Linux Contracts in the East of England

Linux
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 116 149 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.11% 7.21% 8.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.79% 30.35% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 94 108
10th Percentile £275 £260 £361
25th Percentile £313 £359 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.93% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £606
90th Percentile £675 £631 £652
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 28
10th Percentile £51.88 £49.75 £52.38
25th Percentile £56.88 £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +32.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 224 491 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.79% 23.75% 22.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 333 317
10th Percentile £175 £160 £158
25th Percentile £235 £210 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £494
90th Percentile £650 £700 £618
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 65 89
10th Percentile £13.57 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.40
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -12.99% +23.64%
75th Percentile £62.50 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +20.21%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 -1 78 £550 +5.77% 36
Essex +15 23 £370 -36.54% 7
Cambridgeshire -23 10 £440 -2.22% 86
Bedfordshire -2 4 £375 -14.29% 6
Suffolk +10 1 £188 -53.13% 5
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 13 (11.21%) Apache
1 13 (11.21%) CMS
2 11 (9.48%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.90%) IIS
4 4 (3.45%) NetWeaver
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (6.03%) Simulink
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.45%) AWS
2 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
3 2 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (1.72%) Azure
3 2 (1.72%) PaaS
3 2 (1.72%) Serverless
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (0.86%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (0.86%) CloudFront
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.86%) OCI
4 1 (0.86%) Route 53
4 1 (0.86%) SaaS
4 1 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.48%) TCP/IP
2 10 (8.62%) HTTP
3 7 (6.03%) H.323
4 6 (5.17%) 5G
5 5 (4.31%) NAS
5 5 (4.31%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (3.45%) Ethernet
6 4 (3.45%) FTP
6 4 (3.45%) Wireless
6 4 (3.45%) Wireshark
7 3 (2.59%) DNS
7 3 (2.59%) Firewall
7 3 (2.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.59%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.59%) SMTP
7 3 (2.59%) SSL
7 3 (2.59%) VPN
8 2 (1.72%) SAN
9 1 (0.86%) 802.11
9 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.45%) SAP BW
2 4 (3.45%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.59%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.72%) Big Data
4 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.86%) Ingres
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Git
1 9 (7.76%) JIRA
2 6 (5.17%) Subversion
2 6 (5.17%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.31%) Eclipse
4 4 (3.45%) gcov
4 4 (3.45%) GDB
4 4 (3.45%) GitLab
4 4 (3.45%) Gradle
5 1 (0.86%) CMake
5 1 (0.86%) Gerrit
5 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 30 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.93%) Telecoms
3 10 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.03%) Multimedia
5 5 (4.31%) Law
5 5 (4.31%) Legal
6 4 (3.45%) Military
7 2 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.86%) Advertising
8 1 (0.86%) Aviation
8 1 (0.86%) Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Electronics
8 1 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (13.79%) Developer
3 15 (12.93%) Software Engineer
4 14 (12.07%) Analyst
5 12 (10.34%) SOC Analyst
6 11 (9.48%) C++ Software Engineer
7 10 (8.62%) Senior
7 10 (8.62%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (6.90%) C Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) C/C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Real Time Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Server Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) C++ Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Technical Support
11 5 (4.31%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Design Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.21%) Yocto
2 6 (5.17%) LDAP
3 5 (4.31%) Web Services
4 4 (3.45%) Node.js
4 4 (3.45%) SAP Basis
4 4 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (2.59%) JSON
5 3 (2.59%) Middleware
6 2 (1.72%) FFmpeg
6 2 (1.72%) GStreamer
6 2 (1.72%) REST
6 2 (1.72%) YAML
7 1 (0.86%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.86%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.34%) Cyberattack
2 11 (9.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 11 (9.48%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (7.76%) STB
4 8 (6.90%) IVR
4 8 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.03%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (6.03%) Digital TV
6 5 (4.31%) PKI
7 3 (2.59%) Clustering
7 3 (2.59%) FPGA
8 2 (1.72%) ASIC
8 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.72%) Verilog
9 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.86%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 41 (35.34%) Windows
2 20 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (13.79%) Unix
4 7 (6.03%) Solaris
5 6 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (4.31%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.59%) AIX
8 3 (2.59%) CentOS
9 2 (1.72%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.24%) Agile
2 18 (15.52%) Incident Response
3 17 (14.66%) Software Engineering
4 15 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.34%) Change Management
6 12 (10.34%) Migration
7 11 (9.48%) High Availability
7 11 (9.48%) Multithreading
7 11 (9.48%) Security Operations
7 11 (9.48%) Visualisation
8 10 (8.62%) Open Source
9 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (6.90%) CI/CD
10 8 (6.90%) Data Protection
10 8 (6.90%) Mathematics
11 7 (6.03%) Capacity Management
11 7 (6.03%) Data Analysis
11 7 (6.03%) ITIL
11 7 (6.03%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.72%) C
2 26 (22.41%) C++
3 18 (15.52%) Python
4 9 (7.76%) Bash
5 8 (6.90%) MATLAB
6 7 (6.03%) C#
7 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.45%) SQL
9 3 (2.59%) Java
10 2 (1.72%) Assembly Language
10 2 (1.72%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (1.72%) Tcl
11 1 (0.86%) Jython
11 1 (0.86%) Korn
11 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.55%) DV Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Degree
4 4 (3.45%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) CISSP
6 1 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.86%) LPIC
6 1 (0.86%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 22 (18.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (16.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.31%) Docker
3 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.45%) Firmware
5 3 (2.59%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.72%) LXC
6 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.86%) HDFS
7 1 (0.86%) KVM
7 1 (0.86%) NFS
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.86%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (5.17%) Ansible
2 5 (4.31%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.59%) SCOM
4 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.72%) Proxmox
4 2 (1.72%) Rancher
4 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.72%) SCCM
4 2 (1.72%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 27 (23.28%) VMware
3 21 (18.10%) Red Hat
4 15 (12.93%) Splunk
5 12 (10.34%) Darktrace
5 12 (10.34%) FireEye
5 12 (10.34%) LogRhythm
6 8 (6.90%) Avaya
7 5 (4.31%) Verint
8 4 (3.45%) Klocwork
8 4 (3.45%) NetApp
8 4 (3.45%) Perforce
8 4 (3.45%) SAP
9 3 (2.59%) IronPort
9 3 (2.59%) Symantec
10 2 (1.72%) Cisco
10 2 (1.72%) Dell
10 2 (1.72%) HP
10 2 (1.72%) Synopsys
10 2 (1.72%) Xilinx