Linux Contracts in Central London

Linux
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 40 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 100 113 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.24% 4.72% 5.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 36.22% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 75 145
10th Percentile £413 £383 £454
25th Percentile £506 £425 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -7.69% +11.11%
75th Percentile £693 £708 £705
90th Percentile £750 £775 £766
London median daily rate £580 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +5.45% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £50.88
25th Percentile - - £55.94
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £75.94
90th Percentile - - £80.63
London median hourly rate £44.50 £62.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year -28.80% -11.97% +56.04%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 250 312 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.11% 13.04% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 220 381
10th Percentile £244 £195 £160
25th Percentile £350 £308 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £663
90th Percentile £711 £726 £738
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £22.00 - £28.00
25th Percentile £23.13 £21.25 £32.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -45.88% +65.05%
75th Percentile £69.56 £27.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £140.33 £28.43 £74.38
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.09% -56.00% +108.33%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 0 91 £631 +1.00% 49
City of Westminster +4 4 £650 +62.50% 3
West End of London - 3 £650 - 11
Camden - 1 £580 -
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 7 (7.00%) Apache
1 7 (7.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.00%) Confluence
3 4 (4.00%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.00%) SAS
4 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.00%) CMS
5 2 (2.00%) IIS
6 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (1.00%) Documentum
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.00%) nginx
6 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Sage X3
2 1 (1.00%) Actimize
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.00%) AWS
2 23 (23.00%) Azure
3 14 (14.00%) GCP
4 8 (8.00%) GitHub
5 5 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 4 (4.00%) Serverless
6 4 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.00%) IaaS
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.00%) OCI
7 3 (3.00%) PaaS
7 3 (3.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.00%) DNS
2 8 (8.00%) Firewall
3 7 (7.00%) VPN
4 5 (5.00%) SSH
4 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.00%) DHCP
5 4 (4.00%) HTTP
6 3 (3.00%) SAN
7 2 (2.00%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.00%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.00%) Internet
8 1 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.00%) Multicast
8 1 (1.00%) NAS
8 1 (1.00%) WAN
8 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.00%) MySQL
4 5 (5.00%) Power BI
5 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.00%) Apache Hive
5 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.00%) Base SAS
6 3 (3.00%) Big Data
6 3 (3.00%) DB2
6 3 (3.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.00%) KDB
6 3 (3.00%) Metadata
7 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (23.00%) Git
2 15 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.00%) JIRA
4 7 (7.00%) GitLab
5 4 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (4.00%) JUnit
5 4 (4.00%) RStudio
6 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.00%) Subversion
6 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.00%) JMeter
7 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.00%) Gatling
8 1 (1.00%) Hamcrest
8 1 (1.00%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.00%) Selenium
8 1 (1.00%) Serena SBM
General
1 35 (35.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.00%) Banking
5 9 (9.00%) Front Office
6 5 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Advertising
8 2 (2.00%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Games
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.00%) International Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (19.00%) Developer
2 10 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 10 (10.00%) Senior
3 8 (8.00%) Architect
3 8 (8.00%) Lead
4 6 (6.00%) Analyst
5 5 (5.00%) Consultant
5 5 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Python Developer
6 4 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.00%) Team Leader
7 3 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (3.00%) C# Developer
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (3.00%) Senior Architect
7 3 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (3.00%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) Spring
2 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (5.00%) YAML
3 4 (4.00%) HTML
3 4 (4.00%) JSON
3 4 (4.00%) Kafka
3 4 (4.00%) pydantic
3 4 (4.00%) PySpark
3 4 (4.00%) React
3 4 (4.00%) RESTful
3 4 (4.00%) Web Services
3 4 (4.00%) WPF
4 3 (3.00%) Node.js
5 2 (2.00%) HTML5
5 2 (2.00%) LDAP
5 2 (2.00%) Middleware
5 2 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (8.00%) Fixed Income
3 7 (7.00%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.00%) Social Media
5 5 (5.00%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.00%) Reference Data
7 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.00%) Equities
7 3 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.00%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (33.00%) Windows
2 29 (29.00%) Unix
3 6 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.00%) AIX
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle Linux
4 3 (3.00%) Rocky
5 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.00%) CentOS
5 2 (2.00%) Solaris
6 1 (1.00%) Android
6 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.00%) SUSE
6 1 (1.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (33.00%) DevOps
3 27 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.00%) Agile
5 16 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 16 (16.00%) Migration
6 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (13.00%) Configuration Management
7 13 (13.00%) Electronic Trading
8 12 (12.00%) Low Latency
9 10 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (10.00%) SDLC
9 10 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.00%) High Availability
11 8 (8.00%) Algorithmic Trading
11 8 (8.00%) Market Making
11 8 (8.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 8 (8.00%) Scrum
12 7 (7.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (47.00%) Python
2 31 (31.00%) Java
3 18 (18.00%) Bash
4 16 (16.00%) SQL
5 15 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 11 (11.00%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.00%) C#
8 7 (7.00%) Perl
8 7 (7.00%) Scala
9 6 (6.00%) C++
9 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
10 5 (5.00%) C
11 3 (3.00%) Go
11 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.00%) Bicep
12 2 (2.00%) PROC SQL
12 2 (2.00%) SAS Macro
13 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.00%) Ruby
13 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.00%) Degree
4 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (2.00%) CASP
6 2 (2.00%) CCSP
6 2 (2.00%) CISSP
6 2 (2.00%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.00%) CSSLP
6 2 (2.00%) GIAC
7 1 (1.00%) CCNA
7 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) GDPR
2 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.00%) NIST
2 3 (3.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (2.00%) NCSC
3 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (18.00%) Docker
2 9 (9.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.00%) NFS
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.00%) Veritas File System
6 1 (1.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (24.00%) Terraform
2 19 (19.00%) Ansible
2 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.00%) Kibana
4 6 (6.00%) Grafana
4 6 (6.00%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.00%) Puppet
5 3 (3.00%) Consul
5 3 (3.00%) Control-M
6 2 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.00%) Podman
6 2 (2.00%) QRadar
6 2 (2.00%) SELinux
6 2 (2.00%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.00%) logstash
7 1 (1.00%) Packer
7 1 (1.00%) Rancher
7 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Oracle
3 8 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.00%) VMware
5 6 (6.00%) Splunk
6 5 (5.00%) CyberArk
7 4 (4.00%) Databricks
7 4 (4.00%) Sybase
8 3 (3.00%) Google
8 3 (3.00%) IBM
8 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (2.00%) BMC
9 2 (2.00%) Citrix
9 2 (2.00%) HP
9 2 (2.00%) Qualys
9 2 (2.00%) Sage
9 2 (2.00%) Sun
10 1 (1.00%) Nexthink
10 1 (1.00%) Tenable