Windows Server
5 95 (5.07%) Ubuntu
6 68 (3.63%) CentOS
7 59 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 54 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 48 (2.56%) Solaris
10 39 (2.08%) VMS
11 38 (2.03%) Debian
12 33 (1.76%) Mac OS X
13 30 (1.60%) AIX
14 28 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
14 28 (1.50%) zOS
15 27 (1.44%) Apple iOS
16 26 (1.39%) Android
17 25 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
18 23 (1.23%) Windows 10
19 18 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (21.47%) Agile
2 382 (20.41%) DevOps
3 358 (19.12%) CI/CD
4 253 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 198 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 197 (10.52%) Software Engineering
8 178 (9.51%) ITIL
9 163 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
10 154 (8.23%) Migration
11 142 (7.59%) Configuration Management
12 133 (7.10%) Scrum
13 123 (6.57%) Test Automation
14 119 (6.36%) Containerisation
15 116 (6.20%) Continuous Integration
16 113 (6.04%) Disaster Recovery
17 105 (5.61%) Microservices
18 102 (5.45%) Change Management
19 88 (4.70%) Computer Science
19 88 (4.70%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 536 (28.63%) Python
2 237 (12.66%) PowerShell
3 229 (12.23%) Java
3 229 (12.23%) SQL
4 199 (10.63%) Bash
5 154 (8.23%) C++
6 126 (6.73%) C#
7 125 (6.68%) JavaScript
7 125 (6.68%) Shell Script
8 123 (6.57%) C
9 68 (3.63%) Go
10 64 (3.42%) Perl
11 41 (2.19%) PHP
12 35 (1.87%) VBScript
13 26 (1.39%) T-SQL
14 21 (1.12%) Bicep
14 21 (1.12%) Embedded C
15 19 (1.01%) JCL
15 19 (1.01%) Ruby
15 19 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 677 (36.16%) Security Cleared
2 425 (22.70%) SC Cleared
3 284 (15.17%) DV Cleared
4 171 (9.13%) Degree
5 51 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.66%) CCNA
9 24 (1.28%) CCNP
10 20 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 18 (0.96%) OSCP
12 16 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.85%) GIAC
12 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 13 (0.69%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.64%) CISSP
16 11 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (0.48%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.10%) QA
2 47 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (2.46%) NIST
4 40 (2.14%) GDPR
5 30 (1.60%) SLA
6 21 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.85%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.69%) ISO 9001
9 12 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.53%) ISO 9000
11 9 (0.48%) NCSC
12 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.27%) MISRA
14 4 (0.21%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 15022
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 237 (12.66%) Docker
2 230 (12.29%) Active Directory
3 216 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 97 (5.18%) Virtual Machines
5 68 (3.63%) vSphere
6 67 (3.58%) Hyper-V
7 64 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
8 52 (2.78%) VMware NSX
9 40 (2.14%) NFS
10 39 (2.08%) Firmware
11 27 (1.44%) KVM
12 19 (1.01%) Time Sharing Option
13 17 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
14 14 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 13 (0.69%) HDFS
16 11 (0.59%) iptables
17 6 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 6 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 6 (0.32%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.27%) Samba
Systems Management
1 367 (19.60%) Ansible
2 286 (15.28%) Kubernetes
3 258 (13.78%) Terraform
4 115 (6.14%) Puppet
5 112 (5.98%) Grafana
6 100 (5.34%) Prometheus
7 77 (4.11%) SCCM
8 56 (2.99%) Progress Chef
9 45 (2.40%) Kibana
10 44 (2.35%) NetBackup
11 42 (2.24%) SCOM
12 39 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
13 38 (2.03%) WSUS
14 36 (1.92%) vCenter Server
15 34 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
16 32 (1.71%) logstash
17 29 (1.55%) Packer
18 26 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
19 25 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
20 24 (1.28%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 342 (18.27%) VMware
2 335 (17.90%) Microsoft
3 225 (12.02%) Red Hat
4 173 (9.24%) Oracle
5 109 (5.82%) IBM
6 105 (5.61%) Dell
7 95 (5.07%) Cisco
8 89 (4.75%) Splunk
9 79 (4.22%) HP
10 67 (3.58%) Atlassian
11 54 (2.88%) Google
12 47 (2.51%) SAP
13 43 (2.30%) EMC
14 42 (2.24%) Brocade
15 41 (2.19%) ServiceNow
16 39 (2.08%) Veeam
17 34 (1.82%) Veritas
18 30 (1.60%) Palo Alto
19 29 (1.55%) Qualys
20 27 (1.44%) Symantec