Linux Contracts in Bedfordshire

Linux
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 25 37
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.55% 3.21% 1.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.22% 15.00% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £243 -
25th Percentile £363 £344 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £388 £516 -
90th Percentile - £566 -
East of England median daily rate £425 £450 £493
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.63% +15.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +32.60%

All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 40 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.98% 21.39% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 21
10th Percentile £174 £156 £95
25th Percentile £181 £163 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £225 £338
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £363 £520 £400
90th Percentile £404 £598 £450
East of England median daily rate £350 £406 £400
% change year-on-year -13.85% +1.56% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +238.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.23% -11.25% +23.08%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Bedfordshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Bedfordshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Bedfordshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Dunstable -3 2 £375 - 1
Luton -5 1 - - 1
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) AIX
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Tech Ops
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys