Linux Contracts in Lancashire

Linux
North West > Lancashire

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 24 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.09% 10.04% 7.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.29% 36.36% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 14
10th Percentile £503 £543 £572
25th Percentile £506 £550 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +54.29%
75th Percentile £594 £644 £700
90th Percentile £628 £680 £726
North West median daily rate £450 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.09% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 3
10th Percentile - £25.75 -
25th Percentile - £26.63 £41.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £37.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -11.76% -26.72%
75th Percentile - £50.77 £46.16
90th Percentile - £52.13 £47.60
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £40.00 £44.94
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.99% -18.30%

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 66 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.76% 27.62% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 40
10th Percentile £170 £140 £156
25th Percentile £189 £149 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £250 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £494 £575 £650
90th Percentile £538 £640 £700
North West median daily rate £438 £484 £425
% change year-on-year -9.61% +13.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 11
10th Percentile £22.01 £25.75 £16.87
25th Percentile £26.25 £29.30 £16.93
Median hourly rate £48.00 £42.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% +6.99% -9.20%
75th Percentile - £49.40 £43.75
90th Percentile - £51.09 £48.56
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.25
% change year-on-year -45.39% +60.55% +7.35%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Lancashire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Lancashire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Preston 0 2 £650 - 3
Lancaster - 1 - -
Skelmersdale - 1 £525 -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Lucene
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Information Retrieval
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft