Linux Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Linux Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the City of 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 116 126 168
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 3 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.046% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.048% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £450 - £453
25th Percentile £488 £419 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £553
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -20.81% +0.45%
75th Percentile £663 £456 £738
90th Percentile £700 - £749
Central London median daily rate £575 £438 £575
% change year-on-year +31.43% -23.91% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the City of London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the City of London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the City of London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the City of London

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 City of 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 the City of 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