Linux Support Contracts in London

Linux Support
England > London

The median Linux Support daily rate in London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 468 583
Rank change year-on-year +72 +115 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 5 27 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.028% 0.10% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.11% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 11
10th Percentile £303 £538 £475
25th Percentile £363 £600 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £531 £713 £700
90th Percentile £558 - -
England median daily rate £240 £675 £520
% change year-on-year -64.44% +29.81% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
England median hourly rate - £20.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -61.90% -

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 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
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 £680
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 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Support in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support in London

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Linux Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) systemd
4 2 (40.00%) Grafana
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) UiPath
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) NFS
4 2 (40.00%) BMC
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) Korn
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 2 (40.00%) tcsh
4 2 (40.00%) Bash

Linux Support 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Back Office
4 1 (20.00%) Electronics
4 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Korn
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) tcsh
3 1 (20.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) BMC
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) UiPath
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Temenos