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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 56 45 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.43% 4.26% 6.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.83% 41.28% 45.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 35
10th Percentile £319 £435 £478
25th Percentile £436 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £625 £553 £630
90th Percentile £725 £750 £645
South West median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 36
10th Percentile £65.68 £60.60 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £66.25 £60.91
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile - - £70.30
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +0.77%

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 106 109 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.74% 10.31% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 115
10th Percentile £188 £185 £163
25th Percentile £213 £215 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £397 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -24.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £669
90th Percentile £663 £593 £719
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 44 48
10th Percentile £18.13 £48.00 £19.27
25th Percentile £18.51 £59.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £70.88 £71.71
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

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 May 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 (1.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (3.57%) GitHub
2 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.79%) Azure
3 1 (1.79%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) IaaS
3 1 (1.79%) OCI
3 1 (1.79%) PaaS
3 1 (1.79%) SaaS
3 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (3.57%) LAN
3 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.79%) HTTP
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.71%) GitLab
3 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.57%) Git
4 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.79%) MLflow
5 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.14%) Finance
2 4 (7.14%) Legal
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Law
3 2 (3.57%) Marketing
3 2 (3.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.79%) Aviation
4 1 (1.79%) Electronics
4 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.79%) Military
4 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Linux Engineer
1 13 (23.21%) Software Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Ada Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Ada Software Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Embedded Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Product Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Products Support Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Software Support Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Linux Support
4 7 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Administrator
7 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 4 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) Middleware
2 2 (3.57%) Node.js
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.79%) LAMP
3 1 (1.79%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.79%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.57%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (1.79%) Clustering
3 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Windows
2 11 (19.64%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.36%) Unix
4 2 (3.57%) AIX
4 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.79%) CentOS
5 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) Software Engineering
2 14 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 13 (23.21%) CI/CD
4 11 (19.64%) DevOps
5 10 (17.86%) SysML
5 10 (17.86%) UML
6 8 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (10.71%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (8.93%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (8.93%) Security Hardening
10 3 (5.36%) Agile
10 3 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (5.36%) GitOps
10 3 (5.36%) High Availability
10 3 (5.36%) Process Improvement
10 3 (5.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 2 (3.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) Ada
2 15 (26.79%) Python
3 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (23.21%) C++
4 13 (23.21%) Shell Script
5 12 (21.43%) C
6 10 (17.86%) Bash
7 5 (8.93%) Perl
8 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.57%) Ruby
10 1 (1.79%) C#
10 1 (1.79%) Java
10 1 (1.79%) PHP
10 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (41.07%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) MCITP
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (23.21%) Ansible
3 7 (12.50%) Puppet
3 7 (12.50%) Terraform
4 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Red Hat
2 14 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.14%) NetApp
4 4 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) SAP