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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 9 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.23% 9.82% 9.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.94% 59.26% 46.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 13
10th Percentile £300 £389 -
25th Percentile £375 £479 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +38.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £475
90th Percentile £570 £719 £551
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £588 £450
% change year-on-year -14.89% +30.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £26.23
25th Percentile - £51.25 £42.31
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 17 27 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 9.88% 16.56% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 30
10th Percentile £188 - £132
25th Percentile £220 £225 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £401 £250
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% +60.50% -47.37%
75th Percentile £375 £638 £475
90th Percentile £535 - £480
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £200 £401 £425
% change year-on-year -50.16% -5.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - - £15.28
25th Percentile - £51.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +133.33%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £55.63
90th Percentile - - £61.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -77.39% +283.33% -3.23%

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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 14 August 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 (44.44%) OpenStack
2 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) iSCSI
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
3 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Administrator
1 5 (55.56%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Centre
1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (55.56%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
4 1 (11.11%) FPGA
4 1 (11.11%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) CentOS
1 5 (55.56%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) ITSM
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (33.33%) Workload Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Science
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Security Patching
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (11.11%) Data Collection
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (11.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) ServiceNow
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Google
3 3 (33.33%) IBM
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) Xilinx