Linux Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Linux Engineer
England > East of England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £368, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 81 96
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 2 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.15% 1.01% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 1.13% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile £339 - £438
25th Percentile £349 £525 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £550 £619
Median % change year-on-year -33.18% -11.11% +37.50%
75th Percentile £384 £575 £675
90th Percentile £394 - -
England median daily rate £521 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.23% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £67.88
25th Percentile - £61.25 £68.44
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year - -12.28% +18.75%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £73.44
90th Percentile - - £73.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £71.25
% change year-on-year +8.80% -12.28% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,123 1,330 1,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.56% 89.14% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 540 975
10th Percentile £190 £205 £196
25th Percentile £363 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -0.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £626 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 309 272
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £31.20 £43.90 £34.22
Median % change year-on-year -28.93% +28.29% +72.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.15 £83.93
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.94
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.44% +74.23%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Hertfordshire -16 1 £335 -39.09% 1
Suffolk - 1 £400 -
Essex - 1 £335 -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle