Linux Contract Job Trends in Bath

Linux
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring Linux skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bath 1.43% 4.69% 9.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.67% 20.00% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - £362
25th Percentile - £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile - £475 £575
90th Percentile - - £590
Somerset median daily rate £700 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +55.56% -7.69% -14.62%

All Operating Systems
Bath

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 Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 21.43% 23.44% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 9
10th Percentile - £188 £168
25th Percentile £140 £208 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £219 £330
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -33.64% -17.50%
75th Percentile £375 £240 £450
90th Percentile - £465 £580
Somerset median daily rate £275 £225 £250
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -30.56%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Bath

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Linux

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bath 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Research Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Parallel Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft