Linux Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Linux
North West > Cumbria

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 3.79% 2.02% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.25% 36.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile £408 - -
North West median daily rate £429 £518 £513
% change year-on-year -17.15% +0.98% +2.50%

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 16 11 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 12.12% 5.56% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £195 £119 £174
25th Percentile £200 £133 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £155 £435
Median % change year-on-year +158.06% -64.37% +1.87%
75th Percentile £455 £178 £471
90th Percentile £690 £191 £471
North West median daily rate £366 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -13.88% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.08% -19.42% -44.55%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Linux

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 6 November 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 5 £403 - 1
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) SNMP
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (80.00%) Server Building
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk