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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 4.00% - 4.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £468 - £383
25th Percentile £469 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.79%
75th Percentile £484 - £531
90th Percentile £485 - £558
Somerset median daily rate £550 £755 £475
% change year-on-year -27.15% +58.95% +5.56%

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 3 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 6.00% 10.53% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £254 - £171
25th Percentile £334 - £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £140 £290
Median % change year-on-year +239.29% -51.72% -31.76%
75th Percentile £484 £159 £463
90th Percentile £485 £193 £531
Somerset median daily rate £275 £430 £198
% change year-on-year -36.05% +117.72% -53.53%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

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

Linux job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Bath 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform