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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 43 21
Rank change year-on-year +18 -22 +18
Contract jobs citing Linux 19 15 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.74% 2.82% 6.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.78% 31.91% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 20
10th Percentile £313 - £180
25th Percentile £413 £235 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £494
90th Percentile £618 £670 £564
East of England median daily rate £473 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -14.09% +15.79% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - - £49.38
25th Percentile - £51.25 £51.25
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 £62.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%

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 36 47 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.77% 8.85% 22.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 65
10th Percentile £180 £159 £150
25th Percentile £250 £200 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £245 £413
Median % change year-on-year +73.47% -40.61% -2.94%
75th Percentile £470 £499 £488
90th Percentile £588 £638 £516
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 33
10th Percentile - £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile - - £13.29
Median hourly rate £13.00 £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £18.88
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.56 £57.50 £18.26
% change year-on-year -60.77% +214.98% -16.07%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +12 17 £430 -19.25% 138
Huntingdon - 1 - - 2
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 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) SAN
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 4 (21.05%) iSCSI
3 4 (21.05%) LAN
3 4 (21.05%) NAS
3 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (21.05%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security
4 1 (5.26%) SNMP
4 1 (5.26%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Artifactory
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Administrator
2 7 (36.84%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps Administrator
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) C++ Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer in Test
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Linux Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) IT Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) IT Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (21.05%) Virtual Team
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) FPGA
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.26%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Ubuntu
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 4 (21.05%) CentOS
4 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
2 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (26.32%) Problem Management
3 4 (21.05%) Change Management
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) ITSM
3 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Resource Management
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
4 3 (15.79%) Workload Management
5 2 (10.53%) Data Science
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
3 4 (21.05%) Bash
4 3 (15.79%) Perl
5 2 (10.53%) C++
5 2 (10.53%) Groovy
6 1 (5.26%) C-shell
6 1 (5.26%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (5.26%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Firmware
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Consul
3 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Nagios
3 1 (5.26%) Podman
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Red Hat
2 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 4 (21.05%) NetApp
4 3 (15.79%) Google
4 3 (15.79%) HP
4 3 (15.79%) IBM
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.53%) SAP
6 1 (5.26%) Dell
6 1 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.26%) Sun
6 1 (5.26%) Xilinx