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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 26 40
Rank change year-on-year -30 +14 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Linux 13 45 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.69% 5.92% 3.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.13% 26.95% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 14
10th Percentile £247 £304 £350
25th Percentile £350 £356 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £498 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% -11.47% +23.63%
75th Percentile £475 £552 £625
90th Percentile £478 £588 £643
England median daily rate £525 £542 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -5.70% -2.54%
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% +4.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 92 167 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.95% 21.97% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 100 91
10th Percentile £150 £150 £122
25th Percentile £200 £205 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £394 £300
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% +31.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £531
90th Percentile £488 £576 £645
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 17
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £12.20
25th Percentile £18.91 £13.52 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% +1.58% -4.22%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £21.50
90th Percentile - £51.91 £42.25
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £41.41
% change year-on-year -26.15% -21.52% +73.20%

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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -18 6 £420 +12.00% 9
Derbyshire +1 5 £217 -62.26% 4
Nottinghamshire -3 2 £450 -40.00% 8
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 (15.38%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
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 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) PuTTY
1 3 (23.08%) SSH
1 3 (23.08%) Telnet
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) SMTP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Break Fix Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Consultant
1 2 (15.38%) Linux Consultant
1 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
2 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Network Support
2 1 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 8
4 2 (15.38%) OpenVMS
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (7.69%) AIX
5 1 (7.69%) CentOS
5 1 (7.69%) Rocky
5 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (23.08%) Break/Fix
3 2 (15.38%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
3 2 (15.38%) Data Management
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (15.38%) Line Management
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Agile
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL
4 1 (7.69%) Migration
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Firmware
3 3 (23.08%) BitLocker
4 2 (15.38%) Docker
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Podman
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 3 (23.08%) Dell
2 3 (23.08%) Draytek
2 3 (23.08%) McAfee
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk