Linux Contracts in Dorset

Linux
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 14 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 8.54% 9.68% 14.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.28% 26.92% 54.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £481 £282 £313
25th Percentile £552 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +39.74% +14.71% -24.44%
75th Percentile £769 £631 £465
90th Percentile - £638 £488
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 8
10th Percentile - £17.00 £44.20
25th Percentile - £48.78 £46.52
Median hourly rate - £54.09 £49.76
Median % change year-on-year - +8.71% -
75th Percentile - £57.33 £56.25
90th Percentile - £59.89 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Dorset

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 29 78 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 17.68% 35.94% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 49 20
10th Percentile £175 £160 £158
25th Percentile £175 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £189 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year -57.93% +16.13% +3.33%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £458
90th Percentile £769 £613 £550
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 17
10th Percentile - £17.04 £33.40
25th Percentile - £17.31 £45.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £51.13 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -72.62% +4.90% +261.04%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £55.65
90th Percentile - £59.06 £56.60
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.80% +118.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Dorset over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Dorset

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Bournemouth 0 4 - - 6
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 4 (28.57%) Apache Solr
1 4 (28.57%) nginx
2 1 (7.14%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) HTTPS
1 5 (35.71%) IPsec
1 5 (35.71%) Network Security
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (28.57%) 4G
2 4 (28.57%) 5G
2 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) LAN
2 4 (28.57%) VoIP
2 4 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) FTP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) tcpdump
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Couchbase
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 2 (14.29%) Military
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Communications Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) JSON
1 4 (28.57%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (28.57%) Middleware
1 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (28.57%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) CentOS
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Information Security
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Network Management
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
4 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) HND
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) QA
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) HIPAA
2 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Samba
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Sparx
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) VMware