Linux Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Linux
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Linux skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 15 27 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.30% 6.28% 7.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.46% 77.14% 41.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 23
10th Percentile £346 £344 £207
25th Percentile £443 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £606 £566
90th Percentile £628 £638 £575
East of England median daily rate £491 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.68% +15.79% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £48.63 £29.80
25th Percentile £53.55 £50.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.70 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +9.52% -38.24%
75th Percentile £55.85 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year - -8.77% +9.62%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 39 35 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.17% 8.14% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 50
10th Percentile £163 £225 £136
25th Percentile £186 £284 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -44.12% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £432 £538 £502
90th Percentile £534 £638 £575
East of England median daily rate £448 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -0.56% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 23
10th Percentile - £48.63 £13.00
25th Percentile - £50.31 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -11.96%
75th Percentile £34.43 £63.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £47.28 - £61.25
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -2.31% +209.52% -58.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -9 14 £473 +11.18% 25
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (26.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
1 6 (40.00%) SAN
2 5 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 4 (26.67%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) VLAN
4 2 (13.33%) Wireless
5 1 (6.67%) DHCP
5 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) GitLab
2 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
3 3 (20.00%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (13.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) CentOS
1 6 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (33.33%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Workload Management
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Network Management
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Security Patching
4 2 (13.33%) Server Management
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) Perl
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) VMware
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (20.00%) Google
4 3 (20.00%) IBM
4 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco
5 2 (13.33%) Dell
5 2 (13.33%) Intel
5 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto