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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 68 47 90
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.06% 7.21% 8.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.72% 43.93% 61.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 23
10th Percentile £437 £319 £426
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £529
90th Percentile £606 £755 £564
South West median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 53
10th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.75 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% -2.86% +6.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +6.70%

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 167 107 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 12.42% 16.41% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 48 58
10th Percentile £225 £200 £185
25th Percentile £363 £291 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £440 £455
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -3.35% -17.27%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £536
90th Percentile £618 £690 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 40 66
10th Percentile £16.56 £18.13 £52.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £65.00
Median hourly rate £61.25 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +224.59% -73.04% +6.87%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 - £70.63
South West median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -73.04% +6.87%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 6 (8.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Simulink
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) AWS
2 5 (7.35%) Azure
3 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.41%) GitHub
4 2 (2.94%) GCP
4 2 (2.94%) IaaS
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%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) Datadog
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) Ethernet
1 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) RS-232
2 1 (1.47%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) SAP HANA
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Rational Rhapsody
2 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 7 (10.29%) Visual Studio
3 6 (8.82%) Eclipse
4 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.88%) Git
5 4 (5.88%) Liquibase
6 3 (4.41%) GitLab
7 2 (2.94%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.47%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.47%) Gatling
8 1 (1.47%) Gradle
8 1 (1.47%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Aerospace
2 6 (8.82%) Law
2 6 (8.82%) Military
3 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.47%) Avionics
6 1 (1.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 33 (48.53%) Software Engineer
2 17 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 16 (23.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Ada Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Ada Software Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Lead
5 8 (11.76%) Test Leader
6 7 (10.29%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior
7 6 (8.82%) C# Software Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 2 (2.94%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
11 2 (2.94%) Oracle Specialist
11 2 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
11 2 (2.94%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) Node.js
2 6 (8.82%) Web Services
3 3 (4.41%) .NET
4 2 (2.94%) Qt
4 2 (2.94%) Yocto
5 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.47%) Middleware
5 1 (1.47%) OLE
5 1 (1.47%) Playwright
5 1 (1.47%) Quarkus
5 1 (1.47%) React
5 1 (1.47%) Spring
5 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.41%) Replication
3 2 (2.94%) Clustering
3 2 (2.94%) Device Driver
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%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) PKI
4 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Windows
2 13 (19.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.88%) Software Engineering
2 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
3 20 (29.41%) DevOps
4 18 (26.47%) UML
5 14 (20.59%) TDD
6 13 (19.12%) SysML
7 12 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 11 (16.18%) Validation
9 10 (14.71%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.71%) Test Strategy
10 9 (13.24%) Configuration Management
11 8 (11.76%) Agile
11 8 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (11.76%) Verification and Validation
12 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.29%) Synthetic Environment
12 7 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (10.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) C++
2 19 (27.94%) Ada
3 15 (22.06%) Python
4 13 (19.12%) C
5 9 (13.24%) C#
6 8 (11.76%) MATLAB
7 6 (8.82%) Bash
7 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.35%) SQL
9 4 (5.88%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.94%) Go
10 2 (2.94%) Java
11 1 (1.47%) Ada 95
11 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (55.88%) Security Cleared
2 36 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) 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%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.47%) MIL-STD-1553
3 1 (1.47%) MISRA
3 1 (1.47%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) Corosync
3 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Ansible
1 8 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.29%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (10.29%) Pacemaker
2 7 (10.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Istio
4 1 (1.47%) Argo
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
4 1 (1.47%) Nessus
4 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.47%) PTC Integrity
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) SAP
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.47%) Green Hills
4 1 (1.47%) IBM
4 1 (1.47%) PTC
4 1 (1.47%) Qualys
4 1 (1.47%) Splunk
4 1 (1.47%) Tenable