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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux 19 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.56% 3.47% 4.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.58% 33.33% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £413 £325 £408
25th Percentile £463 £438 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -8.51% +30.56%
75th Percentile £515 £594 £638
90th Percentile £625 £605 £686
East of England median daily rate £479 £490 £550
% change year-on-year -2.30% -10.91% +18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £34.13 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 33 33 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.65% 10.41% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 16
10th Percentile £203 £164 £165
25th Percentile £244 £183 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £200 £401
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -50.16% -5.59%
75th Percentile £515 £381 £591
90th Percentile £570 £553 £638
East of England median daily rate £350 £450 £483
% change year-on-year -22.22% -6.78% +13.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £18.82 - £26.05
25th Percentile £21.37 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £25.76 £13.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.13% -77.39% +296.55%
75th Percentile £30.01 - £63.75
90th Percentile £32.48 - -
East of England median hourly rate £55.25 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.07% -12.31% +205.09%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +6 17 £510 -5.12% 80
Peterborough - 1 - - 1
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 (21.05%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (31.58%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) InfiniBand
2 1 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Security Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Audio Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Acoustics
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.26%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (21.05%) Android
4 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) AI
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
2 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
3 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (15.79%) Anomaly Detection
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Data Collection
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
4 3 (15.79%) Motion Capture
4 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Service Management
4 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) vSphere
2 4 (21.05%) VMware NSX
3 3 (15.79%) Firmware
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.26%) Docker
5 1 (5.26%) GPFS
5 1 (5.26%) Lustre
5 1 (5.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Ansible
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) Consul
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Salt
3 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) NetApp
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft