Linux Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Linux
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 4.76% 3.05% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.46% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile £408 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £403 - -

All Operating Systems
Barrow-in-Furness

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 12.38% 6.11% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £199 - -
25th Percentile £220 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £690 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £400 £155 £435
% change year-on-year +158.06% -64.37% +1.87%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

Linux job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) SNMP
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (80.00%) Server Building
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk