Linux Contracts in Central London

Linux
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 31 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 107 228 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.37% 5.91% 5.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.75% 39.38% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 164 177
10th Percentile £313 £425 £449
25th Percentile £419 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
London median daily rate £565 £625 £611
% change year-on-year -9.60% +2.25% +16.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +42.86% -11.02%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 317 579 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.94% 15.02% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 413 468
10th Percentile £184 £160 £184
25th Percentile £280 £250 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £608
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile £18.93 £18.38 -
25th Percentile £19.51 £22.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +22.45% +75.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.00 £31.38
90th Percentile £25.38 £59.38 £67.25
London median hourly rate £22.00 £37.34 £24.50
% change year-on-year -41.08% +52.41% -42.69%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Central London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Central London

Linux
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -5 104 £575 -11.54% 31
Southwark +5 1 £501 -9.00%
Linux
London

Linux
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.61%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.67%) nginx
3 3 (2.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) IIS
4 2 (1.87%) JBoss
4 2 (1.87%) Luigi
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.93%) SAS
5 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.93%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.93%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.93%) Endur
2 1 (0.93%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.04%) Azure
2 23 (21.50%) AWS
3 11 (10.28%) GitHub
4 9 (8.41%) Azure AKS
5 8 (7.48%) PaaS
6 7 (6.54%) Serverless
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.80%) GCP
10 3 (2.80%) IaaS
10 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.80%) SaaS
11 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.87%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.35%) Firewall
2 5 (4.67%) DNS
3 4 (3.74%) FTP
3 4 (3.74%) Network Security
4 3 (2.80%) SAN
4 3 (2.80%) SSL
5 2 (1.87%) MQTT
5 2 (1.87%) NAS
5 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.87%) VPN
5 2 (1.87%) Wireless
6 1 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.93%) IPv4
6 1 (0.93%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.93%) Junos
6 1 (0.93%) LAN
6 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.02%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.41%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.41%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.48%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.61%) DB2
5 5 (4.67%) MySQL
5 5 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.74%) KDB
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.74%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Git
1 10 (9.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.41%) GitLab
3 6 (5.61%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.67%) JIRA
4 5 (4.67%) JMeter
4 5 (4.67%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.80%) Mockito
5 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.87%) GoCD
6 2 (1.87%) Subversion
7 1 (0.93%) AppScan
7 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.93%) Maven
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.93%) Selenium
7 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.63%) Finance
3 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.08%) Banking
5 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.54%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Front Office
7 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Italian Language
8 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.93%) Back Office
9 1 (0.93%) French Language
9 1 (0.93%) German Language
9 1 (0.93%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.93%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (12.15%) Developer
1 13 (12.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 12 (11.21%) Site Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Analyst
3 10 (9.35%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Python Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Architect
5 7 (6.54%) Implementation Specialist
5 7 (6.54%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Java Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Senior
7 5 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) DBA
8 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Lead
8 4 (3.74%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.50%) Kafka
2 10 (9.35%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (8.41%) React
4 7 (6.54%) RESTful
5 6 (5.61%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (5.61%) HTML
6 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.67%) Node.js
7 4 (3.74%) CSS
7 4 (3.74%) LDAP
8 3 (2.80%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.80%) JAX-RS
8 3 (2.80%) JSON
8 3 (2.80%) Middleware
8 3 (2.80%) pytest
8 3 (2.80%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.80%) XML
9 2 (1.87%) Laravel
9 2 (1.87%) Pandas
9 2 (1.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.28%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (8.41%) Public Cloud
3 9 (8.41%) Replication
4 7 (6.54%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.54%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Machine to Machine
6 3 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.87%) PKI
7 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (36.45%) Windows
2 26 (24.30%) Unix
3 11 (10.28%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.67%) VMS
6 4 (3.74%) CentOS
6 4 (3.74%) Mac OS X
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.87%) Android
8 2 (1.87%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.87%) Solaris
8 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.04%) CI/CD
2 28 (26.17%) DevOps
3 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (15.89%) Microservices
5 16 (14.95%) Agile
6 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (12.15%) Migration
8 13 (12.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (12.15%) Test Automation
9 12 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (11.21%) Task Automation
10 10 (9.35%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.35%) Software Engineering
11 9 (8.41%) Containerisation
12 8 (7.48%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (7.48%) TDD
12 8 (7.48%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (6.54%) Analytical Thinking
13 7 (6.54%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 49 (45.79%) Python
2 21 (19.63%) Java
3 17 (15.89%) SQL
4 15 (14.02%) Shell Script
5 11 (10.28%) C++
5 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.48%) Bash
6 8 (7.48%) C#
7 7 (6.54%) Go
8 6 (5.61%) Perl
9 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.67%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.80%) PHP
11 2 (1.87%) Bicep
12 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.93%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) Degree
4 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.80%) ISEB
6 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.87%) GCIA
6 2 (1.87%) GCIH
6 2 (1.87%) GIAC
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.21%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.93%) MiFID
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (15.89%) Docker
2 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (7.48%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.67%) NFS
5 4 (3.74%) HDFS
5 4 (3.74%) KVM
5 4 (3.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.80%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.93%) Ceph
7 1 (0.93%) iptables
7 1 (0.93%) Lustre
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (29.91%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.56%) Terraform
3 15 (14.02%) Ansible
3 15 (14.02%) Grafana
3 15 (14.02%) Prometheus
4 10 (9.35%) Consul
5 5 (4.67%) Argo
5 5 (4.67%) Puppet
6 3 (2.80%) Nessus
6 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.87%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.87%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.87%) Graylog
7 2 (1.87%) Kibana
7 2 (1.87%) logstash
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.87%) Nagios
7 2 (1.87%) QRadar
7 2 (1.87%) SCCM
7 2 (1.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.08%) Oracle
3 10 (9.35%) IBM
3 10 (9.35%) Red Hat
3 10 (9.35%) SaltStack
4 8 (7.48%) VMware
5 6 (5.61%) Dell
6 5 (4.67%) SAP
6 5 (4.67%) Sun
6 5 (4.67%) Sybase
7 4 (3.74%) Isilon
7 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.74%) Veritas
8 3 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.80%) HP
8 3 (2.80%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.87%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.87%) Cisco
9 2 (1.87%) Juniper
9 2 (1.87%) Temenos