Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SELinux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SELinux over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 702 849
Rank change year-on-year +114 +147 -177
Contract jobs citing SELinux 6 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.023% 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.15% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £438 £536 -
25th Percentile £456 £540 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £441
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +35.98% +6.97%
75th Percentile £513 £725 £505
90th Percentile £563 £804 £536
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £650 £408
% change year-on-year -26.92% +59.51% -1.21%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SELinux is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,617 14,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.11% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,944 10,283
10th Percentile £256 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 209 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.48 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.75 £15.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +156.81% -44.03%
75th Percentile £53.75 £71.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £43.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +118.75% -10.11%

SELinux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SELinux over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SELinux within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +114 6 £475 -26.92% 1
UK excluding London +66 5 £475 -26.92%
South East +19 3 £475 -26.92%
Work from Home +124 2 £463 -14.35%
London +103 1 £600 -7.69% 1
Midlands - 1 £450 -
South West - 1 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -

SELinux
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 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) InfiniBand
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) LAMP
1 1 (16.67%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) A/B Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Canary Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Ceph
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) iptables
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) Lustre
2 1 (16.67%) NFS
2 1 (16.67%) Samba
2 1 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Argo
4 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
4 1 (16.67%) Istio
4 1 (16.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) Veritas
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec