Linux Contracts in the City of Westminster

Linux
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 4.55% - 16.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £591 - £556
25th Percentile £597 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £625
75th Percentile £672 - £850
90th Percentile £674 - -
Central London median daily rate £640 £575 £641
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.33% +11.52%

All Operating Systems
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2 2 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 4.55% 4.55% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile £591 £355 £203
25th Percentile £597 £363 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £388
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% +3.23% +63.16%
75th Percentile £672 £438 £638
90th Percentile £674 £445 £829
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the City of Westminster

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the City of Westminster

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 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
Mayfair - 2 £638 -
Linux
Central London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft