Linux Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 34 30
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 28 37
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.52% 3.85% 4.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.83% 25.69% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 19
10th Percentile £328 £296 £309
25th Percentile £410 £359 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £449 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -18.36% +5.36%
75th Percentile £434 £530 £588
90th Percentile £441 £576 £629
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £31.38
25th Percentile - - £47.21
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 109 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.05% 14.97% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 61 88
10th Percentile £132 £180 £130
25th Percentile £171 £325 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +45.45% -17.29%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £506
90th Percentile £492 £530 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 23
10th Percentile £18.28 £14.65 £12.15
25th Percentile £20.93 £17.58 £14.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +36.46% +10.96%
75th Percentile - £24.74 £20.75
90th Percentile - £58.75 £49.55
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £36.84
% change year-on-year -60.00% +56.08% +47.36%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Linux job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East Midlands

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Northamptonshire -11 9 £420 +1.51% 22
Derbyshire +2 4 £134 -76.35% 11
Linux
England

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) PuTTY
1 3 (23.08%) SSH
1 3 (23.08%) Telnet
2 1 (7.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Hive
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Gradle
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Break Fix Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
3 2 (15.38%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Manager
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Support
4 1 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) OpenVMS
3 4 (30.77%) Windows
4 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 8
5 1 (7.69%) AIX
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Issue Tracking
1 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
1 5 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Break/Fix
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Complex ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
3 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Line Management
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Validation
4 1 (7.69%) Data Management
4 1 (7.69%) Data Validation
4 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) BitLocker
2 3 (23.08%) Firmware
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Dell
2 3 (23.08%) Draytek
2 3 (23.08%) McAfee
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) VMware