Linux Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Linux
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Linux 15 0 24
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 16.48% - 14.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.24% - 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 22
10th Percentile £511 - £434
25th Percentile £565 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 - £600
75th Percentile £710 - £638
90th Percentile £718 - £675
South London median daily rate £525 £300 £575
% change year-on-year +75.00% -47.83% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 2 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 18.68% 1.77% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 27
10th Percentile £373 £470 £388
25th Percentile £498 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £507 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -9.96% -6.25%
75th Percentile £683 £525 £638
90th Percentile £717 £533 £675
South London median daily rate £425 £325 £463
% change year-on-year +30.77% -29.73% -19.57%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Linux job vacancy trend in Croydon

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Croydon over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Croydon

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (93.33%) Confluence
1 14 (93.33%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 10 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (66.67%) Route 53
2 10 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
1 10 (66.67%) FTP
1 10 (66.67%) HTTP
1 10 (66.67%) IMAP
1 10 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (66.67%) SMTP
1 10 (66.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Git
1 14 (93.33%) JIRA
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (66.67%) Vagrant
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) AWS DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) JIRA Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 10 (66.67%) VMS
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 10 (66.67%) Change Management
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 10 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 10 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 10 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) Budget Management
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum
4 1 (6.67%) SFIA
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 10 (66.67%) Groovy
2 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) SC Cleared
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Docker
2 10 (66.67%) DFS Replication
2 10 (66.67%) Dovecot
2 10 (66.67%) Postfix
2 10 (66.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 14 (93.33%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Grafana
2 10 (66.67%) Nessus
2 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 10 (66.67%) Proxmox
3 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (20.00%) Consul
4 3 (20.00%) Packer
5 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian