Linux Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Linux Engineer
England > North of England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 192 212
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 19 21 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.39% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 20
10th Percentile £289 £317 £363
25th Percentile £400 £325 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £555
90th Percentile £619 £614 £655
England median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,340 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,710 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £383 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 155 280
10th Percentile £11.04 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £61.64 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
North West +16 9 £425 +21.43% 2
Yorkshire +31 8 £613 +11.87% 2
North East +15 2 £423 -19.43%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 7 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 North of England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) SAN
5 4 (21.05%) Firewall
5 4 (21.05%) VMS
5 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 4 (21.05%) Big Data
5 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
6 3 (15.79%) AWS
6 3 (15.79%) SQL
6 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
6 3 (15.79%) Python
7 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.53%) DMZ
7 2 (10.53%) Security Management
7 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
7 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (10.53%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) XML
7 2 (10.53%) XSLT
7 2 (10.53%) ITIL
7 2 (10.53%) Unix
7 2 (10.53%) VPN
7 2 (10.53%) Apache
7 2 (10.53%) CentOS
7 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) nginx
2 1 (5.26%) JBoss
2 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) Firewall
3 2 (10.53%) AMQP
3 2 (10.53%) DMZ
3 2 (10.53%) Modbus
3 2 (10.53%) MQTT
3 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 1 (5.26%) DNS
4 1 (5.26%) LAN
4 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) German Language
3 1 (5.26%) Italian Language
3 1 (5.26%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
1 2 (10.53%) XML
1 2 (10.53%) XSLT
2 1 (5.26%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (21.05%) VMS
5 2 (10.53%) CentOS
5 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Unix
6 1 (5.26%) Debian
6 1 (5.26%) Fedora
6 1 (5.26%) Rocky
6 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Migration
2 2 (10.53%) CRUD
2 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
2 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (10.53%) High Availability
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
2 2 (10.53%) Release Management
2 2 (10.53%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) Security Management
2 2 (10.53%) Server Building
2 2 (10.53%) Use Case
2 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
3 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (5.26%) Low Latency
3 1 (5.26%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Graylog
2 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
2 1 (5.26%) Proxmox
2 1 (5.26%) Rsyslog
2 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Temenos