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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 35 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 116 214 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.80% 5.83% 5.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.94% 39.41% 40.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 144 160
10th Percentile £383 £451 £413
25th Percentile £450 £536 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £648 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +10.68% +6.36%
75th Percentile £710 £705 £675
90th Percentile £779 £768 £751
London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £66.25 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - +59.64% -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £71.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year -11.97% +56.04% -16.51%

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 314 543 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.98% 14.80% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 377 430
10th Percentile £206 £156 £175
25th Percentile £350 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £600
90th Percentile £750 £738 £689
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile - £28.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +65.05% +80.70%
75th Percentile £27.00 £60.31 £39.88
90th Percentile £28.43 £74.38 £59.25
London median hourly rate £22.00 £48.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -54.87% +103.89% -40.23%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -8 110 £625 -3.85% 29
City of Westminster -3 4 £563 -10.00% 3
Southwark +7 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 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.45%) nginx
2 3 (2.59%) Apache
3 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.72%) JBoss
3 2 (1.72%) Luigi
3 2 (1.72%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.86%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.86%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.86%) Endur
2 1 (0.86%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.86%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.86%) Azure
2 27 (23.28%) AWS
3 13 (11.21%) GitHub
4 9 (7.76%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.03%) PaaS
5 7 (6.03%) Serverless
6 6 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.31%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (4.31%) SaaS
8 4 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.59%) GCP
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.72%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.34%) Firewall
2 4 (3.45%) FTP
2 4 (3.45%) Network Security
2 4 (3.45%) SSL
3 3 (2.59%) SAN
4 2 (1.72%) DNS
4 2 (1.72%) Internet
4 2 (1.72%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.72%) MQTT
4 2 (1.72%) NAS
4 2 (1.72%) SSH
4 2 (1.72%) WAN
4 2 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.86%) HTTP
5 1 (0.86%) IPv4
5 1 (0.86%) Multicast
5 1 (0.86%) Skype
5 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.79%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.48%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.76%) DB2
4 9 (7.76%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.03%) MySQL
6 6 (5.17%) KDB
6 6 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.31%) Sybase ASE
8 4 (3.45%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.86%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.86%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) GitLab
1 13 (11.21%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.76%) Git
3 7 (6.03%) Cypress.io
3 7 (6.03%) JIRA
4 5 (4.31%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.31%) JMeter
4 5 (4.31%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.59%) Mockito
5 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.72%) GoCD
6 2 (1.72%) Postman
6 2 (1.72%) Subversion
7 1 (0.86%) AppScan
7 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.86%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.86%) Pylint
7 1 (0.86%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.55%) Finance
3 19 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.52%) Banking
5 10 (8.62%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.17%) Front Office
7 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) French Language
10 1 (0.86%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.86%) Aviation
10 1 (0.86%) Back Office
10 1 (0.86%) German Language
10 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.86%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.86%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (15.52%) Developer
2 15 (12.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) Site Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Python Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Senior
8 7 (6.03%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Implementation Specialist
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Architect
10 5 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.00%) Kafka
2 12 (10.34%) RESTful
3 11 (9.48%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (7.76%) React
5 6 (5.17%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (5.17%) HTML
6 5 (4.31%) Node.js
7 4 (3.45%) JSON
7 4 (3.45%) LDAP
7 4 (3.45%) Middleware
8 3 (2.59%) .NET
8 3 (2.59%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.59%) CSS
8 3 (2.59%) JAX-RS
8 3 (2.59%) Pandas
8 3 (2.59%) pytest
8 3 (2.59%) REST
8 3 (2.59%) Spring
8 3 (2.59%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.48%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.48%) Data Structures
2 11 (9.48%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (7.76%) Replication
4 7 (6.03%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.03%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.45%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.45%) Machine to Machine
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.72%) Clustering
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.72%) PKI
8 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 43 (37.07%) Windows
2 26 (22.41%) Unix
3 11 (9.48%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.45%) Mac OS X
6 3 (2.59%) Android
6 3 (2.59%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.72%) CentOS
7 2 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.72%) Solaris
7 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.72%) VMS
7 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.72%) zOS
8 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.86%) Rocky
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.76%) DevOps
2 35 (30.17%) CI/CD
3 27 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.10%) Agile
4 21 (18.10%) Microservices
5 19 (16.38%) Task Automation
6 18 (15.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (11.21%) Test Automation
10 11 (9.48%) Analytical Thinking
11 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (8.62%) Migration
11 10 (8.62%) Software Engineering
11 10 (8.62%) TDD
12 9 (7.76%) Computer Science
12 9 (7.76%) Containerisation
12 9 (7.76%) Incident Management
13 8 (6.90%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 53 (45.69%) Python
2 29 (25.00%) Java
3 21 (18.10%) Shell Script
3 21 (18.10%) SQL
4 14 (12.07%) C++
5 11 (9.48%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.76%) Bash
6 9 (7.76%) Go
7 8 (6.90%) Perl
7 8 (6.90%) T-SQL
8 6 (5.17%) C#
9 5 (4.31%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.59%) PHP
11 2 (1.72%) Bicep
12 1 (0.86%) JCL
12 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.86%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.34%) Degree
3 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.45%) GCIA
5 4 (3.45%) GCIH
5 4 (3.45%) GIAC
6 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.72%) ISEB
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.21%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.72%) COBIT
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (18.97%) Docker
2 12 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 10 (8.62%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.17%) NFS
6 5 (4.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (3.45%) HDFS
8 3 (2.59%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.59%) KVM
9 1 (0.86%) Ceph
9 1 (0.86%) iptables
9 1 (0.86%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (31.90%) Kubernetes
2 21 (18.10%) Terraform
3 17 (14.66%) Grafana
3 17 (14.66%) Prometheus
4 14 (12.07%) Ansible
5 12 (10.34%) Consul
6 5 (4.31%) Argo
6 5 (4.31%) Nessus
6 5 (4.31%) Puppet
7 4 (3.45%) CSIRT
7 4 (3.45%) QRadar
8 3 (2.59%) Nagios
8 3 (2.59%) Packer
8 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.59%) SCCM
9 2 (1.72%) CASB
9 2 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.72%) Graylog
9 2 (1.72%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (26.72%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.66%) Oracle
3 11 (9.48%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.48%) SaltStack
4 10 (8.62%) IBM
4 10 (8.62%) VMware
5 9 (7.76%) ServiceNow
6 6 (5.17%) SAP
6 6 (5.17%) Sun
6 6 (5.17%) Sybase
7 5 (4.31%) Veritas
8 4 (3.45%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (3.45%) Dell
8 4 (3.45%) Isilon
9 3 (2.59%) HP
9 3 (2.59%) Splunk
9 3 (2.59%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.72%) Imperva
10 2 (1.72%) ION Trading