Linux Contracts in Bedfordshire

Linux
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 31 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.28% 1.63% 3.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 22.22% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £243
25th Percentile - £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £438
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile - £388 £516
90th Percentile - - £566
East of England median daily rate £490 £433 £450
% change year-on-year +13.29% -3.89% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £58.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.08% -7.69% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8 18 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.13% 7.32% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 32
10th Percentile £160 £174 £156
25th Percentile £171 £181 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £263 £225
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +16.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £208 £363 £520
90th Percentile £218 £404 £598
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £30.78 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.37% - -
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

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 1 May 2025. 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
Luton +2 1 - - 7
Bedford - 1 - - 4
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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Avaya Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JTAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Avaya
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) MKS
1 1 (50.00%) Verint
1 1 (50.00%) Wind River