Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 39 28 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux 676 1,664 2,584
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.48% 6.62% 5.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.25% 48.18% 47.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 1,149 1,772
10th Percentile £325 £418 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +2.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £638
90th Percentile £710 £753 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £570
% change year-on-year -5.98% +2.63% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 55 47
10th Percentile £46.39 £46.75 £42.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +12.75%
75th Percentile £71.25 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.65%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,563 3,454 5,394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.35% 13.75% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 2,433 3,815
10th Percentile £222 £250 £298
25th Percentile £350 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £606
90th Percentile £683 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 101 158
10th Percentile £12.85 £19.00 £14.43
25th Percentile £14.27 £38.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +28.15% +15.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux.

Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Linux hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 45 (6.66%) Confluence
2 35 (5.18%) nginx
3 24 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (3.40%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.78%) Apache
6 11 (1.63%) NetWeaver
7 10 (1.48%) IIS
8 8 (1.18%) Apache Spark
8 8 (1.18%) JBoss
9 6 (0.89%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.74%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.74%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.59%) Luigi
12 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
13 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 2 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (1.63%) SAP IBP
2 4 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.44%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.30%) Endur
4 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) BASE24
5 1 (0.15%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 179 (26.48%) AWS
2 161 (23.82%) Azure
3 46 (6.80%) GitHub
4 33 (4.88%) PaaS
5 32 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (4.73%) IaaS
5 32 (4.73%) Serverless
6 30 (4.44%) GCP
7 29 (4.29%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.99%) Entra ID
9 26 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (3.55%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (2.96%) Azure Storage
12 19 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.81%) SaaS
13 17 (2.51%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 16 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 79 (11.69%) Firewall
2 57 (8.43%) DNS
3 56 (8.28%) TCP/IP
4 39 (5.77%) SAN
5 35 (5.18%) DHCP
6 22 (3.25%) SSL
7 18 (2.66%) Network Security
8 16 (2.37%) VPN
9 14 (2.07%) LAN
9 14 (2.07%) VLAN
10 11 (1.63%) WAN
11 9 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
12 8 (1.18%) HTTP
12 8 (1.18%) NAS
13 7 (1.04%) 4G
13 7 (1.04%) FTP
13 7 (1.04%) Kerberos
13 7 (1.04%) Wireshark
14 6 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (0.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.88%) MySQL
2 32 (4.73%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.55%) Oracle Database
6 23 (3.40%) Relational Database
7 22 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.92%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.78%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.78%) RDBMS
10 12 (1.78%) SAP HANA
11 11 (1.63%) Big Data
11 11 (1.63%) SAP BW
12 8 (1.18%) Apache Hive
12 8 (1.18%) MariaDB
13 7 (1.04%) Couchbase
13 7 (1.04%) DB2
13 7 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (10.80%) Jenkins
2 69 (10.21%) Git
3 59 (8.73%) JIRA
4 40 (5.92%) GitLab
5 21 (3.11%) Bitbucket
6 17 (2.51%) Artifactory
7 14 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.89%) Maven
10 6 (0.89%) Selenium
10 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.74%) Postman
11 5 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.59%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.59%) Gradle
12 4 (0.59%) IDA Disassembler
12 4 (0.59%) Mockito
12 4 (0.59%) Subversion
12 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
General
1 182 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 117 (17.31%) Finance
3 67 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.29%) Banking
6 28 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.51%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.92%) Marketing
10 10 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.33%) Electronics
11 9 (1.33%) Front Office
12 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.89%) Legal
14 5 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 112 (16.57%) Developer
2 78 (11.54%) Senior
3 71 (10.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (7.25%) Linux Engineer
5 39 (5.77%) Architect
6 36 (5.33%) Consultant
6 36 (5.33%) Python Engineer
7 30 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 29 (4.29%) Administrator
9 26 (3.85%) DBA
10 24 (3.55%) Python Developer
11 22 (3.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 22 (3.25%) Support Engineer
12 21 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (2.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 20 (2.96%) Lead
13 20 (2.96%) Software Engineer
14 19 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
14 19 (2.81%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.62%) Kafka
2 31 (4.59%) HTML
3 29 (4.29%) CSS
3 29 (4.29%) Middleware
3 29 (4.29%) YAML
4 27 (3.99%) Web Services
5 26 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (3.40%) Laravel
7 22 (3.25%) .NET
8 21 (3.11%) ARM Templates
8 21 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
9 20 (2.96%) REST
10 19 (2.81%) LDAP
10 19 (2.81%) RESTful
10 19 (2.81%) Sass
11 17 (2.51%) JSON
12 14 (2.07%) Spring
13 13 (1.92%) WebSockets
14 11 (1.63%) React
14 11 (1.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.62%) Data Centre
2 34 (5.03%) PKI
3 31 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (4.44%) Replication
5 26 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 24 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.96%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.51%) Cloud Native
10 14 (2.07%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.07%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.78%) Clustering
12 11 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.48%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
16 6 (0.89%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 234 (34.62%) Windows
2 135 (19.97%) Unix
3 76 (11.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (9.47%) Windows Server
5 51 (7.54%) Ubuntu
6 23 (3.40%) CentOS
7 22 (3.25%) Solaris
8 20 (2.96%) Debian
9 19 (2.81%) VMS
9 19 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (2.81%) zOS
10 18 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
12 14 (2.07%) AIX
13 9 (1.33%) Apple iOS
14 8 (1.18%) Android
14 8 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.59%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.44%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (27.37%) DevOps
2 169 (25.00%) Agile
3 143 (21.15%) CI/CD
4 97 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (9.62%) Migration
7 64 (9.47%) ITIL
8 62 (9.17%) Test Automation
9 57 (8.43%) Microservices
10 53 (7.84%) Software Engineering
11 52 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (6.95%) Disaster Recovery
13 45 (6.66%) Analytics
13 45 (6.66%) Configuration Management
14 43 (6.36%) Performance Tuning
15 42 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 40 (5.92%) OO
17 39 (5.77%) High Availability
18 36 (5.33%) Containerisation
18 36 (5.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 214 (31.66%) Python
2 91 (13.46%) Bash
3 80 (11.83%) SQL
4 78 (11.54%) Java
5 66 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 58 (8.58%) JavaScript
7 46 (6.80%) Perl
8 44 (6.51%) C#
9 43 (6.36%) C++
10 42 (6.21%) Shell Script
11 31 (4.59%) PHP
12 25 (3.70%) Go
13 23 (3.40%) C
14 21 (3.11%) Bicep
15 17 (2.51%) VB
16 16 (2.37%) VBScript
17 14 (2.07%) JCL
18 12 (1.78%) REXX
18 12 (1.78%) Scala
19 11 (1.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 175 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 124 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 69 (10.21%) Degree
3 69 (10.21%) DV Cleared
4 16 (2.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.18%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.18%) SAP Certification
7 6 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.59%) CEH
8 4 (0.59%) CISSP
8 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.59%) OSCP
9 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.44%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.44%) GIAC
9 3 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.88%) QA
2 19 (2.81%) GDPR
3 14 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.92%) NIST
5 12 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.48%) SLA
7 7 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.74%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (14.20%) Active Directory
2 83 (12.28%) Docker
3 54 (7.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (6.66%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (3.11%) NFS
6 18 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (2.22%) Firmware
7 15 (2.22%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.07%) Time Sharing Option
9 13 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (1.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 12 (1.78%) vSphere
11 8 (1.18%) Hyper-V
12 7 (1.04%) HDFS
12 7 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.74%) KVM
13 5 (0.74%) Snort
14 3 (0.44%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.44%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 138 (20.41%) Ansible
2 136 (20.12%) Kubernetes
3 99 (14.64%) Terraform
4 48 (7.10%) Grafana
5 39 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 37 (5.47%) Puppet
7 29 (4.29%) SCCM
8 20 (2.96%) Progress Chef
8 20 (2.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 19 (2.81%) Kibana
10 18 (2.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (2.66%) SCOM
10 18 (2.66%) WSUS
11 16 (2.37%) Consul
11 16 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (1.78%) Data Guard
13 11 (1.63%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (1.63%) Nagios
13 11 (1.63%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (1.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 130 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 90 (13.31%) VMware
3 74 (10.95%) Red Hat
4 73 (10.80%) Oracle
5 43 (6.36%) Dell
6 40 (5.92%) IBM
7 35 (5.18%) Splunk
8 28 (4.14%) SAP
9 23 (3.40%) Atlassian
10 22 (3.25%) Cisco
11 21 (3.11%) Qualys
12 20 (2.96%) Google
13 19 (2.81%) Brocade
13 19 (2.81%) HP
14 15 (2.22%) ServiceNow
15 14 (2.07%) Broadcom
15 14 (2.07%) CA
15 14 (2.07%) CyberArk
15 14 (2.07%) Isilon
15 14 (2.07%) SaltStack