Linux Contracts in Essex

Linux
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 13 28 18
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 8 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 10.13% 3.33% 11.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.10% 21.62% 43.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 28
10th Percentile £295 £257 £444
25th Percentile £300 £379 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £583 £593
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% -1.69% +24.19%
75th Percentile £447 - £631
90th Percentile £492 - £631
East of England median daily rate £425 £450 £490
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.16% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +32.60%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 41 37 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 18.06% 15.42% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 58
10th Percentile £121 £153 £153
25th Percentile £194 £160 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £220 £485
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -54.64% +7.78%
75th Percentile £475 £522 £609
90th Percentile £547 £648 £631
East of England median daily rate £350 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £13.73 £20.04 £21.58
25th Percentile £15.04 £20.85 -
Median hourly rate £28.04 £23.31 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% -17.95% -6.08%
75th Percentile £48.98 £24.62 £40.85
90th Percentile £64.59 - £50.00
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £17.61 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.46% -11.95% +23.08%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Essex 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
Brentwood +1 21 £308 -
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
1 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (4.35%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
1 1 (4.35%) OCI
1 1 (4.35%) PaaS
1 1 (4.35%) Route 53
1 1 (4.35%) SaaS
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) 802.11
1 1 (4.35%) Broadband
1 1 (4.35%) RTMP
1 1 (4.35%) RTP
1 1 (4.35%) RTSP
1 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (4.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) CMake
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Law
3 1 (4.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Firmware Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Audio Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) DTV Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DTV Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) C Developer
5 1 (4.35%) C/C++ Developer
5 1 (4.35%) C++ Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Yocto
2 1 (4.35%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
2 1 (4.35%) FFmpeg
2 1 (4.35%) GStreamer
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) STB
2 6 (26.09%) Digital TV
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) CentOS
1 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Open Source
3 3 (13.04%) Multithreading
4 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (8.70%) Project Management
5 1 (4.35%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.35%) Coaching
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineering
5 1 (4.35%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.35%) ETL
5 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.35%) Migration
5 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.35%) Programme Management
5 1 (4.35%) Security Hardening
5 1 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) C
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) C++
4 2 (8.70%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Jython
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Firmware
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Splunk
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat