Unix Linux Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unix/Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Unix/Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 444 497
Rank change year-on-year +65 +53 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Linux Engineer 14 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.029% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.031% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - £471 -
25th Percentile £481 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £385
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +36.36% +2.67%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £456
90th Percentile £559 £560 £469
UK median daily rate £538 £587 £450
% change year-on-year -8.43% +30.44% +20.00%

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 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £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 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Unix Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unix 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 Unix Linux Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +45 8 - -
East of England - 2 £550 - 3
South East - 2 - -
South West - 2 £488 -
Unix Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Unix 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 Unix Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Unix
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Perl
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) OO
3 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (35.71%) HP
4 5 (35.71%) Dell
4 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
4 5 (35.71%) VMware
4 5 (35.71%) ITIL
5 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 4 (28.57%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (28.57%) Change Management
5 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 4 (28.57%) SCOM
5 4 (28.57%) IBM
5 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Rancher
5 4 (28.57%) Ansible
5 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Server Management
6 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
6 2 (14.29%) Agile

Unix 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 1 (7.14%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
1 1 (7.14%) IPsec
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) tcpdump
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
1 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.14%) Advertising
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
1 14 (100.00%) Unix
2 4 (28.57%) Solaris
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) OO
1 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Server Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Perl
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Rancher
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (28.57%) SCOM
1 4 (28.57%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Dell
1 5 (35.71%) HP
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint