Linux Support Contracts in London

Linux Support
England > London

The median Linux Support daily rate in London is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 463 609
Rank change year-on-year +71 +146 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 3 25 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.095% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.100% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 8
10th Percentile - £542 £445
25th Percentile £263 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £288 £709 £700
90th Percentile - £713 £711
England median daily rate £240 £675 £480
% change year-on-year -64.44% +40.63% -18.30%
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 16,469 25,124 36,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 18,241 26,939
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £473
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 325 285 443
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

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
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 12 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 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) tcsh
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) systemd
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Electronics
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Temenos

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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Korn
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) tcsh
2 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Temenos