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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 77 115 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.87% 5.99% 7.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.02% 51.34% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 67 99
10th Percentile £400 £290 £260
25th Percentile £415 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £575
90th Percentile £613 £705 £631
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 12
10th Percentile £36.48 £52.25 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £58.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

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 208 224 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.25% 11.67% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 140 303
10th Percentile £179 £181 £163
25th Percentile £225 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
England median daily rate £467 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -1.74% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 41 49
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £22.56 £57.50 £18.26
Median % change year-on-year -60.77% +214.98% -15.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.15 £66.25 £66.75
England median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% -47.06% +97.67%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +3 45 £500 -9.09% 179
Cambridgeshire +16 19 £430 -21.82% 251
Essex +7 7 £400 -5.88% 131
Norfolk - 3 £475 - 38
Bedfordshire -5 2 £475 +26.67% 76
Suffolk -12 1 £751 +300.53% 38
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 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.19%) CMS
2 4 (5.19%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) NetWeaver
3 3 (3.90%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.90%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.60%) IBM Domino
5 1 (1.30%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.39%) AWS
2 6 (7.79%) Azure
3 4 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (5.19%) GCP
4 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.30%) Cohesity
4 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.30%) IaaS
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.30%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.30%) PaaS
4 1 (1.30%) SaaS
4 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) Wireless
2 10 (12.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (11.69%) 5G
4 8 (10.39%) SAN
5 7 (9.09%) 5G NR
6 6 (7.79%) DNS
6 6 (7.79%) Ethernet
6 6 (7.79%) Firewall
7 4 (5.19%) iSCSI
7 4 (5.19%) LAN
7 4 (5.19%) NAS
7 4 (5.19%) SpaceWire
7 4 (5.19%) WAN
8 2 (2.60%) 3GPP
8 2 (2.60%) 4G
9 1 (1.30%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.30%) RS-232
9 1 (1.30%) Skype
9 1 (1.30%) SMTP
9 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) SAP BW
1 4 (5.19%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.60%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.30%) Big Data
3 1 (1.30%) MySQL
3 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) JIRA
2 7 (9.09%) Eclipse
2 7 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.19%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.90%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.60%) Git
5 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.30%) Gerrit
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Military
4 6 (7.79%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.49%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.49%) Electronics
6 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Finance
6 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.60%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.30%) Aviation
8 1 (1.30%) Avionics
8 1 (1.30%) Law
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (16.88%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Administrator
4 7 (9.09%) CUDA Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (7.79%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.19%) DevOps Administrator
6 4 (5.19%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (5.19%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.90%) Radio Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) RF Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Senior
7 3 (3.90%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) Node.js
1 6 (7.79%) REST
1 6 (7.79%) Web Services
2 5 (6.49%) LDAP
3 4 (5.19%) POSIX
3 4 (5.19%) SAP Basis
3 4 (5.19%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (3.90%) RESTful
4 3 (3.90%) Yocto
5 2 (2.60%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.60%) Swagger
6 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.30%) HTML
6 1 (1.30%) JSON
6 1 (1.30%) JTAPI
6 1 (1.30%) Middleware
6 1 (1.30%) Redfish
6 1 (1.30%) XML
6 1 (1.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) CUDA
2 5 (6.49%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (6.49%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.19%) Device Driver
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (5.19%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.90%) Clustering
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.90%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.90%) STB
5 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.60%) Digital TV
5 2 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.30%) EPoS
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (33.77%) Windows
2 10 (12.99%) Unix
3 8 (10.39%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (10.39%) Ubuntu
4 7 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.49%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.19%) CentOS
7 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.60%) VMS
8 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.30%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.68%) Agile
2 14 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 12 (15.58%) Incident Management
3 12 (15.58%) Validation
4 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (12.99%) TDD
6 9 (11.69%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (11.69%) Problem Management
7 8 (10.39%) CI/CD
7 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
7 8 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (9.09%) Coaching
8 7 (9.09%) DevOps
8 7 (9.09%) Digital Twin
8 7 (9.09%) Synthetic Environment
8 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
9 6 (7.79%) ITIL
9 6 (7.79%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) Python
2 18 (23.38%) C++
3 12 (15.58%) Java
4 11 (14.29%) C#
5 9 (11.69%) Bash
5 9 (11.69%) C
6 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 5 (6.49%) Tcl
8 4 (5.19%) Go
8 4 (5.19%) Perl
8 4 (5.19%) SQL
9 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.90%) VBA
10 2 (2.60%) Groovy
10 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.60%) R
11 1 (1.30%) Bicep
11 1 (1.30%) C-shell
11 1 (1.30%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
1 12 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) Degree
3 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) GxP
2 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.90%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.99%) Docker
3 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.30%) Firmware
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Ansible
2 10 (12.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.49%) Terraform
4 2 (2.60%) TeamSite
5 1 (1.30%) Consul
5 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.30%) Nagios
5 1 (1.30%) Podman
5 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.30%) Puppet
5 1 (1.30%) SCCM
5 1 (1.30%) SCOM
5 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 10 (12.99%) ServiceNow
4 8 (10.39%) SAP
5 7 (9.09%) NVIDIA
5 7 (9.09%) VMware
6 5 (6.49%) NetApp
7 4 (5.19%) HP
8 3 (3.90%) Darktrace
8 3 (3.90%) FireEye
8 3 (3.90%) Google
8 3 (3.90%) IBM
8 3 (3.90%) LogRhythm
8 3 (3.90%) Splunk
9 2 (2.60%) Databricks
9 2 (2.60%) EMC
9 2 (2.60%) Remedy
10 1 (1.30%) Apple
10 1 (1.30%) MKS
10 1 (1.30%) Symantec