Linux Contracts in Bristol

Linux
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 47 89 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 7.56% 7.95% 6.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.34% 61.38% 51.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 31
10th Percentile £319 £426 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £529 £631
90th Percentile £755 £564 £675
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 52 27
10th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
25th Percentile - £66.25 £60.91
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.70% +0.93%
75th Percentile - - £70.30
90th Percentile - - £72.18
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.70% +0.93%

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 106 145 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 17.04% 12.96% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 57 82
10th Percentile £200 £185 £190
25th Percentile £291 £275 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -17.43% +28.24%
75th Percentile £600 £533 £675
90th Percentile £690 £638 £725
South West median daily rate £490 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -8.84% +3.37% +21.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 65 36
10th Percentile £18.13 £52.50 £29.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £65.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £70.75 -
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +21.80%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (2.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) AWS
2 7 (14.89%) GitHub
3 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.13%) OCI
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 5 (10.64%) DNS
3 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.38%) WAN
4 2 (4.26%) DHCP
4 2 (4.26%) LAN
5 1 (2.13%) BGP
5 1 (2.13%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.13%) HTTP
5 1 (2.13%) OSPF
5 1 (2.13%) SAN
5 1 (2.13%) VPN
5 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.13%) GIS
2 1 (2.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) GitLab
2 8 (17.02%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.26%) Git
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
5 1 (2.13%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (12.77%) Finance
2 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Product Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Products Support Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Software Support Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Support Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Linux Support
3 8 (17.02%) Linux Support Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Administrator
6 4 (8.51%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (8.51%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) DevOps Administrator
7 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 3 (6.38%) Senior
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead
8 2 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Middleware
2 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.13%) LAMP
3 1 (2.13%) Qt
3 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Ubuntu
2 10 (21.28%) Windows
3 6 (12.77%) Unix
4 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) Solaris
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 16 (34.04%) Software Engineering
3 13 (27.66%) DevOps
4 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
6 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (12.77%) Migration
6 6 (12.77%) Task Automation
7 5 (10.64%) Security Hardening
7 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.51%) High Availability
8 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (6.38%) GitOps
9 3 (6.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 2 (4.26%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (4.26%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) C++
1 16 (34.04%) JavaScript
2 15 (31.91%) Shell Script
3 14 (29.79%) C
4 13 (27.66%) Ada
5 12 (25.53%) Python
6 6 (12.77%) Bash
7 4 (8.51%) Perl
8 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.13%) C#
9 1 (2.13%) PHP
9 1 (2.13%) Ruby
9 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.13%) CCNA
4 1 (2.13%) CCNP
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Terraform
2 11 (23.40%) Puppet
3 10 (21.28%) Kubernetes
4 8 (17.02%) Ansible
5 4 (8.51%) Grafana
5 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.13%) yum
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Red Hat
2 9 (19.15%) VMware
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) NetApp
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Juniper