Linux Contracts in the North West

Linux
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 67 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -41 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Linux 69 193 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.57% 6.18% 7.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.66% 37.55% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 135 210
10th Percentile £313 £322 £331
25th Percentile £375 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -5.17% +30.04%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £647
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 3
10th Percentile - £25.75 £42.24
25th Percentile - £34.06 £43.72
Median hourly rate £48.00 £39.80 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year +20.60% -15.99% -13.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.08 £51.16
90th Percentile £72.79 £52.13 £52.71
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 334 514 768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.42% 16.47% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 353 541
10th Percentile £172 £175 £158
25th Percentile £270 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +21.79%
75th Percentile £582 £580 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £467 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.98% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 46 37
10th Percentile - £15.37 £14.05
25th Percentile £10.95 £19.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +8.34%
75th Percentile £18.94 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £46.08 £49.52 £45.68
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North West

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the North West

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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 within the North West 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
Manchester -20 52 £450 -23.73% 52
Cheshire -26 9 £500 +0.50% 16
Lancashire -11 6 £525 -12.50% 6
Cumbria -21 2 £528 +24.09% 1
Linux
England

Linux
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 3 (4.35%) nginx
2 2 (2.90%) Apache
2 2 (2.90%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.90%) Traefik
3 1 (1.45%) IIS
3 1 (1.45%) JBoss
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.45%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.58%) AWS
1 28 (40.58%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) GCP
3 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (5.80%) Mimecast
5 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.35%) IaaS
6 3 (4.35%) PaaS
6 3 (4.35%) SaaS
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) LAN
1 8 (11.59%) WAN
2 7 (10.14%) Ethernet
2 7 (10.14%) OSPF
2 7 (10.14%) VPN
2 7 (10.14%) Wireless
2 7 (10.14%) Wireless Security
3 4 (5.80%) DNS
3 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.90%) DSL
4 2 (2.90%) Firewall
4 2 (2.90%) HTTP
4 2 (2.90%) SAN
5 1 (1.45%) H.323
5 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.45%) IPsec
5 1 (1.45%) SNMP
5 1 (1.45%) SSH
5 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Power BI
3 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.90%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.90%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.90%) DB2
4 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.90%) Redis
5 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) GitLab
1 5 (7.25%) JIRA
2 4 (5.80%) Hudson
2 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) Burp Suite
4 2 (2.90%) Git
4 2 (2.90%) Selenium
General
1 26 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.25%) Banking
6 4 (5.80%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.45%) Automotive
7 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) German Language
7 1 (1.45%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Public Speaking
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
7 1 (1.45%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Network Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Lead
5 5 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Ethical Hacker
7 3 (4.35%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) Middleware
2 3 (4.35%) Kafka
3 2 (2.90%) cloud-init
3 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.90%) pytest
3 2 (2.90%) Spring
3 2 (2.90%) YAML
4 1 (1.45%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.45%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (1.45%) LDAP
4 1 (1.45%) Lucene
4 1 (1.45%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.80%) Cyberattack
3 3 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.90%) Clustering
4 2 (2.90%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.90%) Derivative
4 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.90%) PKI
5 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.45%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 32 (46.38%) Windows
2 12 (17.39%) Unix
3 7 (10.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.70%) Mac OS
5 5 (7.25%) zOS
6 4 (5.80%) Apple iOS
7 3 (4.35%) CentOS
7 3 (4.35%) Kali Linux
7 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.90%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (2.90%) Debian
9 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.94%) DevOps
3 10 (14.49%) Agile
4 9 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 8 (11.59%) Customer Service
5 8 (11.59%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (10.14%) Incident Response
7 6 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (8.70%) ETL
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (8.70%) SDLC
7 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
8 5 (7.25%) Cloud Security
8 5 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (7.25%) Migration
8 5 (7.25%) Open Source
9 4 (5.80%) Ethical Hacking
9 4 (5.80%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 4 (5.80%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) Python
2 6 (8.70%) Bash
2 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.80%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (5.80%) Ruby
4 3 (4.35%) Java
4 3 (4.35%) SQL
5 2 (2.90%) C++
5 2 (2.90%) Go
6 1 (1.45%) C
6 1 (1.45%) Fortran
6 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) CCNA
3 7 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (5.80%) CISM
5 4 (5.80%) CISSP
5 4 (5.80%) Degree
6 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) OSCP
7 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.45%) MCSE
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.45%) RHCE
8 1 (1.45%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.80%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.35%) NCSC
4 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.90%) NIST
5 1 (1.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (11.59%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.35%) Docker
4 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Terraform
2 6 (8.70%) Ansible
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.80%) Puppet
5 3 (4.35%) Grafana
6 2 (2.90%) CFEngine
6 2 (2.90%) Consul
6 2 (2.90%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.90%) Graphite
6 2 (2.90%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.90%) Istio
6 2 (2.90%) linkerd
6 2 (2.90%) Packer
6 2 (2.90%) Podman
6 2 (2.90%) PowerBroker
6 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.90%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.45%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) VMware
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle
4 5 (7.25%) F5
4 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.80%) Sophos
6 3 (4.35%) IBM
6 3 (4.35%) PagerDuty
6 3 (4.35%) Splunk
7 2 (2.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.90%) Databricks
7 2 (2.90%) Dell
8 1 (1.45%) Avaya
8 1 (1.45%) Brocade
8 1 (1.45%) Cisco
8 1 (1.45%) Citrix
8 1 (1.45%) NetApp
8 1 (1.45%) Qualys
8 1 (1.45%) SAP
8 1 (1.45%) Temenos