Linux Contract Job Trends in Derby

Linux
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 2.01% 0.93% 3.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 7.14% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £504 - £269
25th Percentile £510 - £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £313
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.92%
75th Percentile £530 - £353
90th Percentile £536 - £366
Derbyshire median daily rate £520 £134 £313
% change year-on-year +288.06% -57.12% -47.92%

All Operating Systems
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 14 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 14.07% 12.96% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 11
10th Percentile £200 £166 £160
25th Percentile £209 £171 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £198 £275
Median % change year-on-year +19.95% -28.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile £519 £284 £388
90th Percentile £549 £438 -
Derbyshire median daily rate £238 £171 £350
% change year-on-year +38.89% -51.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 5
10th Percentile £21.33 £20.97 £19.87
25th Percentile £22.37 £21.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.75 £23.58 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -2.50% +36.46%
75th Percentile - £24.74 -
90th Percentile £25.76 £24.99 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.75 £23.58 £24.18
% change year-on-year +9.23% -2.50% +36.46%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Derby

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (100.00%) IaaS
1 4 (100.00%) PaaS
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Architecture Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Business Case
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft