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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 33
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 68 55 50
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.43% 9.75% 4.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.50% 50.93% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 9
10th Percentile - £319 £357
25th Percentile £449 £434 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £513
90th Percentile £625 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 20 33
10th Percentile £58.43 £65.68 £64.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +6.87%
75th Percentile £68.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +6.87%

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 160 108 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 12.78% 19.15% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 54 45
10th Percentile £264 £186 £185
25th Percentile £400 £213 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £432 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +8.06% -27.27%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £500
90th Percentile £636 £625 £594
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 36 48
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £48.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £61.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -5.00% +6.87%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 - £70.38
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -5.06% +6.40% -3.85%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 11 (16.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Simulink
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) AWS
2 5 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.41%) GitHub
3 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.94%) Azure
4 2 (2.94%) IaaS
4 2 (2.94%) Serverless
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.35%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.47%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) JIRA
2 11 (16.18%) Rational Rhapsody
3 5 (7.35%) Eclipse
3 5 (7.35%) Git
3 5 (7.35%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.94%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Military
3 5 (7.35%) Law
4 3 (4.41%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 30 (44.12%) Software Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Embedded Engineer
3 14 (20.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Lead
5 12 (17.65%) Ada Engineer
5 12 (17.65%) Ada Software Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Test Leader
7 6 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Network Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Database Specialist
10 2 (2.94%) Network Communications Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Oracle Specialist
10 2 (2.94%) Senior
10 2 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) Node.js
1 5 (7.35%) Web Services
2 3 (4.41%) .NET
2 3 (4.41%) Qt
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) Middleware
3 1 (1.47%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.41%) Replication
3 2 (2.94%) Clustering
4 1 (1.47%) ASIC
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.41%) Windows
2 14 (20.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (13.24%) Android
4 2 (2.94%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.47%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) Software Engineering
2 24 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 17 (25.00%) UML
4 15 (22.06%) Validation
5 13 (19.12%) DevOps
5 13 (19.12%) SysML
5 13 (19.12%) TDD
6 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 12 (17.65%) Unit Testing
6 12 (17.65%) Verification and Validation
7 10 (14.71%) Agile
7 10 (14.71%) Test Strategy
8 9 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (11.76%) Configuration Management
9 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (10.29%) High Availability
10 7 (10.29%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) C++
2 18 (26.47%) Ada
3 15 (22.06%) Python
4 14 (20.59%) C
5 8 (11.76%) C#
5 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.76%) MATLAB
6 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.41%) Bash
8 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.94%) Ruby
8 2 (2.94%) SQL
9 1 (1.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (61.76%) Security Cleared
2 41 (60.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) NCSC
3 1 (1.47%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.47%) DICOM
3 1 (1.47%) HL7
3 1 (1.47%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.47%) MISRA
3 1 (1.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Corosync
2 5 (7.35%) Docker
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Failover Clustering
1 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
1 7 (10.29%) Pacemaker
1 7 (10.29%) Terraform
2 4 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (1.47%) Argo
3 1 (1.47%) Istio
3 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.29%) SAP
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle