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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 30 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 109 225 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.52% 5.97% 5.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.94% 39.75% 39.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 159 180
10th Percentile £383 £425 £425
25th Percentile £425 £523 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £645 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £761 £750
London median daily rate £563 £625 £605
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.31% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - +98.80% -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £49.29
% change year-on-year -16.67% +52.16% -1.42%

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 312 566 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.94% 15.01% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 406 474
10th Percentile £181 £161 £183
25th Percentile £279 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.15%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £605
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 16
10th Percentile - £22.60 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +42.86% +76.58%
75th Percentile £24.56 - £36.63
90th Percentile £26.03 £64.25 £64.38
London median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year -45.00% +61.62% -42.44%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -7 105 £600 -7.69% 32
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 (5.50%) nginx
2 5 (4.59%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.83%) IIS
4 2 (1.83%) JBoss
4 2 (1.83%) Luigi
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.83%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.92%) SAS
5 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.92%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.92%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.92%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.92%) Endur
2 1 (0.92%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.92%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.92%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.69%) Azure
2 27 (24.77%) AWS
3 11 (10.09%) GitHub
4 9 (8.26%) Azure AKS
5 8 (7.34%) PaaS
6 7 (6.42%) Serverless
7 6 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.67%) SaaS
10 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.75%) GCP
11 2 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.83%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.17%) Firewall
2 4 (3.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.67%) FTP
2 4 (3.67%) Network Security
2 4 (3.67%) SAN
2 4 (3.67%) SSL
3 3 (2.75%) NAS
4 2 (1.83%) MQTT
4 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.83%) VPN
4 2 (1.83%) Wireless
5 1 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.92%) IPv4
5 1 (0.92%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.92%) Junos
5 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.92%) Multicast
5 1 (0.92%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.68%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.34%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.50%) DB2
5 5 (4.59%) KDB
5 5 (4.59%) MySQL
5 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.67%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.67%) Sybase ASE
7 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.92%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.92%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Git
1 11 (10.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.26%) GitLab
3 6 (5.50%) Cypress.io
3 6 (5.50%) JIRA
4 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.59%) JMeter
4 5 (4.59%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.75%) Mockito
5 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.83%) GoCD
6 2 (1.83%) Subversion
7 1 (0.92%) AppScan
7 1 (0.92%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.92%) Pylint
7 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 33 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.18%) Finance
3 17 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.84%) Banking
5 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.42%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.67%) Front Office
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.92%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.92%) Back Office
10 1 (0.92%) French Language
10 1 (0.92%) German Language
10 1 (0.92%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.92%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Marketing
10 1 (0.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (13.76%) Developer
2 14 (12.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (11.93%) Site Engineer
4 10 (9.17%) Analyst
4 10 (9.17%) Python Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior
8 6 (5.50%) Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Implementation Specialist
9 5 (4.59%) Lead
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.94%) Kafka
2 11 (10.09%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (8.26%) React
4 8 (7.34%) RESTful
5 7 (6.42%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (5.50%) HTML
7 5 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (4.59%) Node.js
8 4 (3.67%) CSS
8 4 (3.67%) LDAP
9 3 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (2.75%) JAX-RS
9 3 (2.75%) JSON
9 3 (2.75%) pytest
9 3 (2.75%) WebSockets
9 3 (2.75%) XML
10 2 (1.83%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.83%) Laravel
10 2 (1.83%) Pandas
10 2 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.51%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.09%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (8.26%) Replication
4 8 (7.34%) Algorithms
4 8 (7.34%) Data Structures
4 8 (7.34%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Machine to Machine
6 3 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.75%) PKI
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.92%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.94%) Windows
2 27 (24.77%) Unix
3 11 (10.09%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.59%) VMS
6 4 (3.67%) CentOS
6 4 (3.67%) Mac OS X
7 3 (2.75%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.83%) Android
8 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.83%) Solaris
8 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.28%) CI/CD
2 31 (28.44%) DevOps
3 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.51%) Agile
4 18 (16.51%) Microservices
5 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (13.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (11.93%) Migration
7 13 (11.93%) Task Automation
7 13 (11.93%) Test Automation
8 12 (11.01%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (10.09%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.17%) Software Engineering
11 9 (8.26%) Containerisation
11 9 (8.26%) TDD
12 8 (7.34%) Analytical Thinking
12 8 (7.34%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (6.42%) Computer Science
13 7 (6.42%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.87%) Python
2 24 (22.02%) Java
3 18 (16.51%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) Shell Script
5 12 (11.01%) C++
6 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.34%) Bash
7 8 (7.34%) C#
8 7 (6.42%) Go
9 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.59%) Perl
9 5 (4.59%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.75%) PHP
11 2 (1.83%) Bicep
12 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) Degree
3 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.67%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.75%) ISEB
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.83%) GCIA
7 2 (1.83%) GCIH
7 2 (1.83%) GIAC
8 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.09%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.92%) MiFID
2 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (16.51%) Docker
2 12 (11.01%) Active Directory
3 11 (10.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (7.34%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.59%) NFS
5 5 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.67%) HDFS
6 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (2.75%) KVM
8 2 (1.83%) vSphere
9 1 (0.92%) Ceph
9 1 (0.92%) iptables
9 1 (0.92%) Lustre
9 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (30.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (19.27%) Terraform
3 17 (15.60%) Grafana
3 17 (15.60%) Prometheus
4 15 (13.76%) Ansible
5 12 (11.01%) Consul
6 5 (4.59%) Argo
6 5 (4.59%) Puppet
7 3 (2.75%) Nessus
7 3 (2.75%) Packer
7 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.75%) SCCM
8 2 (1.83%) CSIRT
8 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.83%) Graylog
8 2 (1.83%) Kibana
8 2 (1.83%) logstash
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.83%) Nagios
8 2 (1.83%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.93%) Oracle
3 11 (10.09%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.09%) SaltStack
4 10 (9.17%) IBM
5 9 (8.26%) VMware
6 5 (4.59%) Dell
6 5 (4.59%) SAP
6 5 (4.59%) Sun
6 5 (4.59%) Sybase
7 4 (3.67%) Isilon
7 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.67%) Veritas
8 3 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.75%) HP
8 3 (2.75%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.83%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.83%) Cisco
9 2 (1.83%) Juniper
9 2 (1.83%) Temenos