Linux Contracts in the East of England

Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 28 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 69 119 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.36% 6.23% 7.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.59% 52.42% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 62 94
10th Percentile £400 £277 £260
25th Percentile £415 £313 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £433 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -3.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £613
90th Percentile £613 £675 £631
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 17
10th Percentile £34.96 £51.25 £49.75
25th Percentile £52.19 £55.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £58.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £66.05 - £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 170 227 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.12% 11.89% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 127 333
10th Percentile £178 £175 £160
25th Percentile £208 £238 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £575
90th Percentile £561 £650 £700
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 65
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.72 -
25th Percentile £19.22 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%
75th Percentile £65.38 £64.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £84.75 £66.25 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the East of England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the East of England

Linux
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 within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +4 41 £519 -5.68% 48
Cambridgeshire +15 16 £430 -2.27% 154
Essex -3 8 £400 +8.11% 34
Bedfordshire 0 2 - - 11
Suffolk -7 1 £751 +300.53% 6
Norfolk - 1 - - 3
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (7.25%) CMS
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.80%) Confluence
2 4 (5.80%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.45%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.70%) Azure
2 5 (7.25%) AWS
3 4 (5.80%) GCP
4 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.45%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.45%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.45%) IaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.45%) PaaS
5 1 (1.45%) SaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.84%) Wireless
2 9 (13.04%) 5G
3 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
4 7 (10.14%) 5G NR
5 6 (8.70%) Firewall
6 4 (5.80%) DNS
6 4 (5.80%) Ethernet
6 4 (5.80%) LAN
6 4 (5.80%) NAS
6 4 (5.80%) SAN
6 4 (5.80%) SpaceWire
6 4 (5.80%) WAN
7 2 (2.90%) 3GPP
7 2 (2.90%) 4G
7 2 (2.90%) FTP
7 2 (2.90%) HTTP
7 2 (2.90%) SMTP
7 2 (2.90%) SSL
8 1 (1.45%) SNMP
8 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) SAP BW
1 4 (5.80%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.45%) MySQL
3 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.25%) Eclipse
3 4 (5.80%) JIRA
4 3 (4.35%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.35%) Git
4 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.90%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.45%) Gerrit
6 1 (1.45%) GitLab
6 1 (1.45%) Postman
6 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Military
6 3 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.35%) Finance
6 3 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.90%) Electronics
7 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Aviation
8 1 (1.45%) Avionics
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Developer
1 13 (18.84%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) CUDA Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) Software Engineer
3 5 (7.25%) Consultant
4 4 (5.80%) Administrator
4 4 (5.80%) Analyst
4 4 (5.80%) Backend Developer
4 4 (5.80%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (5.80%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (5.80%) DevOps Administrator
4 4 (5.80%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 4 (5.80%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (5.80%) Senior
4 4 (5.80%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (5.80%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (4.35%) Linux Developer
5 3 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) LDAP
1 6 (8.70%) REST
2 5 (7.25%) Web Services
3 4 (5.80%) Node.js
3 4 (5.80%) POSIX
3 4 (5.80%) SAP Basis
3 4 (5.80%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (4.35%) RESTful
4 3 (4.35%) Yocto
5 2 (2.90%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.90%) Swagger
6 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.45%) HTML
6 1 (1.45%) JSON
6 1 (1.45%) JTAPI
6 1 (1.45%) Middleware
6 1 (1.45%) Redfish
6 1 (1.45%) XML
6 1 (1.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) CUDA
2 5 (7.25%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.80%) Device Driver
3 4 (5.80%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (5.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.80%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (5.80%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.35%) STB
5 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.90%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.90%) Digital TV
5 2 (2.90%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) FPGA
6 1 (1.45%) IVR
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.45%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 27 (39.13%) Windows
2 11 (15.94%) Unix
3 8 (11.59%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.80%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.90%) VxWorks
7 1 (1.45%) AIX
7 1 (1.45%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Agile
2 13 (18.84%) Incident Management
3 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (14.49%) Validation
4 9 (13.04%) Problem Management
5 8 (11.59%) Containerisation
5 8 (11.59%) DevOps
5 8 (11.59%) Incident Response
5 8 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (11.59%) Software Engineering
5 8 (11.59%) TDD
6 7 (10.14%) Coaching
6 7 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (8.70%) ITIL
7 6 (8.70%) Software Testing
7 6 (8.70%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.25%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) Python
2 14 (20.29%) C++
3 11 (15.94%) Java
4 10 (14.49%) C#
5 9 (13.04%) Bash
5 9 (13.04%) C
6 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.25%) Tcl
8 4 (5.80%) Go
8 4 (5.80%) Perl
9 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.35%) SQL
9 3 (4.35%) VBA
10 2 (2.90%) Groovy
10 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.45%) Bicep
11 1 (1.45%) C-shell
11 1 (1.45%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) GxP
2 3 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.45%) Firmware
4 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.59%) Ansible
3 5 (7.25%) Terraform
4 3 (4.35%) TeamSite
5 1 (1.45%) Consul
5 1 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.45%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.45%) Nagios
5 1 (1.45%) Podman
5 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) Puppet
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.45%) SCOM
5 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.39%) Red Hat
3 7 (10.14%) NVIDIA
4 6 (8.70%) SAP
4 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (7.25%) NetApp
6 4 (5.80%) Darktrace
6 4 (5.80%) FireEye
6 4 (5.80%) HP
6 4 (5.80%) LogRhythm
6 4 (5.80%) Splunk
6 4 (5.80%) VMware
7 3 (4.35%) Google
7 3 (4.35%) IBM
7 3 (4.35%) Remedy
8 2 (2.90%) EMC
8 2 (2.90%) IronPort
8 2 (2.90%) Symantec
8 2 (2.90%) Wind River
9 1 (1.45%) Xilinx