Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 692 826
Rank change year-on-year +122 +134 -158
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 28 27 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.045% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.048% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 20
10th Percentile £360 £325 £385
25th Percentile £421 £415 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +2.63% +2.15%
75th Percentile £591 £553 £541
90th Percentile £685 £588 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £568 £512 £450
% change year-on-year +10.79% +13.83% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
UK excluding London +63 17 £568 +10.79% 9
England +120 16 £525 +7.69% 8
Work from Home +136 14 £525 +10.53% 4
Scotland +42 11 £517 - 2
London +106 10 £500 +11.11% 1
North of England +28 2 £505 +1.00%
South West +23 2 £600 -7.69% 3
West Midlands +30 1 - -
Midlands +21 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +19 1 £505 -
North West +12 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £535 - 1

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (60.71%) Python
4 14 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (42.86%) Perl
5 12 (42.86%) Red Hat
6 11 (39.29%) Finance
7 10 (35.71%) AWS
8 9 (32.14%) DevOps
8 9 (32.14%) Windows
8 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
9 8 (28.57%) Unix
9 8 (28.57%) Banking
9 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
9 8 (28.57%) Ansible
9 8 (28.57%) Docker
10 7 (25.00%) High Availability
10 7 (25.00%) Puppet
10 7 (25.00%) Azure
10 7 (25.00%) Windows Server
11 6 (21.43%) Git
11 6 (21.43%) Investment Banking
12 5 (17.86%) VMware
12 5 (17.86%) Agile
12 5 (17.86%) Java
12 5 (17.86%) DNS
12 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
12 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
12 5 (17.86%) IaaS

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) SAS
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
2 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) IaaS
4 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) Cloudflare
5 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
2 4 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 4 (14.29%) SAN
3 3 (10.71%) SMTP
4 2 (7.14%) DHCP
5 1 (3.57%) Firewall
5 1 (3.57%) HTTP
5 1 (3.57%) LAN
5 1 (3.57%) SSL
5 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Banking
4 6 (21.43%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Flash
1 4 (14.29%) POSIX
2 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.57%) Redfish
2 1 (3.57%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 4 (14.29%) NVMe
2 2 (7.14%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (32.14%) Windows
4 8 (28.57%) Unix
5 7 (25.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (14.29%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (7.14%) CentOS
7 2 (7.14%) Debian
7 2 (7.14%) Solaris
7 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (32.14%) DevOps
2 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (25.00%) High Availability
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Capacity Management
5 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 4 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 4 (14.29%) Migration
5 4 (14.29%) Observability
5 4 (14.29%) OO
5 4 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
5 4 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 4 (14.29%) SDLC
5 4 (14.29%) Storage Management
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Server Management
6 3 (10.71%) Storage Virtualisation
6 3 (10.71%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) Python
2 12 (42.86%) Perl
3 5 (17.86%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) C
5 3 (10.71%) Korn
5 3 (10.71%) PHP
5 3 (10.71%) Ruby
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) GPFS
2 4 (14.29%) NFS
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.00%) Puppet
3 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 5 (17.86%) VMware
3 4 (14.29%) Brocade
3 4 (14.29%) EMC
3 4 (14.29%) Google
3 4 (14.29%) IBM
3 4 (14.29%) NetApp
3 4 (14.29%) Sybase
3 4 (14.29%) Veritas
4 3 (10.71%) F5
4 3 (10.71%) Sun
4 3 (10.71%) TOWER Software
5 1 (3.57%) Dell
5 1 (3.57%) HP