Linux Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Linux
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 23 30
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 38 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.03% 6.33% 5.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.41% 25.33% 28.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 26
10th Percentile - £179 £388
25th Percentile £235 £403 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £484 £538
90th Percentile £703 £547 £550
East of England median daily rate £425 £450 £490
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.16% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £32.16 £35.49 -
25th Percentile £42.64 £49.38 -
Median hourly rate £60.09 £52.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -38.24% -
75th Percentile £77.55 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £88.02 - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +32.60%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 49 150 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.94% 25.00% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 78 106
10th Percentile £156 £150 £197
25th Percentile £200 £185 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% -14.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £477 £484 £488
90th Percentile £629 £510 £538
East of England median daily rate £344 £419 £400
% change year-on-year -17.91% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 41 34
10th Percentile £13.50 - £12.33
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.08 £14.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +0.62% +16.00%
75th Percentile £18.11 £18.88 £15.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £19.48
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.20
% change year-on-year -4.23% -12.13% +22.42%

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 27 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 April 2024. 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 -14 9 £440 -2.22% 55
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Gerrit
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Local Government
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Support
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Kernel Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (10.00%) FFmpeg
2 1 (10.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) ASIC
2 2 (20.00%) FPGA
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) High Availability
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (30.00%) Release Management
1 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Team
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (20.00%) Red Team
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (20.00%) SIEM
2 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (20.00%) UVM
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Assembly Language
2 2 (20.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) SystemVerilog
2 2 (20.00%) Tcl
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Cadence
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Synopsys
2 2 (20.00%) Xilinx
3 1 (10.00%) Capita
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Northgate
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk