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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 11 21
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux 47 80 73
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.85% 10.71% 7.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.15% 57.55% 63.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 49
10th Percentile - £425 £400
25th Percentile £68 £445 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £547 £615 £630
90th Percentile £714 £750 £680
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 10
10th Percentile - £65.00 £43.78
25th Percentile £58.43 £65.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £67.88 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £119.00 £70.00 £71.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.76%

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 130 139 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 16.17% 18.61% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 63 82
10th Percentile £69 £141 £170
25th Percentile £225 £225 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -6.49% +6.94%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £629
90th Percentile £698 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £65.00 £47.88
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.75 £61.25
Median hourly rate £39.47 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.53% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 -
South West median hourly rate £32.75 £68.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -51.84% +8.80% -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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) GitHub
3 3 (6.38%) Azure
3 3 (6.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.26%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.26%) OCI
4 2 (4.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.26%) DNS
2 2 (4.26%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.13%) BGP
3 1 (2.13%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.13%) OSPF
3 1 (2.13%) SAN
3 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) GIS
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) GitLab
2 4 (8.51%) Git
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.13%) CMake
5 1 (2.13%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.13%) GoogleTest
5 1 (2.13%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Finance
2 4 (8.51%) Military
3 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Aviation
5 1 (2.13%) Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Product Engineer
1 9 (19.15%) Products Support Engineer
1 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
1 9 (19.15%) Software Support Engineer
1 9 (19.15%) Support Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Architect
4 4 (8.51%) System Design Authority
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) DBA
6 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (4.26%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) Middleware
2 6 (12.77%) Qt
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.26%) React
4 1 (2.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) Node.js
4 1 (2.13%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) CUDA
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (2.13%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (42.55%) Windows
2 15 (31.91%) Ubuntu
3 9 (19.15%) Android
4 8 (17.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.38%) Unix
6 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
2 18 (38.30%) Software Engineering
3 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
4 7 (14.89%) DevOps
4 7 (14.89%) DevSecOps
4 7 (14.89%) Machine Learning
4 7 (14.89%) Systems Engineering
4 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
5 6 (12.77%) API Design
5 6 (12.77%) API Integration
5 6 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (12.77%) Information Security
5 6 (12.77%) OCR
5 6 (12.77%) Patch Management
5 6 (12.77%) Software Architecture
6 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (10.64%) Migration
6 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.51%) Agile
7 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) C++
2 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
2 11 (23.40%) Shell Script
3 9 (19.15%) Ada
3 9 (19.15%) C
4 4 (8.51%) C#
4 4 (8.51%) SQL
5 3 (6.38%) Python
6 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.26%) Ruby
6 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (59.57%) Security Cleared
2 26 (55.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.38%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) OCA
5 2 (4.26%) OCP
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.13%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CCNA
6 1 (2.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Terraform
3 6 (12.77%) SCOM
4 3 (6.38%) Grafana
4 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.38%) Puppet
5 2 (4.26%) Ansible
5 2 (4.26%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.13%) Cilium
6 1 (2.13%) Podman
6 1 (2.13%) Rancher
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.13%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.51%) NVIDIA
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Juniper
4 1 (2.13%) SAP