Linux Contracts in Brentwood

Linux
Essex > Brentwood

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Brentwood 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 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 21 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brentwood 66.67% 61.76% 27.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 95.45% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile £355 £285 -
25th Percentile - £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £308 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.08% - -
75th Percentile - £438 -
90th Percentile £423 £441 -
Essex median daily rate £400 £370 £583
% change year-on-year +8.11% -36.54% -0.51%

All Operating Systems
Brentwood

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 Brentwood.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 22 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood 66.67% 64.71% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 0
10th Percentile £355 £290 -
25th Percentile - £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £315 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% - -
75th Percentile - £438 -
90th Percentile £423 £485 -
Essex median daily rate £375 £300 £220
% change year-on-year +25.00% +36.36% -54.64%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Brentwood

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Brentwood

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Brentwood

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Brentwood

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brentwood 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Gerrit
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) C Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DTV Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) POSIX
2 3 (50.00%) Yocto
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Device Driver
2 3 (50.00%) STB
3 2 (33.33%) Digital TV
3 2 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script