Linux Engineer Contracts in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in London is £544 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 387 484
Rank change year-on-year +39 +97 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 47 115 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.43% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.45% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 92 93
10th Percentile £407 £428 £413
25th Percentile £453 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +2.39% +15.24%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £713
90th Percentile £650 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
3 21 (44.68%) Puppet
4 15 (31.91%) Python
5 14 (29.79%) HTTP
5 14 (29.79%) TCP/IP
5 14 (29.79%) Finance
5 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
5 14 (29.79%) Ansible
6 13 (27.66%) Data Centre
7 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
7 12 (25.53%) Red Hat
7 12 (25.53%) DV Cleared
7 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
7 12 (25.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (25.53%) AWS
8 11 (23.40%) Bash
8 11 (23.40%) SSL
8 11 (23.40%) Progress Chef
8 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (21.28%) Azure
10 9 (19.15%) Unix
10 9 (19.15%) Docker
11 8 (17.02%) DevOps
11 8 (17.02%) Windows
11 8 (17.02%) DNS
11 8 (17.02%) VMware
11 8 (17.02%) Migration
11 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
12 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (14.89%) Apache
2 6 (12.77%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.38%) MQSeries
4 2 (4.26%) Confluence
5 1 (2.13%) JBoss
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) AWS
2 10 (21.28%) Azure
3 6 (12.77%) Cloudflare
4 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.64%) GitHub
4 5 (10.64%) IaaS
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.38%) SaaS
6 3 (6.38%) WhatsApp
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.13%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.79%) HTTP
1 14 (29.79%) TCP/IP
2 11 (23.40%) SSL
3 8 (17.02%) DNS
4 6 (12.77%) SMTP
5 4 (8.51%) Firewall
5 4 (8.51%) Network Security
6 3 (6.38%) FTP
6 3 (6.38%) HTTPS
6 3 (6.38%) IPsec
6 3 (6.38%) tcpdump
6 3 (6.38%) VPN
6 3 (6.38%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) GitLab
3 5 (10.64%) Git
4 4 (8.51%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.38%) Gradle
5 3 (6.38%) JIRA
6 1 (2.13%) Ant
6 1 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (29.79%) Finance
2 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Electronics
4 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.51%) Marketing
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.38%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Back Office
7 1 (2.13%) German Language
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Italian Language
7 1 (2.13%) Law
7 1 (2.13%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) LDAP
1 3 (6.38%) Spring
1 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
1 3 (6.38%) YAML
2 2 (4.26%) CSS
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
3 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.13%) Middleware
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.89%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (19.15%) Unix
4 8 (17.02%) Windows
5 6 (12.77%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.26%) CentOS
6 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
2 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (17.02%) DevOps
3 8 (17.02%) Migration
4 7 (14.89%) Load Balancing
5 6 (12.77%) Microservices
6 5 (10.64%) Asset Management
6 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
6 5 (10.64%) ITIL
7 4 (8.51%) Agile
7 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
7 4 (8.51%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (8.51%) Programme Management
8 3 (6.38%) Data Protection
8 3 (6.38%) Kanban
8 3 (6.38%) Mentoring
8 3 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) Bash
3 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.77%) Perl
5 5 (10.64%) Korn
6 4 (8.51%) Java
6 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.38%) PHP
7 3 (6.38%) Ruby
8 2 (4.26%) SQL
8 2 (4.26%) tcsh
9 1 (2.13%) Go
9 1 (2.13%) Groovy
9 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) DV Cleared
1 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.38%) Samba
4 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.26%) Firmware
4 2 (4.26%) NFS
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (44.68%) Puppet
2 14 (29.79%) Ansible
3 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
4 11 (23.40%) Progress Chef
5 5 (10.64%) Terraform
6 3 (6.38%) Grafana
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.26%) systemd
8 1 (2.13%) Podman
8 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.13%) yum
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Red Hat
2 8 (17.02%) VMware
3 6 (12.77%) F5
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) SAP
5 3 (6.38%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.38%) Sun
5 3 (6.38%) TOWER Software
6 2 (4.26%) BMC
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) Splunk
6 2 (4.26%) UiPath