Linux Contracts in West London

Linux
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing Linux 22 34 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 6.15% 5.96% 6.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.89% 44.74% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 26
10th Percentile £174 £432 £243
25th Percentile £250 £471 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £648
90th Percentile £553 £673 £669
London median daily rate £563 £625 £605
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.31% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
10th Percentile - £64.90 £32.88
25th Percentile - - £33.44
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year - +106.90% -15.70%
75th Percentile - - £38.44
90th Percentile - £78.00 £38.63
London median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £49.29
% change year-on-year -16.67% +52.16% -1.42%

All Operating Systems
West London

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 advertised in West London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 76 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 12.57% 13.33% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 54 73
10th Percentile £193 £145 £138
25th Percentile £250 £209 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £365
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +13.01% -27.00%
75th Percentile £525 £570 £538
90th Percentile £538 £638 £650
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 12
10th Percentile £15.99 £65.00 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.13 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £20.22 £75.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.05% +265.85% -58.90%
75th Percentile £23.43 £80.00 £25.56
90th Percentile £40.65 £85.00 £36.63
London median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year -45.00% +61.62% -42.44%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in West London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in West London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in West London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in West London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the West London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hounslow -6 10 £250 -47.37% 3
Richmond upon Thames +3 6 £500 +17.65% 1
Hillingdon - 2 £519 - 3
Hammersmith - 2 £159 -
Linux
London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Asterisk PBX
1 5 (22.73%) VoIP
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) Network Security
3 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) HTTP
4 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.55%) IPsec
4 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 4 (18.18%) Redis
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Gatling
3 4 (18.18%) Mockito
3 4 (18.18%) ScalaTest
4 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Linux Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Scala Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Scala Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) DBA
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Akka
1 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
1 4 (18.18%) JPA
1 4 (18.18%) Play Framework
1 4 (18.18%) RESTful
1 4 (18.18%) spray
1 4 (18.18%) Spring
1 4 (18.18%) Spring MVC
1 4 (18.18%) Web Services
1 4 (18.18%) Yocto
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Clustering
4 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) CentOS
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Agile
1 6 (27.27%) High Availability
2 5 (22.73%) Microservices
2 5 (22.73%) Scrum
3 4 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
3 4 (18.18%) BDD
3 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (18.18%) Design Patterns
3 4 (18.18%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (18.18%) Kanban
3 4 (18.18%) Multithreading
3 4 (18.18%) MVC
3 4 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (18.18%) Pair Programming
3 4 (18.18%) Release Management
3 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 4 (18.18%) Software Delivery
3 4 (18.18%) TDD
3 4 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Java
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
2 4 (18.18%) C
2 4 (18.18%) C++
2 4 (18.18%) Scala
3 2 (9.09%) Go
3 2 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PMP
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Grafana
2 5 (22.73%) Nagios
2 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (9.09%) Puppet
3 2 (9.09%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) SCOM
3 2 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) HP
3 2 (9.09%) Huawei
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Trend Micro