Linux Contracts in Oxfordshire

Linux
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 27 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.78% 10.80% 7.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.55% 34.18% 28.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £296 £170 £142
25th Percentile £419 £400 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £200
Median % change year-on-year - +150.00% -42.86%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £613
90th Percentile £550 - £825
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £46.63 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £48.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £49.69 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £49.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -4.62% +22.91% +13.73%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 44 79 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 19.56% 31.60% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 48 50
10th Percentile £128 £193 £145
25th Percentile £143 £300 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £190
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +110.53% -41.54%
75th Percentile £456 £506 £344
90th Percentile £538 £575 £579
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £16.10 - £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £18.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -9.60% -39.27%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £34.38
90th Percentile £49.50 £36.93 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £53.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.38% +165.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -2 5 £500 +2.56% 11
Banbury - 2 £525 -
Abingdon -4 1 - -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) InfiniBand
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
1 2 (15.38%) Wireless
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Administrator
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Senior
1 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) IT Support
2 1 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) EDI
2 1 (7.69%) Django
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (15.38%) CCTV
2 2 (15.38%) Grid Computing
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Android
3 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
3 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris
4 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Coaching
2 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
2 2 (15.38%) People Management
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) ITSM
3 1 (7.69%) Microservices
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum
3 1 (7.69%) Service Management
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Perl
2 1 (7.69%) PHP
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) HNC
3 1 (7.69%) RHCE
3 1 (7.69%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
1 2 (15.38%) NFS
1 2 (15.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) PaperCut
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) CFEngine
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Aruba
4 2 (15.38%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (15.38%) Sage
4 2 (15.38%) Veeam
4 2 (15.38%) WatchGuard
5 1 (7.69%) Dell