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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 30 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 15 27
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 6.23% 4.30% 6.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.27% 38.46% 77.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 11
10th Percentile £428 £346 £344
25th Percentile £473 £443 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £473 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +8.00% -7.89%
75th Percentile £519 £584 £606
90th Percentile £593 £628 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £491 £550
% change year-on-year +1.78% -10.68% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £48.63
25th Percentile - £53.55 £50.31
Median hourly rate £34.13 £54.70 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.61% -4.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile - £55.85 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.77%

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 44 39 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.92% 11.17% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 15
10th Percentile £186 £163 £225
25th Percentile £198 £186 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £238 £425
Median % change year-on-year +77.89% -44.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £432 £538
90th Percentile £519 £534 £638
East of England median daily rate £345 £448 £450
% change year-on-year -22.91% -0.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £48.63
25th Percentile - - £50.31
Median hourly rate £34.13 £13.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +162.54% -77.39% +296.55%
75th Percentile - £34.43 £63.75
90th Percentile - £47.28 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +209.52%

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 job vacancy trend 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 16 September 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.

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 16 September 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +7 21 £510 +7.94% 166
Peterborough - 1 - - 8
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) OpenStack
2 3 (13.04%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) DHCP
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 2 (8.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) InfiniBand
3 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) InfluxDB
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.70%) Gerrit
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Security Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Audio Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Jolokia
2 2 (8.70%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) LAMP
3 1 (4.35%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Acoustics
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 4 (17.39%) Android
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Rocky
5 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (21.74%) AI
3 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
4 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Data Collection
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Motion Capture
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Service Management
5 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) C++
4 2 (8.70%) Groovy
4 2 (8.70%) Perl
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) RHCE
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) vSphere
2 4 (17.39%) VMware NSX
3 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 3 (13.04%) Firmware
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.35%) GPFS
5 1 (4.35%) Lustre
5 1 (4.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Ansible
2 6 (26.09%) Puppet
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) Salt
4 1 (4.35%) Consul
4 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) VMware
2 4 (17.39%) NetApp
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) Cadence
4 1 (4.35%) Coverity
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Perforce
4 1 (4.35%) Synopsys