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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 67 41 79
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.15% 6.84% 7.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.88% 39.05% 57.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 19
10th Percentile £430 £319 £383
25th Percentile £449 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £529
90th Percentile £613 £725 £544
South West median daily rate £538 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -10.42% +6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 45
10th Percentile £65.00 £65.30 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.38 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +6.78%
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 160 105 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 12.31% 17.53% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 51 55
10th Percentile £259 £180 £185
25th Percentile £400 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £439
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -8.93% -17.52%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £521
90th Percentile £615 £625 £581
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 34 58
10th Percentile £16.56 £18.13 £52.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £65.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +231.21% -73.04% +6.87%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.88 - -
South West median hourly rate £41.00 £18.87 £67.50
% change year-on-year +117.28% -72.04% +3.05%

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 June 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 June 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 8 (11.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Simulink
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.43%) AWS
2 4 (5.97%) Azure
3 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.48%) GitHub
4 2 (2.99%) GCP
4 2 (2.99%) IaaS
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.49%) Datadog
5 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.96%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.49%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.49%) Firewall
3 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.49%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Rational Rhapsody
2 9 (13.43%) JIRA
3 6 (8.96%) Eclipse
3 6 (8.96%) Visual Studio
4 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.97%) Git
6 2 (2.99%) GitLab
6 2 (2.99%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.49%) Gatling
7 1 (1.49%) Gradle
7 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Military
3 6 (8.96%) Law
4 5 (7.46%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.48%) Finance
6 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 33 (49.25%) Software Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Embedded Engineer
3 16 (23.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 13 (19.40%) Lead
5 12 (17.91%) Ada Engineer
5 12 (17.91%) Ada Software Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Test Leader
8 6 (8.96%) C# Software Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) C++ Software Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Senior
11 3 (4.48%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Network Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Network Integration Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) Database Specialist
12 2 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) Node.js
2 6 (8.96%) Web Services
3 3 (4.48%) .NET
3 3 (4.48%) Qt
4 2 (2.99%) Yocto
5 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.49%) Middleware
5 1 (1.49%) OLE
5 1 (1.49%) Playwright
5 1 (1.49%) Quarkus
5 1 (1.49%) React
5 1 (1.49%) Spring
5 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.48%) Replication
3 2 (2.99%) Clustering
3 2 (2.99%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.49%) ASIC
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) PKI
4 1 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.37%) Windows
2 14 (20.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.97%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Android
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.49%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) Software Engineering
2 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
3 17 (25.37%) DevOps
3 17 (25.37%) UML
4 15 (22.39%) Validation
5 14 (20.90%) TDD
6 13 (19.40%) SysML
7 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
7 12 (17.91%) Verification and Validation
8 11 (16.42%) Unit Testing
9 10 (14.93%) Test Strategy
10 9 (13.43%) Agile
10 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 8 (11.94%) Configuration Management
11 8 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (11.94%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (10.45%) Synthetic Environment
12 7 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (10.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) C++
2 18 (26.87%) Ada
3 15 (22.39%) Python
4 14 (20.90%) C
5 9 (13.43%) C#
6 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.94%) MATLAB
7 6 (8.96%) Bash
8 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.48%) SQL
9 2 (2.99%) Go
9 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 37 (55.22%) Security Cleared
2 35 (52.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.49%) DICOM
3 1 (1.49%) HL7
3 1 (1.49%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.49%) MISRA
3 1 (1.49%) MISRA C
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Docker
2 6 (8.96%) Corosync
3 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) Ansible
1 7 (10.45%) Failover Clustering
1 7 (10.45%) Kubernetes
1 7 (10.45%) Pacemaker
1 7 (10.45%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Istio
3 1 (1.49%) Argo
3 1 (1.49%) Grafana
3 1 (1.49%) Nessus
3 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.49%) Puppet
3 1 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.45%) SAP
3 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.49%) Qualys
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) Tenable