Linux Engineer Contracts in the South West

Linux Engineer
England > South West

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the South West is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 167 162
Rank change year-on-year +32 -5 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 9 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.11% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.12% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 13
10th Percentile £475 - £400
25th Percentile £480 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £550
90th Percentile £615 £628 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,984 3,350 3,547
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 92.52% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,901 2,514 2,539
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £388 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 265 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.30% +8.24%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the South West

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Devon - 3 £600 - 2
Wiltshire +5 2 £600 +9.09% 2
Dorset - 2 £488 -
Gloucestershire - 2 £500 -
Linux Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 South West region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (22.22%) Unix
5 2 (22.22%) Service Management
5 2 (22.22%) SUSE
5 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
6 1 (11.11%) ITIL
6 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 1 (11.11%) Azure
6 1 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
6 1 (11.11%) Ansible
6 1 (11.11%) SELinux
6 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
6 1 (11.11%) Network Security
6 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (11.11%) Samba
6 1 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (11.11%) Firewall
6 1 (11.11%) IPsec
6 1 (11.11%) Solaris
6 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) FTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (22.22%) SUSE
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Samba
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) VMware