Linux Contracts in Devon

Linux
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 21 27 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.87% 3.64% 3.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 23.26% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 5
10th Percentile £439 £515 £674
25th Percentile £478 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -14.81% +27.36%
75th Percentile £616 £600 -
90th Percentile £651 - £715
South West median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +0.77%

All Operating Systems
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 43 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 5.61% 15.64% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 39 25
10th Percentile £184 £129 £126
25th Percentile £194 £143 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £175 £350
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £497 £575 £600
90th Percentile £604 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate £11.91 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.15% +20.00% +176.01%
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Devon

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Devon

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Devon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Devon

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Devon

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Devon 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
Exeter +10 1 £425 -29.17% 8
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Scientific Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow