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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 0.91% 6.42% 6.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.69% 27.91% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £313 £338
25th Percentile £275 £520 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +19.79% +37.14%
75th Percentile £325 £588 £553
90th Percentile - £600 £630
East Midlands median daily rate £455 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -9.10% +4.17% -4.00%

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 13 43 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 11.82% 22.99% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 26
10th Percentile £168 £149 £116
25th Percentile £170 £150 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £325
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% +36.84%
75th Percentile - £511 £477
90th Percentile £300 £588 £569
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - - £18.05
25th Percentile - £17.00 £18.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% +0.70% -9.73%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £21.68
90th Percentile - - £22.47
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £14.72 £20.50
% change year-on-year +70.86% -28.20% +2.50%

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 20 July 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 -7 1 £300 -47.83% 4
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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) VMware