Linux Contracts in Dorset

Linux
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 17 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 16 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 8.89% 8.77% 16.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.48% 28.17% 62.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 10
10th Percentile £547 £363 £216
25th Percentile £594 £550 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £731 £700 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +60.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £769 £741 £497
90th Percentile - £750 £519
South West median daily rate £563 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £17.00 £44.47
25th Percentile - £41.51 £47.02
Median hourly rate - £56.08 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +10.46% -
75th Percentile - £57.95 £56.70
90th Percentile - £60.07 £57.50
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +26.21%

All Operating Systems
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 71 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 18.33% 31.14% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 45 25
10th Percentile £175 £160 £167
25th Percentile £175 £288 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +40.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £613 £611 £438
90th Percentile £769 £698 £500
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £42.86
25th Percentile - £17.38 £46.71
Median hourly rate £14.00 £53.35 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -73.76% +9.46% +143.70%
75th Percentile - £57.33 £55.83
90th Percentile - £59.80 £57.34
South West median hourly rate £68.75 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.96% +19.09% +161.90%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 5 - - 1
Poole -1 1 £700 - 2
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 (25.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (25.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) LAN
1 5 (31.25%) WAN
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 4 (25.00%) IPsec
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) 4G
3 3 (18.75%) 5G
3 3 (18.75%) Network Security
3 3 (18.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Military
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Technical Architect
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Communications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Middleware
2 4 (25.00%) JSON
2 4 (25.00%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (25.00%) YAML
3 3 (18.75%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Public Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (18.75%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (31.25%) Business Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) IT Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) TOGAF
2 5 (31.25%) Translating Business Requirements
2 5 (31.25%) Waterfall
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Information Security
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (25.00%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PHP
2 3 (18.75%) C
2 3 (18.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) HND
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) QA
2 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 4 (25.00%) HIPAA
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Sparx