Linux Contracts in West Sussex

Linux
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 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 13 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 28 28 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 10.94% 9.76% 8.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.44% 41.18% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 30
10th Percentile £283 £263 -
25th Percentile £463 £303 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £308 £408
Median % change year-on-year +54.47% -24.54% -17.68%
75th Percentile £578 £438 £488
90th Percentile £588 £583 £602
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -4.62% +22.91% +13.73%

All Operating Systems
West Sussex

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 Sussex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 71 68 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 27.73% 23.69% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 57 59
10th Percentile £200 £200 £172
25th Percentile £300 £263 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £331 £405
Median % change year-on-year +35.95% -18.27% -10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £565
90th Percentile £580 £585 £615
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £19.29
25th Percentile £36.75 £10.75 £31.46
Median hourly rate £38.50 £11.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +234.78% -78.50% +205.71%
75th Percentile £40.25 £12.25 £55.13
90th Percentile - - £55.20
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £53.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.38% +165.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in West Sussex over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
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 within the West Sussex region 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
Crawley +9 17 £550 +80.33% 2
Worthing -4 5 £475 -18.94%
Chichester - 2 £193 - 4
East Grinstead -5 1 £500 +17.65%
Linux
South East

Linux
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) GitHub
3 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.71%) DHCP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Junos
3 2 (7.14%) SSL
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (21.43%) GitLab
3 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.71%) Hudson
5 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
5 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) JMeter
5 2 (7.14%) Selenium
5 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (7.14%) Automotive
1 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Billing
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Front Office
2 1 (3.57%) Legal
2 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Platform Specialist
3 5 (17.86%) Database Specialist
4 3 (10.71%) Data Centre Technician
4 3 (10.71%) Data Technician
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
3 1 (3.57%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (17.86%) Clustering
2 5 (17.86%) Replication
3 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.14%) PKI
4 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (14.29%) Solaris
3 4 (14.29%) Unix
4 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
4 3 (10.71%) VMS
5 2 (7.14%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) High Availability
2 11 (39.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 7 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 7 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 7 (25.00%) Runbook
5 6 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (17.86%) Capacity Management
6 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
6 5 (17.86%) Database Security
6 5 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (17.86%) Migration
6 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
6 5 (17.86%) Storage Management
6 5 (17.86%) Task Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Agile
7 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.29%) ITIL
7 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Bash
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) Perl
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) C
5 2 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) VBScript
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.57%) ProC
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) vSphere
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 5 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (10.71%) Docker
6 2 (7.14%) Ceph
6 2 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (7.14%) XenApp
7 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.57%) LXC
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Ansible
2 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.00%) Terraform
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (7.14%) Pacemaker
5 2 (7.14%) Podman
5 2 (7.14%) SCCM
5 2 (7.14%) SELinux
6 1 (3.57%) Packer
6 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Red Hat
1 11 (39.29%) VMware
2 10 (35.71%) SolarWinds
3 8 (28.57%) Oracle
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco
4 3 (10.71%) Juniper
5 2 (7.14%) Citrix
5 2 (7.14%) Ivanti
5 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (7.14%) Sun
5 2 (7.14%) Symantec
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.57%) Veritas