Linux Contracts in the East Midlands

Linux
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 56 50
Rank change year-on-year +33 -6 -22
Contract jobs citing Linux 44 32 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.71% 3.13% 3.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.29% 14.81% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 33
10th Percentile £356 £351 £207
25th Percentile £434 £420 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +17.57% -9.15% +23.75%
75th Percentile £571 £547 £500
90th Percentile £589 £634 £668
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 174 216 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.60% 21.09% 24.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 207
10th Percentile £124 £122 £128
25th Percentile £150 £183 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% +3.00%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £456
90th Percentile £575 £675 £500
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 34
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.69 £13.83
25th Percentile £14.27 £12.70 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -7.95% +28.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £20.00 £23.44
90th Percentile £21.88 £29.23 £37.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.94%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the East Midlands

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the East Midlands

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Contract 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 9 May 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
Northamptonshire +16 13 £363 - 17
Derbyshire +8 12 £575 +30.68% 11
Leicestershire +19 10 £520 +48.57% 10
Nottinghamshire +6 4 £450 +1.12% 18
Lincolnshire +7 1 - - 3
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 5 (11.36%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (2.27%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (29.55%) SAN
2 8 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.27%) Firewall
4 1 (2.27%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.27%) LAN
4 1 (2.27%) LTE
4 1 (2.27%) Multicast
4 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) RDBMS
1 6 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.36%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.36%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (11.36%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (11.36%) Git
2 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 5 (11.36%) SonarQube
2 5 (11.36%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (11.36%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
1 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Automotive
2 2 (4.55%) Banking
2 2 (4.55%) Finance
2 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Support Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (11.36%) Administrator
3 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Python Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Backup Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.27%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) HP Storage
2 4 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.55%) Clustering
4 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (50.00%) Windows
2 14 (31.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (22.73%) AIX
4 9 (20.45%) Solaris
5 7 (15.91%) Ubuntu
6 5 (11.36%) Debian
7 1 (2.27%) SUSE
7 1 (2.27%) Unix
7 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) ITIL
2 9 (20.45%) DevOps
3 6 (13.64%) Agile
3 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (13.64%) Project Delivery
3 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (11.36%) Code Quality
4 5 (11.36%) Configuration Management
4 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (11.36%) Customer Service
4 5 (11.36%) Data Engineering
4 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
4 5 (11.36%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (11.36%) Matrix Organization
4 5 (11.36%) Microservices
4 5 (11.36%) Migration
4 5 (11.36%) Prototyping
4 5 (11.36%) Statistics
4 5 (11.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) Bash
3 5 (11.36%) Perl
4 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.55%) C
6 2 (4.55%) C++
6 2 (4.55%) Embedded C
6 2 (4.55%) Embedded C++
6 2 (4.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 21 (47.73%) SC Cleared
3 13 (29.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Docker
2 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) KVM
4 1 (2.27%) Lustre
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) EMC NetWorker
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (13.64%) NetBackup
2 6 (13.64%) Progress Chef
3 5 (11.36%) Ansible
3 5 (11.36%) Kibana
4 3 (6.82%) Terraform
5 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.27%) Data Guard
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.27%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Red Hat
2 10 (22.73%) EMC
2 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 9 (20.45%) Cisco
4 8 (18.18%) Brocade
4 8 (18.18%) VMware
5 7 (15.91%) Oracle
6 6 (13.64%) HP
6 6 (13.64%) Symantec
7 5 (11.36%) AppDynamics
7 5 (11.36%) Splunk
8 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.27%) Bloomberg
9 1 (2.27%) Juniper