Linux Specialist Contracts in London

Linux Specialist
England > London

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in London is £250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 482 592
Rank change year-on-year +96 +110 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 13 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.004% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.004% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile - - £560
25th Percentile £225 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.52%
75th Percentile £275 - £633
90th Percentile £283 - £640
England median daily rate £250 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -54.55% -12.00% +66.67%

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 16,343 24,896 37,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,808 18,088 27,120
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 281 447
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in London

Linux Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Specialist in London

Linux Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Specialist in London

Linux Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London - 3 £250 -
Linux Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Finance
3 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
4 6 (46.15%) Ansible
4 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) Security Patching
5 5 (38.46%) AWS
5 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (38.46%) VMware
5 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (38.46%) Qualys
5 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
5 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
5 5 (38.46%) ITIL
5 5 (38.46%) Unix
6 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
7 2 (15.38%) ITSM
7 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
7 2 (15.38%) SLA
7 2 (15.38%) Puppet
7 2 (15.38%) Route 53
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
7 2 (15.38%) SaltStack
7 2 (15.38%) Salt

Linux Specialist 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 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Route 53
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Security Patching
1 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) ITSM
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
3 1 (7.69%) Re-Platforming
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) Salt
3 1 (7.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Qualys
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) SaltStack
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) SAP