Linux Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 1,198 1,745 2,091
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.85% 7.44% 6.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.12% 38.64% 35.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 1,185 1,293
10th Percentile £340 £363 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £619
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £570
% change year-on-year -5.66% +2.28% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 131 115
10th Percentile £32.38 £27.50 £40.23
25th Percentile £50.94 £50.65 £49.01
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +26.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £75.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.65%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,227 4,516 5,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 19.25% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 3,132 3,814
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £258 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 335 454
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.27 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.66 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.74 £63.38
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the UK excluding London

Linux
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 0 397 £525 -4.55% 232
North of England -11 192 £483 -12.27% 148
South West -8 183 £600 +9.09% 170
Scotland -9 164 £575 +9.52% 52
Midlands -2 124 £545 +0.93% 121
East of England -1 112 £550 +22.22% 128
Yorkshire +13 110 £500 -9.09% 55
West Midlands -13 79 £550 +1.85% 57
North West -41 69 £450 -18.18% 85
East Midlands +33 44 £529 +17.57% 64
Wales +17 29 £575 +15.00% 12
North East -6 13 £550 -18.52% 11
Northern Ireland -4 6 £425 +6.25% 4
Linux
UK

Linux
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 83 (6.93%) Confluence
2 44 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (2.00%) Apache
4 19 (1.59%) nginx
5 17 (1.42%) CMS
6 14 (1.17%) IIS
7 10 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.75%) NetWeaver
9 8 (0.67%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.58%) JBoss
11 6 (0.50%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.50%) SAS
12 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
13 4 (0.33%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.33%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
15 2 (0.17%) IBM Domino
15 2 (0.17%) Traefik
15 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
15 2 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Simulink
2 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.083%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.75%) SAP IBP
2 6 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.25%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.17%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.17%) RMDS
5 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.083%) Magento
6 1 (0.083%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.083%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.083%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 211 (17.61%) Azure
2 190 (15.86%) AWS
3 62 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (4.34%) GitHub
5 44 (3.67%) OpenShift
6 41 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
7 40 (3.34%) Amazon S3
8 36 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (2.75%) GCP
11 29 (2.42%) Serverless
12 27 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (2.09%) Entra ID
14 22 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.67%) IaaS
16 19 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (1.50%) Azure Storage
18 17 (1.42%) OCI
19 16 (1.34%) PaaS
20 12 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (10.43%) Firewall
2 115 (9.60%) SAN
3 104 (8.68%) DNS
4 88 (7.35%) TCP/IP
5 70 (5.84%) DHCP
6 54 (4.51%) WAN
7 40 (3.34%) VPN
8 38 (3.17%) LAN
9 35 (2.92%) Wireless
10 31 (2.59%) Network Security
11 30 (2.50%) SSL
12 28 (2.34%) VLAN
13 27 (2.25%) Fibre Channel
14 21 (1.75%) SNMP
15 20 (1.67%) Software-Defined Radio
16 19 (1.59%) Ethernet
17 18 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
17 18 (1.50%) VSAN
18 17 (1.42%) iSCSI
18 17 (1.42%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.92%) MySQL
2 53 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 47 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 38 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.09%) Oracle Database
8 24 (2.00%) Big Data
9 22 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.59%) RDBMS
11 11 (0.92%) InfluxDB
11 11 (0.92%) SAP HANA
12 10 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (0.83%) Power BI
13 9 (0.75%) MariaDB
13 9 (0.75%) SAP BW
14 8 (0.67%) DB2
14 8 (0.67%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.58%) Ingres
16 6 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 121 (10.10%) JIRA
2 120 (10.02%) Jenkins
3 105 (8.76%) Git
4 68 (5.68%) GitLab
5 60 (5.01%) Bitbucket
6 32 (2.67%) Eclipse
7 24 (2.00%) GoogleTest
7 24 (2.00%) Robot Framework
8 23 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 19 (1.59%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.50%) Artifactory
11 16 (1.34%) Selenium
12 14 (1.17%) Gradle
12 14 (1.17%) Maven
13 12 (1.00%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.92%) Subversion
15 9 (0.75%) Burp Suite
15 9 (0.75%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.75%) Postman
15 9 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 272 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 119 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
3 93 (7.76%) Public Sector
4 83 (6.93%) Finance
5 43 (3.59%) Aerospace
6 39 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 32 (2.67%) Banking
8 28 (2.34%) Legal
9 21 (1.75%) Electronics
10 19 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.25%) Military
13 11 (0.92%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.83%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.83%) Marketing
15 9 (0.75%) Automotive
16 8 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.58%) Multimedia
17 7 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (11.77%) Developer
2 116 (9.68%) Linux Engineer
3 113 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 113 (9.43%) Software Engineer
4 88 (7.35%) Senior
5 82 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 67 (5.59%) Analyst
7 51 (4.26%) Architect
8 49 (4.09%) Administrator
9 45 (3.76%) Support Engineer
10 43 (3.59%) C++ Software Engineer
10 43 (3.59%) Storage Engineer
11 37 (3.09%) Embedded Engineer
12 36 (3.01%) Consultant
12 36 (3.01%) DBA
13 34 (2.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 33 (2.75%) Python Developer
15 32 (2.67%) Network Engineer
16 31 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
17 30 (2.50%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
2 41 (3.42%) Web Services
3 40 (3.34%) .NET
4 30 (2.50%) YAML
5 28 (2.34%) Middleware
5 28 (2.34%) REST
6 25 (2.09%) .NET Core
7 24 (2.00%) Kafka
8 23 (1.92%) HTML
9 22 (1.84%) CSS
9 22 (1.84%) Flash
10 21 (1.75%) JSON
11 20 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (1.42%) Node.js
13 16 (1.34%) ARM Templates
13 16 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (1.25%) React
14 15 (1.25%) XML
14 15 (1.25%) Yocto
15 14 (1.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.93%) Data Centre
2 71 (5.93%) Linux Command Line
3 68 (5.68%) PKI
4 41 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.34%) Replication
6 38 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 34 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 26 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
11 21 (1.75%) Clustering
11 21 (1.75%) Cyberattack
12 18 (1.50%) ARM Cortex
13 16 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
14 15 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
14 15 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 14 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 13 (1.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 505 (42.15%) Windows
2 186 (15.53%) Unix
3 177 (14.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 144 (12.02%) Windows Server
5 85 (7.10%) Ubuntu
6 52 (4.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 51 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 40 (3.34%) Debian
9 36 (3.01%) Solaris
10 32 (2.67%) CentOS
11 31 (2.59%) AIX
12 29 (2.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 28 (2.34%) zOS
14 21 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
15 20 (1.67%) Windows 10
16 19 (1.59%) Android
16 19 (1.59%) VMS
17 18 (1.50%) Apple iOS
17 18 (1.50%) FreeRTOS
18 14 (1.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (23.96%) Agile
2 203 (16.94%) DevOps
3 193 (16.11%) CI/CD
4 177 (14.77%) Software Engineering
5 151 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 148 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (10.35%) ITIL
8 111 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
9 109 (9.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 104 (8.68%) Configuration Management
11 92 (7.68%) Scrum
12 91 (7.60%) Continuous Integration
13 90 (7.51%) Migration
14 77 (6.43%) OO
15 70 (5.84%) SIEM
16 68 (5.68%) Change Management
17 65 (5.43%) Performance Tuning
18 63 (5.26%) Project Management
19 62 (5.18%) Task Automation
19 62 (5.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 311 (25.96%) Python
2 149 (12.44%) PowerShell
3 124 (10.35%) Bash
4 114 (9.52%) C++
5 106 (8.85%) Java
6 103 (8.60%) C
7 89 (7.43%) SQL
8 66 (5.51%) C#
8 66 (5.51%) JavaScript
8 66 (5.51%) Shell Script
9 53 (4.42%) Perl
10 36 (3.01%) VBScript
11 26 (2.17%) Embedded C
12 23 (1.92%) Go
13 22 (1.84%) PHP
14 18 (1.50%) JCL
14 18 (1.50%) Scala
15 17 (1.42%) Bicep
16 16 (1.34%) VB
17 15 (1.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 515 (42.99%) Security Cleared
2 313 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 203 (16.94%) DV Cleared
4 129 (10.77%) Degree
5 29 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (2.25%) CCNA
7 20 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.34%) CCNP
9 16 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 16 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.00%) MCSE
11 11 (0.92%) RHCE
12 9 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.75%) OSCP
13 8 (0.67%) HND
13 8 (0.67%) SAP Certification
14 7 (0.58%) CEH
14 7 (0.58%) CREST Certified
14 7 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.51%) QA
2 38 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (2.84%) NIST
4 28 (2.34%) GDPR
5 16 (1.34%) SLA
6 15 (1.25%) HIPAA
7 13 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.09%) ISO 9001
8 12 (1.00%) MISRA
9 10 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.83%) ISO 9000
10 9 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.42%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.33%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.33%) NCSC
14 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 171 (14.27%) Active Directory
2 164 (13.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (8.10%) Docker
4 67 (5.59%) VMware ESXi
5 61 (5.09%) vSphere
6 58 (4.84%) Hyper-V
7 52 (4.34%) VMware NSX
8 37 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
9 35 (2.92%) Firmware
10 29 (2.42%) NFS
11 18 (1.50%) Time Sharing Option
12 17 (1.42%) KVM
13 16 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
14 10 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
15 9 (0.75%) iptables
16 7 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
17 6 (0.50%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
19 4 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
19 4 (0.33%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 225 (18.78%) Ansible
2 147 (12.27%) Kubernetes
3 121 (10.10%) Terraform
4 67 (5.59%) SCCM
5 57 (4.76%) Grafana
6 48 (4.01%) NetBackup
7 47 (3.92%) Prometheus
8 44 (3.67%) Puppet
9 40 (3.34%) WSUS
10 39 (3.26%) SCOM
11 38 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 38 (3.17%) vCenter Server
12 26 (2.17%) Kibana
13 25 (2.09%) EMC NetWorker
13 25 (2.09%) PowerCLI
14 24 (2.00%) Progress Chef
15 23 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
16 22 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 20 (1.67%) Packer
18 18 (1.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 260 (21.70%) VMware
2 208 (17.36%) Microsoft
3 148 (12.35%) Red Hat
4 109 (9.10%) Oracle
5 71 (5.93%) Dell
6 70 (5.84%) IBM
7 69 (5.76%) Atlassian
8 65 (5.43%) Cisco
8 65 (5.43%) Splunk
9 61 (5.09%) HP
10 46 (3.84%) Brocade
11 38 (3.17%) Veeam
12 37 (3.09%) Google
13 36 (3.01%) EMC
13 36 (3.01%) Veritas
14 28 (2.34%) Symantec
15 23 (1.92%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.75%) NetApp
17 19 (1.59%) Juniper
17 19 (1.59%) SAP