Linux Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 25 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.85% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 0.57% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £480 - £408
25th Percentile £525 £671 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £691 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +53.61% +15.38%
75th Percentile £686 £712 £494
90th Percentile £722 - £513
Scotland median daily rate £550 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 834 872 979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.10% 95.30% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 645 745
10th Percentile £270 £313 £209
25th Percentile £378 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +10.43%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 11
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.97 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.26 £28.75 £25.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +13.75% +13.60%
75th Percentile £47.35 £58.75 £41.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.56 £48.00
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Glasgow

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Glasgow region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Python
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (80.00%) Perl
3 17 (68.00%) Unix
4 10 (40.00%) OO
4 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (40.00%) DevOps
5 8 (32.00%) Banking
5 8 (32.00%) Observability
6 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
6 7 (28.00%) Finance
6 7 (28.00%) Windows
7 6 (24.00%) SQL
7 6 (24.00%) Veritas
7 6 (24.00%) SAN
7 6 (24.00%) Investment Banking
7 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
7 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
8 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (20.00%) High Availability
8 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
8 5 (20.00%) Agile
8 5 (20.00%) Problem Management
8 5 (20.00%) Git
8 5 (20.00%) Java
9 4 (16.00%) Sybase
9 4 (16.00%) DB2

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (16.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) SAN
2 4 (16.00%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (16.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) NAS
4 1 (4.00%) HTTP
4 1 (4.00%) SSL
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) DB2
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Banking
3 7 (28.00%) Finance
4 6 (24.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Flash
1 4 (16.00%) POSIX
2 3 (12.00%) REST
3 2 (8.00%) Redfish
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (16.00%) NVMe
2 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (68.00%) Unix
3 7 (28.00%) Windows
4 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (16.00%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) DevOps
1 10 (40.00%) OO
2 8 (32.00%) Observability
3 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) High Availability
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (16.00%) Capacity Management
5 4 (16.00%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Preventative Maintenance
5 4 (16.00%) SDLC
5 4 (16.00%) Storage Management
6 3 (12.00%) Server Management
6 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Storage Virtualisation
6 3 (12.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (80.00%) Perl
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
1 4 (16.00%) GPFS
1 4 (16.00%) NFS
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
2 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (16.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 3 (12.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (8.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Veritas
2 4 (16.00%) Brocade
2 4 (16.00%) EMC
2 4 (16.00%) Google
2 4 (16.00%) IBM
2 4 (16.00%) NetApp
2 4 (16.00%) Sybase
3 2 (8.00%) BMC
3 2 (8.00%) HP
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) VMware