Linux Contracts in the South East

Linux
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 21 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Linux 403 469 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.30% 8.24% 7.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.29% 40.02% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 315 348
10th Percentile £354 £325 £371
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £539
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.62% +16.49%
75th Percentile £599 £619 £638
90th Percentile £638 £694 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 22
10th Percentile £32.00 £49.25 £23.45
25th Percentile £48.13 £53.31 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.39
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +29.01% +3.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.89
90th Percentile £74.00 - £83.98
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +20.42%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 976 1,172 1,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.68% 20.59% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 794 960
10th Percentile £200 £197 £155
25th Percentile £281 £250 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +4.36% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 74 105
10th Percentile £15.96 £17.73 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +176.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.13 £75.00 £60.79
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.87%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire -2 163 £545 -0.91% 60
Thames Valley -9 142 £535 +7.00% 95
Berkshire -11 97 £590 +18.00% 58
Surrey +4 45 £450 -25.00% 37
Buckinghamshire +19 33 £511 -0.29% 12
West Sussex +13 32 £475 +55.74% 12
Oxfordshire -4 12 £500 +2.56% 25
East Sussex +8 8 £538 +10.26% 5
Middlesex - 3 £275 -
Sussex - 2 £550 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 31 (7.69%) Confluence
2 27 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.73%) Apache
4 4 (0.99%) NetWeaver
4 4 (0.99%) nginx
4 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) Jadu
6 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.99%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.50%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (25.56%) Azure
2 56 (13.90%) AWS
3 33 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (5.21%) Entra ID
6 19 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (3.97%) Azure Storage
8 14 (3.47%) OCI
9 10 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (2.48%) GitHub
10 7 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.74%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.74%) IaaS
11 6 (1.49%) PaaS
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.24%) CloudFront
12 5 (1.24%) Datadog
12 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.99%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 67 (16.63%) SAN
2 64 (15.88%) DNS
3 53 (13.15%) Firewall
4 52 (12.90%) DHCP
5 31 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 20 (4.96%) Software-Defined Radio
7 18 (4.47%) SNMP
7 18 (4.47%) SSL
7 18 (4.47%) Wireless
8 14 (3.47%) WAN
9 10 (2.48%) VLAN
9 10 (2.48%) VPN
10 9 (2.23%) iSCSI
11 8 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (1.99%) NAS
11 8 (1.99%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.74%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (1.24%) Network Security
13 5 (1.24%) OpenLDAP
14 4 (0.99%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.71%) MySQL
1 23 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.98%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.73%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.48%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.99%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.24%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.24%) Power BI
9 5 (1.24%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.99%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.50%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 56 (13.90%) Git
2 34 (8.44%) JIRA
3 30 (7.44%) Bitbucket
4 23 (5.71%) Robot Framework
5 22 (5.46%) GitLab
6 20 (4.96%) Eclipse
7 18 (4.47%) GoogleTest
8 10 (2.48%) Jenkins
9 8 (1.99%) Selenium
10 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.99%) TestRail
13 3 (0.74%) ClearCase
13 3 (0.74%) ClearQuest
13 3 (0.74%) Hudson
13 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.50%) JMeter
14 2 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
14 2 (0.50%) Subversion
15 1 (0.25%) MagicDraw
General
1 76 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 34 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.71%) Telecoms
5 11 (2.73%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.48%) Finance
7 5 (1.24%) Automotive
7 5 (1.24%) Billing
7 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.24%) Electronics
7 5 (1.24%) Marketing
8 4 (0.99%) Front Office
8 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Back Office
9 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Banking
10 1 (0.25%) Legal
10 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (13.90%) Developer
2 50 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (9.68%) Senior
4 35 (8.68%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.44%) Linux Engineer
6 28 (6.95%) Analyst
7 23 (5.71%) Architect
8 19 (4.71%) C++ Software Engineer
9 18 (4.47%) Administrator
9 18 (4.47%) Python Developer
10 16 (3.97%) Active Directory Support
11 15 (3.72%) Consultant
12 14 (3.47%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (3.47%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.47%) Support Specialist
12 14 (3.47%) Systems Administrator
13 13 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
13 13 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.71%) HTML
2 21 (5.21%) CSS
3 16 (3.97%) ARM Templates
3 16 (3.97%) Flash
4 13 (3.23%) Web Services
5 11 (2.73%) RESTful
5 11 (2.73%) XML
6 8 (1.99%) .NET
6 8 (1.99%) ADO
6 8 (1.99%) REST
7 7 (1.74%) Django
7 7 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.74%) SOAP
8 6 (1.49%) LAMP
8 6 (1.49%) LDAP
9 5 (1.24%) JSON
9 5 (1.24%) Node.js
10 4 (0.99%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.99%) Kafka
10 4 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.93%) PKI
2 28 (6.95%) Data Centre
3 24 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (4.96%) Client/Server
6 13 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.73%) CCTV
8 8 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.74%) Clustering
9 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.74%) Smart Meter
10 6 (1.49%) Replication
11 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.99%) Fat Client
12 4 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.99%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 200 (49.63%) Windows
2 81 (20.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 77 (19.11%) Windows Server
4 61 (15.14%) Unix
5 44 (10.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (9.18%) Ubuntu
7 36 (8.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (5.46%) Debian
9 20 (4.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (4.22%) Windows 10
11 14 (3.47%) Windows XP
12 13 (3.23%) AIX
12 13 (3.23%) Solaris
12 13 (3.23%) VMS
13 8 (1.99%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.99%) Android
15 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (29.78%) Agile
2 76 (18.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 66 (16.38%) Scrum
4 65 (16.13%) ITIL
4 65 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 60 (14.89%) DevOps
6 51 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (8.19%) Release Management
9 32 (7.94%) CI/CD
9 32 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (7.94%) Performance Tuning
10 29 (7.20%) Prototyping
11 28 (6.95%) Test Automation
12 26 (6.45%) Application Packaging
12 26 (6.45%) Computer Science
13 25 (6.20%) Analytics
13 25 (6.20%) Storage Management
14 24 (5.96%) RBAC
15 23 (5.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.34%) Python
2 74 (18.36%) PowerShell
3 53 (13.15%) C++
4 42 (10.42%) SQL
5 40 (9.93%) Bash
6 39 (9.68%) C#
7 36 (8.93%) VBScript
8 30 (7.44%) JavaScript
9 28 (6.95%) Shell Script
10 24 (5.96%) C
11 21 (5.21%) Java
12 16 (3.97%) Bicep
12 16 (3.97%) VB
13 9 (2.23%) Perl
14 8 (1.99%) ProC
15 7 (1.74%) Go
15 7 (1.74%) PHP
16 6 (1.49%) PL/SQL
16 6 (1.49%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 205 (50.87%) Security Cleared
2 133 (33.00%) SC Cleared
3 90 (22.33%) Degree
4 85 (21.09%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (4.71%) CCNA
7 16 (3.97%) CCNP
7 16 (3.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.48%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.24%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.99%) HNC
12 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.99%) MCSE
12 4 (0.99%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.23%) ISO 9001
2 11 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.48%) QA
4 8 (1.99%) GDPR
4 8 (1.99%) SLA
5 5 (1.24%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) COBIT
7 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 94 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 84 (20.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (8.68%) vSphere
4 32 (7.94%) Hyper-V
5 30 (7.44%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (5.21%) Firmware
8 16 (3.97%) Docker
8 16 (3.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.48%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.49%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.99%) KVM
11 4 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.50%) Ceph
13 2 (0.50%) NFS
13 2 (0.50%) Varnish
13 2 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.50%) XenApp
14 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 61 (15.14%) Ansible
2 53 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 53 (13.15%) SCCM
3 39 (9.68%) WSUS
4 34 (8.44%) SCOM
5 28 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (5.46%) Terraform
7 21 (5.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (4.71%) NetBackup
8 19 (4.71%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.97%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (3.47%) Red Hat Satellite
11 9 (2.23%) Packer
11 9 (2.23%) vRealize
12 6 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (1.24%) IBM BigFix
13 5 (1.24%) Nessus
13 5 (1.24%) Rancher
13 5 (1.24%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (31.27%) VMware
2 100 (24.81%) Microsoft
3 65 (16.13%) Red Hat
4 59 (14.64%) Oracle
5 34 (8.44%) Cisco
6 26 (6.45%) HP
7 22 (5.46%) Veeam
8 21 (5.21%) Dell
9 20 (4.96%) Google
10 19 (4.71%) 3PAR
10 19 (4.71%) EMC
11 18 (4.47%) Juniper
12 17 (4.22%) IBM
12 17 (4.22%) Symantec
13 16 (3.97%) Atlassian
13 16 (3.97%) SolarWinds
14 15 (3.72%) Palo Alto
15 14 (3.47%) Extreme Networks
16 13 (3.23%) ArcSight
16 13 (3.23%) Brocade