Linux Contract Job Trends in Devon

Linux
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 23 17
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 1.32% 10.36% 6.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.76% 58.97% 60.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 17
10th Percentile - £316 £463
25th Percentile - £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% +0.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £600 £575
90th Percentile - £672 -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £553
% change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.91%

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 17 39 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 11.26% 17.57% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 26
10th Percentile £185 £188 £163
25th Percentile - £317 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £280 £605 £575
90th Percentile £367 £664 £638
South West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Devon

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Linux

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 14 December 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 -2 1 - - 7
Plymouth -3 1 £700 +47.37% 9
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium