Linux Engineer Contracts in the North West

Linux Engineer
England > North West

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the North West is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 138 161
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 9 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.62% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.66% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 8
10th Percentile £361 £319 £354
25th Percentile £395 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £467 £506 £663
90th Percentile £526 £608 £700
England median daily rate £525 £555 £530
% change year-on-year -5.41% +4.72% +11.58%
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,627 3,049 3,869
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 94.63% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 2,194 2,839
10th Percentile £283 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 140 178
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.85% +12.47%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.00 £65.08 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the North West

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the North West

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the North West

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the North West

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Manchester +14 6 £400 -20.40% 1
Cheshire -1 2 £513 +57.69%
Cumbria - 1 £528 -
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 West region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) Middleware
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Debian
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) German Language
4 1 (11.11%) Italian Language
4 1 (11.11%) Spanish Language
4 1 (11.11%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (11.11%) Temenos T24
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) German Language
2 1 (11.11%) Italian Language
2 1 (11.11%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Debian
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
1 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
1 1 (11.11%) Low Latency
1 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
1 1 (11.11%) Runbook
1 1 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Temenos