Linux Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 368 347
Rank change year-on-year +96 -21 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 113 88 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.37% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.40% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 60 99
10th Percentile £337 £326 £360
25th Percentile £425 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +8.65% +23.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £549
90th Percentile £650 £639 £630
UK median daily rate £525 £564 £525
% change year-on-year -6.91% +7.43% +16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 19
10th Percentile £52.50 - £58.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £60.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +23 34 £500 -9.09% 11
Scotland +55 28 £550 +22.22% 4
North of England +27 19 £450 -7.69% 4
East of England +16 18 £550 +4.76% 7
South West +24 9 £550 +10.00% 12
North West +17 9 £425 +21.43% 2
Yorkshire +32 8 £613 +11.87% 2
Midlands +20 5 £500 +7.24% 4
West Midlands +16 3 £450 -15.09%
East Midlands +18 2 £500 +18.34% 4
North East +16 2 £423 -19.43%
Wales +15 1 - -
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 113 (100.00%) Linux
2 49 (43.36%) Python
3 40 (35.40%) Red Hat
4 34 (30.09%) Unix
5 31 (27.43%) Security Cleared
6 30 (26.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (26.55%) Ansible
7 27 (23.89%) Windows
8 26 (23.01%) VMware
9 24 (21.24%) Social Skills
10 23 (20.35%) Kubernetes
10 23 (20.35%) Perl
11 22 (19.47%) Bash
12 21 (18.58%) Git
13 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
13 20 (17.70%) AWS
13 20 (17.70%) Software Engineering
14 18 (15.93%) High Availability
14 18 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
15 17 (15.04%) Agile
15 17 (15.04%) Solaris
16 16 (14.16%) Windows Server
16 16 (14.16%) Platform Engineering
17 15 (13.27%) C++
18 13 (11.50%) Linux Command Line
18 13 (11.50%) Finance
18 13 (11.50%) OO
18 13 (11.50%) Veritas
18 13 (11.50%) Computer Science
18 13 (11.50%) Azure

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.54%) Apache
1 4 (3.54%) nginx
1 4 (3.54%) SAS
2 3 (2.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) JBoss
3 1 (0.88%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.88%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.70%) AWS
2 13 (11.50%) Azure
3 8 (7.08%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.31%) IaaS
5 5 (4.42%) Datadog
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.65%) CloudFront
6 3 (2.65%) GitHub
6 3 (2.65%) Route 53
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) Fastly
7 2 (1.77%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.62%) SAN
2 10 (8.85%) DNS
3 8 (7.08%) Firewall
4 6 (5.31%) VPN
5 4 (3.54%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (3.54%) iSCSI
5 4 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.65%) DHCP
7 2 (1.77%) AMQP
7 2 (1.77%) DMZ
7 2 (1.77%) Modbus
7 2 (1.77%) MQTT
7 2 (1.77%) NAS
7 2 (1.77%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.88%) IPsec
8 1 (0.88%) LTE
8 1 (0.88%) Network Security
8 1 (0.88%) NFC
8 1 (0.88%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.31%) RDBMS
3 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.42%) MySQL
5 4 (3.54%) Big Data
5 4 (3.54%) DB2
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.77%) Tableau
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (18.58%) Git
2 12 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.19%) GitLab
4 6 (5.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.54%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.54%) JIRA
6 2 (1.77%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.77%) Subversion
7 1 (0.88%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.88%) TestRail
7 1 (0.88%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.50%) Finance
3 9 (7.96%) Banking
4 5 (4.42%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.88%) Advertising
7 1 (0.88%) Aviation
7 1 (0.88%) Electronics
7 1 (0.88%) German Language
7 1 (0.88%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.88%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) XML
2 4 (3.54%) Flash
2 4 (3.54%) POSIX
2 4 (3.54%) REST
3 3 (2.65%) JSON
3 3 (2.65%) RESTful
3 3 (2.65%) SOAP
3 3 (2.65%) Web Services
4 2 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.77%) Django
4 2 (1.77%) HornetQ
4 2 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.77%) Redfish
4 2 (1.77%) VCL
4 2 (1.77%) XSLT
4 2 (1.77%) YAML
5 1 (0.88%) Anaconda
5 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.88%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.88%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (7.96%) Clustering
3 4 (3.54%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.54%) NVMe
4 3 (2.65%) Smart Meter
4 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.77%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.77%) IoT
5 2 (1.77%) PKI
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 113 (100.00%) Linux
2 34 (30.09%) Unix
3 30 (26.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (23.89%) Windows
5 17 (15.04%) Solaris
6 16 (14.16%) Windows Server
7 11 (9.73%) VMS
8 9 (7.96%) Debian
9 7 (6.19%) Ubuntu
10 5 (4.42%) CentOS
10 5 (4.42%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (3.54%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (2.65%) SUSE
13 1 (0.88%) AIX
13 1 (0.88%) Fedora
13 1 (0.88%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.70%) Software Engineering
2 18 (15.93%) High Availability
3 17 (15.04%) Agile
4 16 (14.16%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (11.50%) Computer Science
5 13 (11.50%) OO
6 12 (10.62%) DevOps
6 12 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (9.73%) Runbook
7 11 (9.73%) Scrum
8 10 (8.85%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.85%) ITIL
8 10 (8.85%) Project Delivery
8 10 (8.85%) Visualisation
9 9 (7.96%) Data Analysis
9 9 (7.96%) Multithreading
10 8 (7.08%) Change Management
10 8 (7.08%) Containerisation
10 8 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.08%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.36%) Python
2 23 (20.35%) Perl
3 22 (19.47%) Bash
4 15 (13.27%) C++
5 12 (10.62%) C
6 11 (9.73%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.73%) SQL
7 7 (6.19%) MATLAB
8 6 (5.31%) Java
9 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.54%) C#
10 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.96%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.54%) RHCE
6 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.65%) SLA
2 2 (1.77%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 18 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (9.73%) vSphere
3 9 (7.96%) Docker
4 8 (7.08%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
6 5 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (4.42%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (3.54%) GPFS
7 4 (3.54%) Hyper-V
7 4 (3.54%) KVM
7 4 (3.54%) NFS
8 3 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.65%) VirtualBox
8 3 (2.65%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.77%) Ceph
9 2 (1.77%) Varnish
9 2 (1.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.88%) iptables
10 1 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.88%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (26.55%) Ansible
2 23 (20.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.08%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (6.19%) Packer
4 7 (6.19%) vRealize
5 6 (5.31%) Grafana
6 5 (4.42%) Terraform
7 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.54%) Rancher
7 4 (3.54%) SCOM
7 4 (3.54%) SELinux
7 4 (3.54%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (2.65%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.77%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.77%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.77%) Pacemaker
9 2 (1.77%) Podman
9 2 (1.77%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 40 (35.40%) Red Hat
2 26 (23.01%) VMware
3 13 (11.50%) Veritas
4 11 (9.73%) Oracle
5 9 (7.96%) IBM
6 6 (5.31%) Dell
6 6 (5.31%) HP
7 5 (4.42%) Arqiva
7 5 (4.42%) Google
7 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
8 4 (3.54%) Brocade
8 4 (3.54%) EMC
8 4 (3.54%) NetApp
8 4 (3.54%) Sybase
9 2 (1.77%) BMC
9 2 (1.77%) Cisco
9 2 (1.77%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.77%) Sun
10 1 (0.88%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.88%) Symantec