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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 14 20 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.59% 3.82% 6.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.18% 43.48% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 21
10th Percentile £348 £235 £180
25th Percentile £414 £285 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £487 £638 £488
90th Percentile £535 £654 £575
East of England median daily rate £486 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -11.59% +15.79% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - £28.30
25th Percentile - £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +27.27%

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 34 46 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.15% 8.80% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 57
10th Percentile £179 £168 £161
25th Percentile £193 £219 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £278 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% -34.71% -
75th Percentile £464 £513 £488
90th Percentile £482 £638 £540
East of England median daily rate £450 £493 £425
% change year-on-year -8.63% +15.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 31
10th Percentile - £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile - £14.16 £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.39% +296.55% -6.45%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £20.26
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £19.51
% change year-on-year -20.83% +207.53% -31.33%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +2 12 £428 -19.72% 158
Huntingdon - 1 - - 4
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 (28.57%) OpenStack
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (14.29%) NAS
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) TeamCity
3 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) FPGA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) IT Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
1 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (35.71%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.14%) Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) FPGA
4 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (7.14%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 5 (35.71%) CentOS
3 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 5 (35.71%) ITSM
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
3 3 (21.43%) Workload Management
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 2 (14.29%) Security Patching
4 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (7.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Consul
3 1 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Podman
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) Google
4 3 (21.43%) IBM
5 2 (14.29%) NetApp
6 1 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (7.14%) Xilinx