Linux Contracts in Manchester

Linux
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 51 117 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.44% 6.29% 7.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.14% 41.49% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 86 147
10th Percentile £346 £319 £329
25th Percentile £369 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £570 £586
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -2.73% +30.22%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £657 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -18.18% -5.17% +28.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £48.70 £38.94 -
25th Percentile £49.75 £39.60 -
Median hourly rate £54.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.50 -
90th Percentile £63.30 £48.25 -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £40.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year +20.00% -15.57% -13.86%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 175 282 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.79% 15.17% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 202 352
10th Percentile £300 £201 £150
25th Percentile £363 £376 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £769 £621 £613
90th Percentile £850 £674 £663
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 18
10th Percentile £17.07 £14.33 £14.08
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.93 £16.24
Median hourly rate £25.25 £26.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +38.96% +19.45%
75th Percentile £30.94 £39.70 £22.90
90th Percentile £63.30 £46.75 £28.75
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.25
% change year-on-year -45.39% +60.55% +9.84%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Manchester

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 4 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
Wigan - 4 £400 -
Bolton - 1 £480 - 2
Cheadle - 1 - -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (3.92%) Apache
1 2 (3.92%) IIS
1 2 (3.92%) nginx
1 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
1 2 (3.92%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) AWS
1 24 (47.06%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) GCP
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.84%) Mimecast
4 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.88%) IaaS
5 3 (5.88%) PaaS
5 3 (5.88%) SaaS
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Batch
7 1 (1.96%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) LAN
1 8 (15.69%) WAN
2 7 (13.73%) Ethernet
2 7 (13.73%) OSPF
2 7 (13.73%) VPN
2 7 (13.73%) Wireless
2 7 (13.73%) Wireless Security
3 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.92%) DNS
4 2 (3.92%) H.323
4 2 (3.92%) HTTP
5 1 (1.96%) Firewall
5 1 (1.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Power BI
1 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.92%) Redis
3 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.96%) Data Hub
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) GitLab
2 4 (7.84%) Hudson
3 3 (5.88%) Burp Suite
3 3 (5.88%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Git
4 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) Selenium
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) Automotive
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) German Language
7 1 (1.96%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.96%) Retail
7 1 (1.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Network Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Ethical Hacker
5 3 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Middleware
2 3 (5.88%) Kafka
3 2 (3.92%) cloud-init
3 2 (3.92%) pytest
3 2 (3.92%) Spring
3 2 (3.92%) YAML
4 1 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Cyberattack
1 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Derivative
3 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Insider Threat
3 2 (3.92%) IVR
3 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.92%) PKI
3 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) EPoS
4 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (47.06%) Windows
2 7 (13.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Unix
3 4 (7.84%) Apple iOS
3 4 (7.84%) Mac OS
3 4 (7.84%) zOS
4 3 (5.88%) Kali Linux
5 2 (3.92%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (3.92%) CentOS
5 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.96%) Debian
6 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (19.61%) Agile
3 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (15.69%) DevOps
4 8 (15.69%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.73%) Customer Service
6 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.80%) Cloud Security
7 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (9.80%) Incident Response
8 4 (7.84%) Ethical Hacking
8 4 (7.84%) ETL
8 4 (7.84%) Migration
8 4 (7.84%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (7.84%) Open Source
8 4 (7.84%) Test Strategy
9 3 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) Python
2 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.84%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (3.92%) Go
5 2 (3.92%) Java
5 2 (3.92%) Ruby
6 1 (1.96%) C
6 1 (1.96%) C++
6 1 (1.96%) Fortran
6 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) CCNA
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.80%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (7.84%) CISM
5 4 (7.84%) CISSP
6 3 (5.88%) OSCP
7 2 (3.92%) Degree
7 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.96%) MCSE
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.96%) RHCE
8 1 (1.96%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.84%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.88%) NCSC
4 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.92%) NIST
5 1 (1.96%) GDPR
5 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (15.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.88%) Docker
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Terraform
2 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.84%) Ansible
3 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
5 2 (3.92%) Consul
5 2 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (3.92%) Graphite
5 2 (3.92%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.92%) Istio
5 2 (3.92%) linkerd
5 2 (3.92%) Packer
5 2 (3.92%) Podman
5 2 (3.92%) Puppet
5 2 (3.92%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.96%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) VMware
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.84%) F5
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle
3 4 (7.84%) Sophos
4 3 (5.88%) PagerDuty
4 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.88%) Splunk
5 2 (3.92%) Avaya
5 2 (3.92%) Dell
5 2 (3.92%) IBM
5 2 (3.92%) Verint
6 1 (1.96%) Brocade
6 1 (1.96%) Citrix
6 1 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) NetApp
6 1 (1.96%) Qualys