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 citing Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	33	28	16
Rank change year-on-year	-5	-12	+4
Contract jobs citing Linux	11	17	31
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire	2.92%	4.78%	8.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category	27.50%	47.22%	79.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	6	8	11
10^th Percentile	£484	£343	£344
25^th Percentile	£506	£400	£378
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£513	£445	£438
Median % change year-on-year	+15.17%	+1.71%	-20.45%
75^th Percentile	£598	£614	£588
90^th Percentile	£625	£626	£638
East of England median daily rate	£483	£475	£550
% change year-on-year	+1.58%	-13.64%	+10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	4
10^th Percentile	-	£33.48	£48.63
25^th Percentile	-	£36.83	£50.31
Median hourly rate	-	£43.60	£57.50
Median % change year-on-year	-	-24.17%	-23.33%
75^th Percentile	-	£50.33	£63.75
90^th Percentile	-	£53.64	-
East of England median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00
% change year-on-year	-	-	-10.34%

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 citing operating system skills in Cambridgeshire.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing operating system skills	40	36	39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire	10.61%	10.11%	10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	20	20	14
10^th Percentile	£185	£163	£225
25^th Percentile	£187	£189	£344
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£213	£250	£425
Median % change year-on-year	-15.00%	-41.18%	-10.53%
75^th Percentile	£495	£433	£556
90^th Percentile	£529	£613	£626
East of England median daily rate	£240	£361	£450
% change year-on-year	-33.56%	-19.72%	-3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	4	4
10^th Percentile	-	-	£48.63
25^th Percentile	£46.25	£13.00	£50.31
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£22.75	£57.50
Median % change year-on-year	+108.79%	-60.43%	+296.55%
75^th Percentile	£48.75	£39.28	£63.75
90^th Percentile	-	£49.22	-
East of England median hourly rate	£68.75	£42.50	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+61.76%	-34.62%	+258.92%

Linux Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Linux Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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 28 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cambridgeshire

Linux Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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 28 October 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Cambridge	+1	9	£513	+15.17%	23
Peterborough	-	1	-	-
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Linux Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Linux also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region citing Linux.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	81.8%	9
2	Ansible	54.5%	6
2	Azure	54.5%	6
2	Bash	54.5%	6
2	CI/CD	54.5%	6
2	Root Cause Analysis	54.5%	6
7	AWS	45.5%	5
7	GCP	45.5%	5
7	Git	45.5%	5
7	Infrastructure Engineering	45.5%	5
7	Terraform	45.5%	5
12	Agile	36.4%	4
12	AI	36.4%	4
12	DevOps	36.4%	4
12	Infrastructure as Code	36.4%	4
12	NetApp	36.4%	4
12	Platform Engineering	36.4%	4
12	Puppet	36.4%	4
12	Windows	36.4%	4
20	Anomaly Detection	27.3%	3
20	Confluence	27.3%	3
20	Continuous Improvement	27.3%	3
20	DHCP	27.3%	3
20	Incident Management	27.3%	3
20	Incident Response	27.3%	3
20	ITIL	27.3%	3
20	JIRA	27.3%	3
20	Machine Learning	27.3%	3
20	OpenStack	27.3%	3
20	Problem-Solving	27.3%	3

Linux Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Operating Systems

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Windows	36.4%	4
2	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	27.3%	3
3	Rocky	18.2%	2
3	Ubuntu	18.2%	2
3	Windows Server	18.2%	2
6	Android	9.1%	1
6	Apple iOS	9.1%	1
6	macOS	9.1%	1