Alpine Linux Contracts

Alpine Linux
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Alpine Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Alpine Linux over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 704 843
Rank change year-on-year +111 +139 -165
Contract jobs citing Alpine Linux 5 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.013% 0.011%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.086% 0.082% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £463 - £369
25th Percentile £475 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £531 - £619
90th Percentile - - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Operating Systems
UK

Alpine 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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,818 9,701 13,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 16.30% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,920 6,821 9,091
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +0.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +7.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 419 631
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £39.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.59% +73.33% +25.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +50.00% +21.21%

Alpine Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Alpine Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Alpine Linux in the UK

Alpine Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Alpine Linux.

Daily rate trend for Alpine Linux in the UK

Alpine Linux
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alpine Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +129 5 £500 - 1
UK excluding London +41 2 £513 -
North of England - 2 £513 -
Work from Home - 2 £500 -
North West - 2 £513 -
London - 1 £460 -

Alpine Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) pytest
1 4 (80.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) Prometheus