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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 38 26
Rank change year-on-year -29 -12 +25
Contract jobs citing Linux 17 18 44
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.54% 3.30% 5.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.82% 25.35% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 30
10th Percentile £426 £135 £356
25th Percentile £492 £372 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £455 £529
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% -14.04% +17.57%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £571
90th Percentile £573 £546 £589
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -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 123 71 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.12% 13.00% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 53 106
10th Percentile £131 £173 £125
25th Percentile £177 £200 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £244 £391 £338
Median % change year-on-year -37.66% +15.85% -6.90%
75th Percentile £447 £476 £500
90th Percentile £538 £529 £575
England median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 26
10th Percentile £12.98 £14.29 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.09 £14.27
Median hourly rate £19.65 £18.77 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% +10.38% -4.06%
75th Percentile £62.31 £23.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £24.59 £21.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £23.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +105.18% +5.23% -41.21%

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 8 May 2026.

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 8 May 2026. 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
Derbyshire -6 7 - - 4
Nottinghamshire -24 6 £528 +17.22% 10
Northamptonshire -18 3 £525 +12.42% 10
Leicestershire - 1 £540 - 13
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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
1 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
2 3 (17.65%) Artifactory
2 3 (17.65%) Bitbucket
2 3 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (29.41%) Fire and Rescue
1 5 (29.41%) Local Government
1 5 (29.41%) Police
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Automotive
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Help Desk Technician
1 5 (29.41%) ICT Technician
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) DBA
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Database Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) ADO
1 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Driving Licence
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Unix
3 3 (17.65%) CentOS
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (35.29%) Data Protection
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Business Continuity
5 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
5 5 (29.41%) ITIL
5 5 (29.41%) ITSM
5 5 (29.41%) Mathematics
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (17.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) NVQ Level 3
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Istio
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) NetApp
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk