Linux Scripter Contracts

Linux Scripter
UK

The median Linux Scripter daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 710 855
Rank change year-on-year +144 +145 -169
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Scripter 12 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.010% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.011% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile - - £512
25th Percentile - - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -33.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile - - £681
90th Percentile - - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Linux Scripter
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Scripter in the UK

Linux Scripter
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Scripter in the UK

Linux Scripter
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Scripter in the UK

Linux Scripter
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Scripter within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
UK excluding London +68 11 £650 -
Scotland +48 11 £650 -
Work from Home +135 10 £650 +62.50%
London +109 1 - -
England +105 1 - -

Linux Scripter Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Linux Scripter 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 Scripter in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Unix
3 8 (66.67%) OO
3 8 (66.67%) Python
4 7 (58.33%) Perl
5 4 (33.33%) Java
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Scala
5 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Git
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
7 1 (8.33%) Redfish
7 1 (8.33%) Podman
7 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (8.33%) Release Management
7 1 (8.33%) Groovy
7 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
7 1 (8.33%) JIRA
7 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
7 1 (8.33%) Agile
7 1 (8.33%) Banking

Linux Scripter 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) JBoss
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) IaaS
1 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Ant
2 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
2 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) OO
2 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) Release Management
4 1 (8.33%) Server Management
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) Perl
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Podman
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) HP
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle