Linux/Unix DevOps Contracts

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 667 784
Rank change year-on-year +95 +117 -155
Contract jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 13 26 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.045% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.047% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 39
10th Percentile £515 £433 £493
25th Percentile £545 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £625
90th Percentile £650 £720 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £558 £550
% change year-on-year +5.83% +1.36% +20.55%

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
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 £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK

Linux/Unix DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps.

Daily rate trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK

Linux/Unix DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK

Linux/Unix DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK

Linux/Unix DevOps
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 Linux/Unix DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +73 8 £590 +5.83% 3
England +98 7 £600 -6.25% 4
Work from Home +115 6 £600 +9.09% 1
Scotland - 6 £650 -
London +88 5 £600 +33.33% 1
South East - 2 £530 - 2

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Linux/Unix DevOps 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/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (76.92%) Python
3 8 (61.54%) Finance
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Perl
4 6 (46.15%) Git
5 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
5 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
5 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
6 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle
6 4 (30.77%) DNS
6 4 (30.77%) AWS
6 4 (30.77%) Microservices
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
6 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
6 4 (30.77%) Ansible
6 4 (30.77%) Artifactory
6 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
6 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) WhatsApp
7 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (23.08%) Docker
7 3 (23.08%) Gradle
7 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (23.08%) GitLab

Linux/Unix DevOps 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 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) nginx
3 1 (7.69%) JBoss
3 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
2 3 (23.08%) WhatsApp
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
3 2 (15.38%) Datadog
3 2 (15.38%) Fastly
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Route 53
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Artifactory
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
3 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 3 (23.08%) Gradle
4 1 (7.69%) Ant
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
1 3 (23.08%) YAML
2 2 (15.38%) Django
2 2 (15.38%) HornetQ
2 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (15.38%) VCL
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Debian
4 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 3 (23.08%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Server Management
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Auto-Scaling
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 1 (7.69%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Perl
3 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
4 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) C
6 1 (7.69%) Groovy
6 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.69%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Varnish
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) HAProxy
5 1 (7.69%) Podman
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) HP
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