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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 34 38
Rank change year-on-year -29 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing Linux 12 37 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.53% 4.72% 3.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.63% 25.69% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 18
10th Percentile £247 £281 £339
25th Percentile £350 £381 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £498 £555
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% -10.27% +16.84%
75th Percentile £475 £544 £616
90th Percentile £478 £595 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
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 95 144 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.10% 18.37% 18.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 83 90
10th Percentile £137 £160 £129
25th Percentile £203 £268 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £475 £499 £534
90th Percentile £490 £541 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 22
10th Percentile £15.66 £12.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £23.99 £13.52 £14.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.32 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% +3.39% +0.91%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile - £38.68 £23.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £46.69
% change year-on-year -56.07% +22.62% +95.27%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -13 6 £420 -4.55% 9
Derbyshire -3 5 £217 -61.08% 11
Nottinghamshire -6 1 £450 -40.00% 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 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) PuTTY
1 3 (25.00%) SSH
1 3 (25.00%) Telnet
2 1 (8.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (8.33%) Gradle
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Break Fix Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Support
3 1 (8.33%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) OpenVMS
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Break/Fix
1 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
1 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (16.67%) Data Management
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Line Management
2 2 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (8.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
1 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (25.00%) Firmware
3 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Kibana
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Podman
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) Dell
2 3 (25.00%) Draytek
2 3 (25.00%) McAfee
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk