Linux Contracts in East London

Linux
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 18 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 1.90% 4.33% 3.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.33% 23.81% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - £420 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £458 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% -39.00% +44.23%
75th Percentile - £623 £875
90th Percentile - £709 £1,000
London median daily rate £588 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +3.98% -9.60% +2.04%

All Operating Systems
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 42 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 14.29% 18.18% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 38
10th Percentile £243 £165 £175
25th Percentile £250 £313 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £540 £534
90th Percentile - £770 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% +16.22% -15.04%
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in East London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in East London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in East London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the East London 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
Tower Hamlets +10 1 - -
Linux
London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (50.00%) Toad
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EDI
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce
1 1 (50.00%) SkyKick