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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 24 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing Linux 70 47 94
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.34% 6.86% 9.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.92% 44.34% 66.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 24
10th Percentile £444 £311 £268
25th Percentile £449 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £523
90th Percentile £613 £755 £536
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 51
10th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.75 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% +6.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -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 167 106 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 12.74% 15.47% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 44 56
10th Percentile £213 £186 £185
25th Percentile £350 £311 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £572 £625 £533
90th Percentile £626 £760 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £490 £538
% change year-on-year +2.04% -8.84% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 42 61
10th Percentile £16.38 £18.17 £65.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.60 £66.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +244.46% -73.04% +6.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 - £74.00
South West median hourly rate £40.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +114.63% -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Simulink
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.57%) AWS
2 5 (7.14%) Azure
3 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.29%) GitHub
4 2 (2.86%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) IaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.43%) Datadog
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 6 (8.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.86%) Firewall
4 1 (1.43%) RS-232
4 1 (1.43%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) SAP HANA
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.71%) RDBMS
2 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Rational Rhapsody
2 7 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 6 (8.57%) Eclipse
3 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 5 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.71%) Git
5 4 (5.71%) GitLab
5 4 (5.71%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.43%) Gatling
7 1 (1.43%) Gradle
7 1 (1.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Aerospace
3 6 (8.57%) Law
3 6 (8.57%) Military
4 4 (5.71%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.43%) Avionics
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Software Engineer
2 17 (24.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 16 (22.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (21.43%) Ada Engineer
4 15 (21.43%) Ada Software Engineer
5 14 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (18.57%) Lead
7 8 (11.43%) Test Leader
8 7 (10.00%) Senior
9 6 (8.57%) C# Software Engineer
9 6 (8.57%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (8.57%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (8.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
12 3 (4.29%) Embedded Linux Engineer
13 2 (2.86%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
13 2 (2.86%) Oracle Specialist
13 2 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
13 2 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) Node.js
1 7 (10.00%) Web Services
2 3 (4.29%) .NET
3 2 (2.86%) Middleware
3 2 (2.86%) Yocto
4 1 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.43%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) OLE
4 1 (1.43%) Playwright
4 1 (1.43%) Quarkus
4 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) Spring
4 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.29%) Replication
3 2 (2.86%) Clustering
3 2 (2.86%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.43%) ASIC
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.86%) Windows
2 15 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.29%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.86%) CentOS
5 1 (1.43%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) Software Engineering
2 24 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 22 (31.43%) DevOps
4 18 (25.71%) UML
5 14 (20.00%) TDD
6 13 (18.57%) SysML
7 11 (15.71%) Configuration Management
7 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 10 (14.29%) Test Strategy
8 10 (14.29%) Validation
9 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (11.43%) Agile
10 8 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (10.00%) High Availability
11 7 (10.00%) Synthetic Environment
11 7 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) C++
2 20 (28.57%) Ada
3 17 (24.29%) Python
4 14 (20.00%) C
5 9 (12.86%) C#
6 8 (11.43%) Bash
6 8 (11.43%) MATLAB
7 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.14%) SQL
9 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
10 3 (4.29%) Java
11 2 (2.86%) Go
11 2 (2.86%) Rust
12 1 (1.43%) Ada 95
12 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (52.86%) Security Cleared
2 34 (48.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) NCSC
3 1 (1.43%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
2 6 (8.57%) Corosync
3 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.43%) Firmware
3 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Ansible
1 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
1 8 (11.43%) Terraform
2 7 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (10.00%) Pacemaker
3 2 (2.86%) Grafana
3 2 (2.86%) Istio
3 2 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.43%) Argo
4 1 (1.43%) Nessus
4 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) PTC Integrity
4 1 (1.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) SAP
3 4 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.43%) Green Hills
4 1 (1.43%) IBM
4 1 (1.43%) PTC
4 1 (1.43%) Qualys
4 1 (1.43%) Splunk
4 1 (1.43%) Tenable
4 1 (1.43%) VMware