Linux Contracts in Cambridge

Linux
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 7 22 8
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 11.40% 5.15% 10.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 81.25% 40.00% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 15
10th Percentile £313 - £180
25th Percentile £414 £235 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £481
90th Percentile £625 £703 £519
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £430 £440 £450
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £55.63 £35.49
25th Percentile - £62.19 £49.38
Median hourly rate - £76.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +45.24% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £87.19 £53.75
90th Percentile - £91.88 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -38.24%

All Operating Systems
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 25 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 14.04% 12.89% 23.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 45
10th Percentile £313 £163 £143
25th Percentile £388 £225 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £310 £250
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% +24.00% -47.37%
75th Percentile £522 £535 £475
90th Percentile £621 £638 £506
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £428 £273 £363
% change year-on-year +56.88% -24.83% -14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £55.00 £15.35
25th Percentile - £58.75 £17.47
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +223.08%
75th Percentile - £66.63 £53.75
90th Percentile - £80.88 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £14.16 £14.59
% change year-on-year - -2.95% +0.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) NAS
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SNMP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Electronics
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
1 2 (15.38%) Marketing
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) C++ Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer in Test
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Team
2 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) FPGA
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.69%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Mac OS
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
2 4 (30.77%) Resource Management
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Workload Management
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) C-shell
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (7.69%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
1 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Consul
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) NetApp
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) HP
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.69%) Sun
5 1 (7.69%) Xilinx