Linux Contracts in Derbyshire

Linux
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 15 15 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 4.12% 7.06% 3.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 22.64% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £313 £331
25th Percentile £275 £520 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £575 £440
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +30.68% +95.56%
75th Percentile £325 £588 £480
90th Percentile - £600 £559
East Midlands median daily rate £455 £529 £450
% change year-on-year -14.04% +17.57% -10.06%

All Operating Systems
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12 53 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 12.37% 31.18% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 35 39
10th Percentile £168 £135 £107
25th Percentile £171 £148 £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £160 £325
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -50.77% -
75th Percentile - £331 £434
90th Percentile £238 £588 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 7
10th Percentile - £17.00 £11.28
25th Percentile - £17.70 £11.80
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% +29.03% -22.50%
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - £23.00 £20.45
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Derbyshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Derbyshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Derbyshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Derbyshire 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
Derby +1 4 £300 -47.83% 6
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Information Assurance Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Industry 4.0
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Information Assurance
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISA
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
1 3 (75.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) VMware