Linux Contracts in County Antrim

Linux
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 6.25% 8.43% 10.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 33.33% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 9
10th Percentile £386 - £408
25th Percentile £439 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £514 £625 £538
90th Percentile £528 £650 £588
Northern Ireland median daily rate £494 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +23.44% -20.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.63 - -
Median hourly rate £31.25 - -
75th Percentile £31.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £31.25 - -

All Operating Systems
County Antrim

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 County Antrim with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 24 42 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 18.75% 25.30% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 29
10th Percentile £181 £156 -
25th Percentile £245 £174 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -5.88% -1.56%
75th Percentile £530 - £488
90th Percentile £575 £645 £508
Northern Ireland median daily rate £469 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +17.19% -5.88% -1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £14.15 £11.10
25th Percentile - £14.74 £11.63
Median hourly rate £12.25 £17.61 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.44% +35.46% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £20.37 £15.56
90th Percentile - £20.90 £16.79
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £12.25 £17.61 £13.00
% change year-on-year -30.44% +35.46% -7.14%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in County Antrim

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Linux in County Antrim

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in County Antrim over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in County Antrim

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in County Antrim.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in County Antrim

Linux
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 6 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
Belfast -2 6 £494 +23.44% 2
Linux
Northern Ireland

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Impala
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) NUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) FPGA
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Mechatronics
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (25.00%) System Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Scala
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft