Linux Contracts in Cumbria

Linux
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 30 38 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 9 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 4.62% 0.77% 7.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 6.06% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £263 £514 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £528 £426
Median % change year-on-year -47.92% +23.94% -
75th Percentile £288 £542 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £510 £450 £530
% change year-on-year +13.31% -15.09% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.76 - -
25th Percentile £74.10 £70.20 -
Median hourly rate £80.59 £75.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% - -
75th Percentile £84.48 £80.59 -
90th Percentile £85.26 - -
North West median hourly rate £80.59 £48.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +67.89% +20.00% -10.99%

All Operating Systems
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 33 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 13.85% 12.74% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £238 £296 £425
25th Percentile £360 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £426
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +10.33% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £476 £432
90th Percentile - £516 £443
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 28 0
10th Percentile £71.76 - -
25th Percentile £74.10 - -
Median hourly rate £80.59 £10.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +635.96% - -
75th Percentile £84.48 - -
90th Percentile £85.26 £11.32 -
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cumbria

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cumbria

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cumbria

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cumbria 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
Barrow-in-Furness +5 8 - -
Carlisle - 1 £275 - 1
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) NAS
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) AIX
2 2 (22.22%) CentOS
2 2 (22.22%) HPUX
2 2 (22.22%) Solaris
2 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 3 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (22.22%) Demand Management
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Information Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
2 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) KVM
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SELinux
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
2 2 (22.22%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco