Linux Contracts in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 28 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 191 327 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.07% 5.73% 6.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.21% 36.37% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 243 314
10th Percentile £350 £328 £353
25th Percentile £415 £465 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +3.77% +17.78%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £634
90th Percentile £650 £700 £684
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 5
10th Percentile - £20.30 £20.49
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £24.23
Median hourly rate £48.00 £39.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -8.24% -3.41%
75th Percentile £55.88 £49.08 £48.56
90th Percentile £65.00 £52.13 £51.68
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 702 899 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.96% 15.75% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 638 962
10th Percentile £165 £167 £150
25th Percentile £275 £256 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +13.10% +12.00%
75th Percentile £523 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £688 £638
England median daily rate £467 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.98% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 59 76
10th Percentile - £13.80 £12.26
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.61 £14.88
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.50 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +50.83% +8.26%
75th Percentile £19.81 £43.75 £20.25
90th Percentile £34.53 £49.52 £41.85
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.80%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Yorkshire +14 109 £493 -10.45% 56
North West -41 69 £450 -18.18% 85
North East -3 13 £550 -18.52% 11
Linux
England

Linux
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 9 (4.71%) nginx
2 4 (2.09%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.57%) Apache
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.57%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.05%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.05%) Traefik
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.80%) AWS
2 46 (24.08%) Azure
3 22 (11.52%) GCP
3 22 (11.52%) GitHub
4 12 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.14%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.09%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (2.09%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.09%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.09%) PaaS
10 4 (2.09%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.09%) Route 53
11 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.85%) LAN
1 15 (7.85%) VLAN
1 15 (7.85%) WAN
2 13 (6.81%) Wireless
3 12 (6.28%) Firewall
4 11 (5.76%) VPN
5 7 (3.66%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.66%) OSPF
5 7 (3.66%) Wireless Security
6 6 (3.14%) SAN
6 6 (3.14%) SSL
7 4 (2.09%) 5G
7 4 (2.09%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (2.09%) DNS
7 4 (2.09%) LTE
7 4 (2.09%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.57%) AMQP
8 3 (1.57%) MQTT
9 2 (1.05%) DMZ
9 2 (1.05%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.71%) MySQL
4 7 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.66%) Ingres
5 5 (2.62%) Big Data
5 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.09%) Power BI
7 3 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.57%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.05%) Data Hub
8 2 (1.05%) DB2
8 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.05%) Redis
8 2 (1.05%) Tableau
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (17.80%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.52%) GitLab
3 7 (3.66%) Burp Suite
3 7 (3.66%) JIRA
4 5 (2.62%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.09%) AppScan
5 4 (2.09%) Git
5 4 (2.09%) Hudson
6 2 (1.05%) Mockito
6 2 (1.05%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
General
1 60 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.57%) Finance
4 16 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.14%) Banking
6 5 (2.62%) Legal
7 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.57%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) German Language
9 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.52%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.52%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (9.95%) Linux Engineer
3 16 (8.38%) Storage Manager
4 13 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (6.81%) Lead
5 12 (6.28%) DBA
6 10 (5.24%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (4.19%) Network Engineer
7 8 (4.19%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Architect
8 7 (3.66%) Data Protection Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Site Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) Developer
10 5 (2.62%) Ingres DBA
10 5 (2.62%) Penetration Tester
10 5 (2.62%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.42%) YAML
2 16 (8.38%) Kafka
3 10 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.71%) JSON
5 8 (4.19%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (4.19%) Middleware
6 5 (2.62%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (2.62%) Web Services
6 5 (2.62%) XML
6 5 (2.62%) XSLT
7 4 (2.09%) Keycloak
7 4 (2.09%) Spring
8 3 (1.57%) Apache Beam
9 2 (1.05%) cloud-init
9 2 (1.05%) JAX-RS
9 2 (1.05%) pytest
9 2 (1.05%) Redfish
9 2 (1.05%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.52%) Data Centre
1 22 (11.52%) Replication
2 12 (6.28%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.14%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.14%) Operational Technology
4 5 (2.62%) PKI
5 4 (2.09%) Clustering
5 4 (2.09%) Cyberattack
5 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.57%) EPoS
6 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.05%) Derivative
7 2 (1.05%) IoT
7 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 81 (42.41%) Windows
2 33 (17.28%) Unix
3 25 (13.09%) zOS
4 15 (7.85%) Windows Server
5 14 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (5.76%) CentOS
7 6 (3.14%) Mac OS
7 6 (3.14%) Ubuntu
8 4 (2.09%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.09%) Debian
8 4 (2.09%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.09%) VMS
9 3 (1.57%) Kali Linux
10 2 (1.05%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (1.05%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.52%) Fedora
11 1 (0.52%) Rocky
11 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.99%) DevOps
2 40 (20.94%) Agile
3 35 (18.32%) CI/CD
4 24 (12.57%) Change Management
5 21 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (10.47%) Migration
7 19 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (9.42%) Problem Management
8 18 (9.42%) Project Management
8 18 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (9.42%) Storage Management
9 17 (8.90%) Data Protection
10 15 (7.85%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (7.85%) Service Delivery
11 14 (7.33%) Penetration Testing
11 14 (7.33%) Software Testing
12 13 (6.81%) Cost Management
13 12 (6.28%) Containerisation
13 12 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.89%) Python
2 24 (12.57%) Bash
3 18 (9.42%) JCL
4 15 (7.85%) REXX
5 13 (6.81%) Java
5 13 (6.81%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.76%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.19%) C++
7 8 (4.19%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.66%) Ruby
8 7 (3.66%) SQL
9 6 (3.14%) Go
10 4 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.57%) Groovy
11 3 (1.57%) Scala
12 2 (1.05%) C
13 1 (0.52%) Fortran
13 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (19.37%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.71%) Degree
3 9 (4.71%) OSCP
4 8 (4.19%) CCNA
4 8 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.14%) CEH
5 6 (3.14%) CREST Certified
5 6 (3.14%) GIAC
5 6 (3.14%) GPEN
6 5 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.09%) CISM
7 4 (2.09%) CISSP
7 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) NIST
2 6 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.09%) QA
4 3 (1.57%) NCSC
5 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (12.04%) Docker
2 19 (9.95%) NFS
3 18 (9.42%) Time Sharing Option
4 14 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (6.81%) Active Directory
6 8 (4.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.05%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (30.89%) Ansible
2 38 (19.90%) Terraform
3 29 (15.18%) Puppet
4 22 (11.52%) Kubernetes
5 21 (10.99%) Grafana
6 19 (9.95%) Prometheus
7 18 (9.42%) NetBackup
7 18 (9.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 7 (3.66%) Packer
8 7 (3.66%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.62%) Graylog
9 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.09%) HP Fortify
10 4 (2.09%) Istio
10 4 (2.09%) Nessus
10 4 (2.09%) Rancher
10 4 (2.09%) WebInspect
10 4 (2.09%) yum
11 3 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (14.14%) IBM
2 24 (12.57%) VMware
3 20 (10.47%) Dell
4 19 (9.95%) Brocade
4 19 (9.95%) Oracle
5 18 (9.42%) Broadcom
5 18 (9.42%) CA
6 16 (8.38%) Veritas
7 15 (7.85%) Microsoft
8 10 (5.24%) Splunk
9 6 (3.14%) PagerDuty
9 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.14%) Solace
10 5 (2.62%) F5
10 5 (2.62%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.09%) Checkmarx
11 4 (2.09%) Sophos
11 4 (2.09%) Veracode
12 2 (1.05%) Cisco
12 2 (1.05%) Databricks