Linux Engineer Contracts in West Sussex

Linux Engineer
South East > West Sussex

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in West Sussex is £475 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 33 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 7 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.80% - 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.92% - 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £408
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.54%
75th Percentile £488 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +35.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 240 281 424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 93.05% 97.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 220 318
10th Percentile £224 £181 £161
25th Percentile £391 £302 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £587 £587
90th Percentile £588 £689 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 21
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.60 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +23.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £22.75 £22.64 £21.39
90th Percentile £28.53 £24.55 £55.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -18.37%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in West Sussex

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in West Sussex

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in West Sussex

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the West Sussex region 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
Worthing - 3 £475 -
Crawley - 2 £450 -
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Linux 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 across the West Sussex region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) High Availability
3 5 (71.43%) Remediation Plan
3 5 (71.43%) Runbook
3 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
4 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
4 4 (57.14%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Bash
4 4 (57.14%) Solaris
5 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
5 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (42.86%) vSphere
5 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
6 2 (28.57%) Podman
6 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (28.57%) Perl
6 2 (28.57%) Sun
6 2 (28.57%) Firewall
6 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
6 2 (28.57%) Docker
6 2 (28.57%) SELinux

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Solaris
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Product Roadmap
2 5 (71.43%) Remediation Plan
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Runbook
3 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) SOLID
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Storyboarding
5 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) vSphere
2 2 (28.57%) Ceph
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (28.57%) Pacemaker
3 2 (28.57%) Podman
3 2 (28.57%) SELinux
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
4 2 (28.57%) Sun
5 1 (14.29%) Veritas