Linux Contracts in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 38 28 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 18 44 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.36% 5.69% 3.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.71% 25.88% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 22
10th Percentile £135 £356 £351
25th Percentile £372 £434 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £529 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +17.57% -10.06%
75th Percentile £500 £571 £547
90th Percentile £546 £589 £634
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 70 170 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 21.99% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 102 148
10th Percentile £173 £122 £125
25th Percentile £200 £150 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £476 £504 £538
90th Percentile £530 £575 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 29
10th Percentile £14.29 £12.75 £11.69
25th Percentile £15.09 £14.27 £12.70
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £24.59 £21.88 £29.23
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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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 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
Nottinghamshire +11 7 £450 - 21
Northamptonshire -9 5 £467 +28.83% 9
Derbyshire 0 4 £300 -47.83% 10
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (11.11%) SAN
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
3 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) NetBeans
3 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Legal
2 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Information Assurance Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Information Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) POSIX
1 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Ubuntu
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.11%) Debian
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.56%) CentOS
5 1 (5.56%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (16.67%) Information Assurance
5 3 (16.67%) Information Security
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.11%) Data Science
6 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) C++
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
3 2 (11.11%) Scala
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) CISA
3 3 (16.67%) CISM
3 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 3 (16.67%) GIAC
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
1 3 (16.67%) NIST 800
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) MISRA
2 2 (11.11%) MISRA C
2 2 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.56%) IEC 61508
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Kibana
3 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
4 2 (11.11%) Databricks
4 2 (11.11%) QNX
4 2 (11.11%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Google