Linux Contracts in Croydon

Linux
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 27 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 6 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 6.25% 4.92% 28.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 37.50% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 42
10th Percentile £447 £483 £496
25th Percentile £448 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% -7.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £499 £531 £675
90th Percentile £500 £544 £725
South London median daily rate £474 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -7.20% -7.18% -8.33%

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 10 16 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 12.50% 13.11% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 49
10th Percentile £223 £425 £474
25th Percentile £381 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% -7.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £499 £567 £675
90th Percentile £502 - £725
South London median daily rate £460 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -1.08% -7.00% -6.98%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Croydon

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Croydon

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Croydon

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (60.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) GIS
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (20.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) jMock
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) Keycloak
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (40.00%) GitOps
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Open Source
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Server Management
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Istio
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Rancher
3 1 (20.00%) SELinux
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft