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 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 30 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -19 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 62 38 100
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.57% 5.53% 10.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.18% 40.00% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 26
10th Percentile £447 £287 £291
25th Percentile £456 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% -2.63% -20.83%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £524
90th Percentile £630 £783 £554
South West median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 50
10th Percentile £65.15 - £65.00
25th Percentile £66.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% +6.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -2.86% +3.95%

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 147 95 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 10.83% 13.83% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 37 59
10th Percentile £213 £208 £183
25th Percentile £325 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +2.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £533
90th Percentile £663 £790 £638
South West median daily rate £513 £437 £525
% change year-on-year +17.21% -16.71% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 42 59
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.17 £64.75
25th Percentile £19.33 - £65.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -73.04% +6.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 -
South West median hourly rate £36.93 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +95.69% -73.04% +7.19%

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 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Bristol

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 (6.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) AWS
2 7 (11.29%) Azure
3 4 (6.45%) GitHub
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (3.23%) GCP
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.23%) IaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Sentry
6 1 (1.61%) Datadog
6 1 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Ethernet
2 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.23%) Firewall
4 1 (1.61%) RS-232
4 1 (1.61%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) SAP HANA
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.45%) RDBMS
2 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Rational Rhapsody
2 8 (12.90%) JIRA
3 7 (11.29%) Git
4 6 (9.68%) GitLab
5 5 (8.06%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
6 4 (6.45%) Liquibase
6 4 (6.45%) Visual Studio
7 3 (4.84%) Eclipse
8 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (1.61%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.61%) Gatling
9 1 (1.61%) Gradle
9 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Aerospace
2 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.45%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Law
4 3 (4.84%) Military
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Avionics
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (41.94%) Software Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Embedded Engineer
3 14 (22.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Ada Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Ada Software Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Senior
5 9 (14.52%) Lead
6 7 (11.29%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (11.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.84%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Oracle Specialist
10 2 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) Terraform
2 4 (6.45%) Node.js
2 4 (6.45%) Web Services
3 3 (4.84%) .NET
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.23%) Django
4 2 (3.23%) Middleware
4 2 (3.23%) Yocto
5 1 (1.61%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.61%) Kafka
5 1 (1.61%) OLE
5 1 (1.61%) Playwright
5 1 (1.61%) Quarkus
5 1 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.61%) React
5 1 (1.61%) Spring
5 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.84%) Replication
3 2 (3.23%) Clustering
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.23%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.61%) ASIC
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (19.35%) Windows
3 4 (6.45%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (4.84%) CentOS
4 3 (4.84%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (3.23%) Unix
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (37.10%) DevOps
3 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 15 (24.19%) UML
5 14 (22.58%) Configuration Management
6 11 (17.74%) Containerisation
6 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (14.52%) TDD
8 8 (12.90%) Integration Testing
8 8 (12.90%) Multithreading
8 8 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (11.29%) High Availability
9 7 (11.29%) Issue Tracking
9 7 (11.29%) Project Management
9 7 (11.29%) Project Planning
9 7 (11.29%) SDLC
9 7 (11.29%) SysML
9 7 (11.29%) Test Automation
9 7 (11.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) Python
2 17 (27.42%) Ada
2 17 (27.42%) C++
3 10 (16.13%) C
4 6 (9.68%) Bash
4 6 (9.68%) C#
5 5 (8.06%) SQL
6 4 (6.45%) MATLAB
6 4 (6.45%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.84%) Java
7 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.23%) Rust
8 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.61%) Ada 95
9 1 (1.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 31 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) MISRA
2 3 (4.84%) MISRA C
3 2 (3.23%) NCSC
4 1 (1.61%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 6 (9.68%) Corosync
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.29%) Ansible
2 7 (11.29%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (11.29%) Pacemaker
3 2 (3.23%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) Puppet
4 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.61%) Istio
4 1 (1.61%) Nessus
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) PTC Integrity
4 1 (1.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.29%) SAP
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.61%) Green Hills
4 1 (1.61%) IBM
4 1 (1.61%) PTC
4 1 (1.61%) Qualys
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) Tenable
4 1 (1.61%) VMware