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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 20 33 30
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.39% 8.11% 5.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 80.49% 36.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 18
10th Percentile £356 £344 £180
25th Percentile £406 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% - +8.99%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £574
90th Percentile £624 - £658
East of England median daily rate £491 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.68% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £33.48 £48.63 £33.38
25th Percentile £36.83 £50.31 £56.56
Median hourly rate £43.60 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% -23.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £50.33 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £53.64 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +11.54%

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 40 41 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.78% 10.07% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 41
10th Percentile £163 £225 £133
25th Percentile £190 £344 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year -42.03% -9.21% +18.75%
75th Percentile £448 £609 £550
90th Percentile £613 £638 £575
East of England median daily rate £413 £450 £465
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 27
10th Percentile - £48.63 £13.17
25th Percentile £13.00 £50.31 £13.65
Median hourly rate £22.75 £57.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +296.55% -0.62%
75th Percentile £39.28 £63.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £49.22 - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £19.76
% change year-on-year -34.62% +228.91% -49.00%

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 18 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 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 -11 19 £445 +1.71% 26
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 6 (30.00%) OpenStack
2 3 (15.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Weka
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
1 6 (30.00%) SAN
2 5 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 4 (20.00%) Firewall
4 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (10.00%) VLAN
5 2 (10.00%) Wireless
6 1 (5.00%) DHCP
6 1 (5.00%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Multimedia
3 2 (10.00%) Wearables
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Audio Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (15.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Grid Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.00%) Acoustics
4 1 (5.00%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) CentOS
1 6 (30.00%) Ubuntu
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (30.00%) Data Collection
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (25.00%) ITSM
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Inertial Measurement
4 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (20.00%) Validation
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Workload Management
6 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.00%) Data Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Network Management
6 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (25.00%) Bash
4 4 (20.00%) Perl
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Bourne shell
6 1 (5.00%) C++
6 1 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.00%) Docker
4 2 (10.00%) GPFS
4 2 (10.00%) Lustre
4 2 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Consul
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (15.00%) Google
4 3 (15.00%) IBM
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Dell
5 2 (10.00%) Intel
5 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto