Linux Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Linux
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 30 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 -19 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 52 38 99
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.84% 5.23% 11.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 37.62% 65.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 27
10th Percentile £442 £68 £303
25th Percentile £449 £338 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -20.83%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £529
90th Percentile £640 £790 £582
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 45
10th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
25th Percentile £65.19 £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.25 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -2.86% +36.59%
75th Percentile £68.00 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -2.86% +7.69%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 130 101 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 9.60% 13.91% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 38 59
10th Percentile £213 £69 £140
25th Percentile £300 £325 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +12.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £533
90th Percentile £691 £786 £645
South West median daily rate £550 £425 £518
% change year-on-year +29.41% -17.87% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 47 51
10th Percentile £15.76 £18.36 £65.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £66.25
Median hourly rate £25.75 £21.46 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -69.34% +36.59%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 -
South West median hourly rate £36.36 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +44.55% -64.07% +7.69%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Bristol

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Bristol

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) AWS
2 5 (9.62%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) GitHub
4 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.85%) IaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Sentry
6 1 (1.92%) Datadog
6 1 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.62%) Ethernet
3 4 (7.69%) Firewall
4 2 (3.85%) DHCP
4 2 (3.85%) DNS
5 1 (1.92%) Internet
5 1 (1.92%) RS-232
5 1 (1.92%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SAP HANA
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 4 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) JIRA
2 8 (15.38%) Rational Rhapsody
3 6 (11.54%) GitLab
3 6 (11.54%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (9.62%) Git
4 5 (9.62%) Visual Studio
5 4 (7.69%) Eclipse
5 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 4 (7.69%) Liquibase
6 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (1.92%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.92%) Gatling
7 1 (1.92%) Gradle
7 1 (1.92%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.92%) Selenium
7 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.62%) Aerospace
2 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Law
3 4 (7.69%) Military
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.92%) Avionics
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Software Engineer
2 17 (32.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Embedded Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Senior
5 7 (13.46%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (13.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Ada Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Ada Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Database Specialist
8 2 (3.85%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Terraform
2 5 (9.62%) Node.js
2 5 (9.62%) Web Services
3 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.85%) Django
3 2 (3.85%) Middleware
3 2 (3.85%) Playwright
3 2 (3.85%) Yocto
4 1 (1.92%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.92%) Kafka
4 1 (1.92%) Quarkus
4 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.92%) React
4 1 (1.92%) Spring
4 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Replication
2 2 (3.85%) Clustering
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.85%) Device Driver
2 2 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Windows
2 10 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (9.62%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (5.77%) CentOS
5 2 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (3.85%) Unix
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) DevOps
2 20 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 15 (28.85%) Configuration Management
4 12 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 12 (23.08%) UML
5 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (17.31%) Integration Testing
6 9 (17.31%) Multithreading
6 9 (17.31%) Validation
7 8 (15.38%) Agile
7 8 (15.38%) Issue Tracking
7 8 (15.38%) Project Management
7 8 (15.38%) Project Planning
7 8 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (13.46%) High Availability
9 6 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.54%) SDLC
9 6 (11.54%) TDD
10 5 (9.62%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) C++
1 15 (28.85%) Python
2 14 (26.92%) Ada
3 7 (13.46%) Bash
4 5 (9.62%) C
4 5 (9.62%) SQL
5 4 (7.69%) C#
5 4 (7.69%) Java
5 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.85%) Rust
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) Ada 95
7 1 (1.92%) Go
7 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 25 (48.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) MISRA
1 4 (7.69%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.92%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) Corosync
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Ansible
1 7 (13.46%) Failover Clustering
1 7 (13.46%) Pacemaker
2 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Puppet
3 2 (3.85%) SCCM
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.92%) Istio
4 1 (1.92%) Nessus
4 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
1 7 (13.46%) SAP
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) F5
4 1 (1.92%) Green Hills
4 1 (1.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.92%) PTC
4 1 (1.92%) Qualys
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) Tenable
4 1 (1.92%) VMware