Linux Contracts in Leicestershire

Linux
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 17 33 30
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 6.37% 1.75% 1.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.26% 7.32% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £477 - £456
25th Percentile £498 - £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £350 £468
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -25.13% +233.93%
75th Percentile £575 - £482
90th Percentile £583 - £485
East Midlands median daily rate £529 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +17.57% -10.06% +25.00%

All Operating Systems
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 43 41 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 27.39% 23.98% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 35 39
10th Percentile £120 £122 £94
25th Percentile £128 £250 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £304 £350 £289
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +21.11% +44.50%
75th Percentile £536 £388 £353
90th Percentile £581 £418 £421
East Midlands median daily rate £338 £363 £323
% change year-on-year -6.90% +12.40% +6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.16 £22.00
25th Percentile - £13.85 £32.50
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £43.34
Median % change year-on-year - -65.39% +237.76%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £46.67
90th Percentile - £22.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £18.50
% change year-on-year -4.06% -4.22% +23.33%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Leicestershire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Leicestershire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Leicestershire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Leicestershire 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
Leicester - 10 £520 -
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) AIX
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (10.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (10.00%) High Availability
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
1 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (10.00%) Statistics
1 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (10.00%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Brocade
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec