Linux Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Linux
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 29 44 22
Rank change year-on-year +15 -22 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 16 11 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.80% 2.22% 6.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.71% 22.00% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 18
10th Percentile £333 - £179
25th Percentile £415 £235 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £484
90th Percentile £618 £703 £547
East of England median daily rate £490 £433 £450
% change year-on-year +13.29% -3.89% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £30.39 £35.49
25th Percentile - £38.22 £49.38
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £79.38 £53.75
90th Percentile - £88.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £58.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.08% -7.69% +8.33%

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 35 50 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.68% 10.10% 25.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 78
10th Percentile £186 £156 £150
25th Percentile £313 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £273 £363
Median % change year-on-year +56.88% -24.83% -14.71%
75th Percentile £471 £477 £484
90th Percentile £573 £629 £510
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 25 41
10th Percentile - £13.57 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate - £14.16 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year - -2.95% +0.62%
75th Percentile - £25.18 £18.88
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cambridgeshire

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 1 May 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 +15 13 £430 -2.27% 126
Huntingdon - 1 - - 1
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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
2 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
2 1 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) LAN
1 4 (25.00%) NAS
1 4 (25.00%) SAN
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) SNMP
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Artifactory
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 2 (12.50%) Electronics
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 2 (12.50%) Marketing
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) C++ Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer in Test
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) Redfish
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) FPGA
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.25%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (18.75%) Unix
5 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (31.25%) Problem Management
3 4 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Workload Management
5 2 (12.50%) API Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Office Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
5 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) C++
4 2 (12.50%) Groovy
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) C-shell
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (6.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Consul
3 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) Podman
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) NetApp
3 3 (18.75%) Google
3 3 (18.75%) HP
3 3 (18.75%) IBM
4 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) Dell
5 1 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (6.25%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) Sun
5 1 (6.25%) Xilinx