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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 42 100 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 5.75% 10.87% 6.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 64.10% 62.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 54
10th Percentile £328 £291 £425
25th Percentile £433 £431 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £524 £636
90th Percentile £786 £554 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £544 £575
% change year-on-year +1.15% -5.43% +0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 48 5
10th Percentile - £65.00 £32.65
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.70% +0.16%
75th Percentile - - £70.30
90th Percentile - - £76.12
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £68.48
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.22% +5.35%

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 105 156 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 14.38% 16.96% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 65 90
10th Percentile £244 £140 £188
25th Percentile £343 £213 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £616 £533 £636
90th Percentile £786 £623 £678
South West median daily rate £435 £523 £520
% change year-on-year -16.75% +0.48% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 55 5
10th Percentile £18.13 £65.00 £32.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £66.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £23.31 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year -66.71% +6.70% +0.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £68.00 - £76.12
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% -

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

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 18 September 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
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 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) OCI
4 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
1 3 (7.14%) Firewall
1 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.76%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.38%) BGP
3 1 (2.38%) DHCP
3 1 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.38%) OSPF
3 1 (2.38%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) GIS
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) GitLab
2 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (4.76%) Eclipse
4 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) CMake
5 1 (2.38%) GoogleTest
5 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Financial Institution
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Military
5 2 (4.76%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Electronics
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Product Engineer
1 12 (28.57%) Products Support Engineer
1 12 (28.57%) Software Support Engineer
1 12 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Linux Support
3 9 (21.43%) Linux Support Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Administrator
7 2 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) DBA
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Administrator
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) Middleware
2 6 (14.29%) Qt
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) React
3 2 (4.76%) Web Services
4 1 (2.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.38%) LAMP
4 1 (2.38%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) CUDA
4 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (2.38%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Windows
2 12 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 5 (11.90%) Unix
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.38%) Android
6 1 (2.38%) CentOS
6 1 (2.38%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (35.71%) DevOps
4 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (19.05%) Migration
6 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Information Security
8 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (9.52%) Configuration Management
9 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (7.14%) Agile
10 3 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (7.14%) High Availability
10 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.14%) Task Automation
11 2 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
11 2 (4.76%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) C++
2 14 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 13 (30.95%) Shell Script
4 12 (28.57%) Ada
4 12 (28.57%) C
5 5 (11.90%) C#
6 4 (9.52%) Python
7 3 (7.14%) SQL
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 2 (4.76%) Perl
8 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.38%) PHP
9 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) OCA
4 2 (4.76%) OCP
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.38%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.38%) CCNA
5 1 (2.38%) CCNP
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.67%) Puppet
3 5 (11.90%) Ansible
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
4 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.76%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Rancher
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.38%) yum
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.90%) VMware
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) Juniper
5 1 (2.38%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.38%) SAP