Linux Engineer Contracts in Central London

Linux Engineer
London > Central London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Central London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 132 161
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 3 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.041% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.043% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £450 - £453
25th Percentile £488 £419 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -23.91% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £456 £738
90th Percentile £700 - £745
London median daily rate £520 £544 £600
% change year-on-year -4.37% -9.38% +2.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Central London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Central London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Central London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in Central London

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +10 3 £575 +31.43% 7
Linux Engineer
London

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) RHCE
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) SUSE
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) SUSE
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat