Linux Contracts in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 30 26
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing Linux 191 296 451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.94% 5.42% 6.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.02% 33.75% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 216 323
10th Percentile £355 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £633
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 6
10th Percentile £21.25 £15.75 £19.89
25th Percentile £47.25 £19.00 £21.78
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £25.43
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% +4.23% -32.20%
75th Percentile £60.56 £39.60 £48.79
90th Percentile £66.56 £52.13 £55.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 707 877 1,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.58% 16.07% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 608 988
10th Percentile £165 £169 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 63 75
10th Percentile - £13.16 £12.68
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £15.59
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +25.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £18.97 £41.49 £23.10
90th Percentile £48.00 £48.60 £73.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £43.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +104.33% +22.86%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +5 106 £500 -9.09% 37
North West -36 71 £475 -7.59% 91
North East 0 14 £575 +6.98% 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 7 (3.66%) Confluence
3 4 (2.09%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.57%) Apache
4 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.57%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (26.70%) AWS
2 46 (24.08%) Azure
3 22 (11.52%) GCP
4 16 (8.38%) GitHub
5 12 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.62%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (2.62%) PaaS
8 5 (2.62%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.09%) AWS KMS
9 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.09%) IaaS
9 4 (2.09%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.85%) VLAN
2 14 (7.33%) LAN
2 14 (7.33%) WAN
3 13 (6.81%) Firewall
3 13 (6.81%) Wireless
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%) LTE
8 3 (1.57%) DNS
9 2 (1.05%) AMQP
9 2 (1.05%) IPv4
9 2 (1.05%) MQTT
9 2 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.95%) MongoDB
2 15 (7.85%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.24%) MySQL
4 7 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.66%) Ingres
5 6 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.62%) Big Data
6 5 (2.62%) DB2
6 5 (2.62%) Power BI
7 3 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.57%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.57%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.57%) Data Hub
7 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.05%) Redis
9 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 31 (16.23%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.04%) GitLab
3 10 (5.24%) JIRA
4 7 (3.66%) Burp Suite
5 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.62%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.09%) AppScan
7 4 (2.09%) Git
7 4 (2.09%) Hudson
8 3 (1.57%) Mockito
9 2 (1.05%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.05%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.05%) Maven
9 2 (1.05%) Selenium
9 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.52%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.52%) Postman
General
1 55 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.66%) Finance
4 14 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.66%) Banking
6 5 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Legal
8 3 (1.57%) Retail
9 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Avionics
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 23 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (8.38%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (7.33%) Lead
4 12 (6.28%) DBA
5 10 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (5.24%) Storage Manager
6 9 (4.71%) Developer
6 9 (4.71%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (4.19%) Network Engineer
7 8 (4.19%) Site Engineer
7 8 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Architect
8 7 (3.66%) Data Protection Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) Consultant
10 5 (2.62%) Ingres DBA
10 5 (2.62%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.62%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.47%) Kafka
2 13 (6.81%) YAML
3 11 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.71%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (4.71%) JSON
5 8 (4.19%) Middleware
6 6 (3.14%) Spring
7 5 (2.62%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (2.09%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.09%) Web Services
8 4 (2.09%) XML
8 4 (2.09%) XSLT
9 3 (1.57%) Apache Beam
9 3 (1.57%) JAX-RS
10 2 (1.05%) Node.js
10 2 (1.05%) OAuth
10 2 (1.05%) pytest
10 2 (1.05%) REST
10 2 (1.05%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.52%) Replication
2 16 (8.38%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.76%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.19%) Cyberattack
5 7 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.14%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.14%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.09%) Clustering
7 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.57%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.57%) Derivative
8 3 (1.57%) EPoS
8 3 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.57%) PKI
8 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (41.36%) Windows
2 40 (20.94%) Unix
3 20 (10.47%) zOS
4 14 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.81%) Windows Server
6 9 (4.71%) CentOS
7 7 (3.66%) Mac OS
8 6 (3.14%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.09%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.09%) Debian
9 4 (2.09%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (2.09%) VMS
10 3 (1.57%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.57%) Mac OS X
11 2 (1.05%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.52%) Fedora
12 1 (0.52%) Rocky
12 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.04%) DevOps
2 37 (19.37%) Agile
3 33 (17.28%) CI/CD
4 27 (14.14%) Change Management
5 20 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (9.95%) Migration
6 19 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (8.38%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (7.85%) Data Protection
9 15 (7.85%) Service Delivery
10 14 (7.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (7.33%) Penetration Testing
11 13 (6.81%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (6.81%) Problem Management
12 12 (6.28%) Project Management
12 12 (6.28%) Storage Management
13 11 (5.76%) Configuration Management
13 11 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.23%) Python
2 22 (11.52%) Bash
3 17 (8.90%) Java
4 13 (6.81%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.81%) SQL
5 12 (6.28%) JCL
6 11 (5.76%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.24%) REXX
8 9 (4.71%) C++
8 9 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.62%) Go
9 5 (2.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.09%) C
10 4 (2.09%) Groovy
10 4 (2.09%) Ruby
11 3 (1.57%) Scala
12 1 (0.52%) Fortran
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.28%) Degree
4 9 (4.71%) CCNA
4 9 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (4.71%) OSCP
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%) MCSE
9 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) RHCE
10 1 (0.52%) SSCP
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 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 32 (16.75%) Docker
2 13 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.81%) NFS
2 13 (6.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.28%) Time Sharing Option
4 8 (4.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.05%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 59 (30.89%) Ansible
2 40 (20.94%) Terraform
3 29 (15.18%) Puppet
4 27 (14.14%) Kubernetes
5 22 (11.52%) Prometheus
6 20 (10.47%) Grafana
7 17 (8.90%) NetBackup
8 12 (6.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 9 (4.71%) Progress Chef
10 6 (3.14%) Packer
11 5 (2.62%) Graylog
11 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.62%) yum
12 4 (2.09%) HP Fortify
12 4 (2.09%) Istio
12 4 (2.09%) Kiali
12 4 (2.09%) Nessus
12 4 (2.09%) Rancher
12 4 (2.09%) WebInspect
13 2 (1.05%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (12.04%) IBM
1 23 (12.04%) VMware
2 22 (11.52%) Oracle
3 16 (8.38%) Veritas
4 15 (7.85%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.33%) Dell
6 12 (6.28%) Broadcom
6 12 (6.28%) Brocade
6 12 (6.28%) CA
6 12 (6.28%) Splunk
7 7 (3.66%) PagerDuty
8 6 (3.14%) F5
8 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.14%) Solace
9 4 (2.09%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.09%) Checkmarx
9 4 (2.09%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.09%) Sophos
9 4 (2.09%) Tanium
9 4 (2.09%) Veracode