Linux Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £290 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 448 497
Rank change year-on-year +71 +49 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 11 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.021% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.023% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £235 - £295
25th Percentile £235 - £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £340 - £416
90th Percentile - - £440
UK median daily rate £340 £675 £438
% change year-on-year -49.63% +54.29% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50

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 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £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 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Linux Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Support 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 Support Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland - 5 £340 - 2
East of England - 3 £240 -
Yorkshire - 2 £238 -
North of England - 2 £238 - 1
South East +18 1 - -
Linux Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) High Availability
2 10 (90.91%) Clustering
3 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
3 6 (54.55%) VMware
3 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Release Management
4 5 (45.45%) VPN
4 5 (45.45%) ITIL
4 5 (45.45%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (36.36%) Solaris
5 4 (36.36%) RHCE
5 4 (36.36%) KVM
5 4 (36.36%) Compliance Management
5 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 4 (36.36%) SLA
5 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
6 2 (18.18%) Server Management
7 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
7 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (9.09%) Task Automation

Linux Support 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) IaaS
1 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 4 (36.36%) Solaris
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) High Availability
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Release Management
3 4 (36.36%) Compliance Management
3 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Server Management
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Runbook
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
5 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (36.36%) KVM
4 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Packer
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) vRealize
1 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Arqiva
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) Veritas