Linux Contracts in Northamptonshire

Linux
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 34 27
Rank change year-on-year +20 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 12 3 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.35% 1.24% 4.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 10.71% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 14
10th Percentile - - £497
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £471 - -
90th Percentile £515 - £588
East Midlands median daily rate £538 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +19.52% -10.06% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £12.50 -

All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 28 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.58% 11.62% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 59
10th Percentile £219 £141 £131
25th Percentile £348 £160 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £188 £350
Median % change year-on-year +91.09% -46.29% +64.71%
75th Percentile £494 £238 £500
90th Percentile £511 £523 £528
East Midlands median daily rate £325 £350 £325
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +7.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £12.89 £16.50
25th Percentile - £15.32 £19.88
Median hourly rate - £18.24 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.19% +40.98%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £23.13
90th Percentile - £19.65 £23.38
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £18.50
% change year-on-year -4.06% -4.22% +23.33%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Northampton +12 11 £356 - 5
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 5 (41.67%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (41.67%) RDBMS
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (41.67%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
1 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
1 5 (41.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (41.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (16.67%) Automotive
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Build Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Microservices
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Perl
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Embedded C
2 2 (16.67%) Embedded C++
2 2 (16.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Lustre
3 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Kibana
2 5 (41.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) AppDynamics
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft