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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 118 147 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.20% 7.27% 8.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.98% 30.75% 39.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 94 107
10th Percentile £286 £260 £356
25th Percentile £322 £363 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -7.69% +14.71%
75th Percentile £641 £609 £593
90th Percentile £679 £631 £658
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 30
10th Percentile £52.13 £49.38 £45.58
25th Percentile £58.13 £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +90.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.94 -
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.64% +23.68%

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 227 478 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.92% 23.65% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 323 321
10th Percentile £175 £162 £156
25th Percentile £235 £219 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £494
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 63 90
10th Percentile £13.65 - £13.24
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.38
Median hourly rate £32.75 £17.47 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.44% -14.78% +24.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.01%

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 May 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 5 May 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 5 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
Hertfordshire -1 78 £550 +5.77% 40
Essex +19 23 £370 -36.54% 8
Cambridgeshire -17 13 £533 +18.33% 96
Bedfordshire -7 3 £375 -14.29% 6
Suffolk +11 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 12 (10.17%) CMS
2 9 (7.63%) Apache
3 7 (5.93%) Tomcat
4 5 (4.24%) IIS
5 4 (3.39%) NetWeaver
6 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Simulink
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.39%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (2.54%) Amazon S3
1 3 (2.54%) AWS
2 2 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (1.69%) PaaS
2 2 (1.69%) Serverless
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (0.85%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (0.85%) Azure
3 1 (0.85%) CloudFront
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.85%) OCI
3 1 (0.85%) Route 53
3 1 (0.85%) SaaS
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.47%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.78%) HTTP
3 5 (4.24%) 5G
3 5 (4.24%) Ethernet
3 5 (4.24%) H.323
3 5 (4.24%) NAS
3 5 (4.24%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (3.39%) FTP
4 4 (3.39%) Wireshark
5 3 (2.54%) DNS
5 3 (2.54%) Firewall
5 3 (2.54%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (2.54%) SMTP
5 3 (2.54%) SSL
5 3 (2.54%) VPN
6 2 (1.69%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.69%) SAN
6 2 (1.69%) Wireless
7 1 (0.85%) 802.11
7 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.39%) SAP BW
2 4 (3.39%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.54%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.69%) Big Data
4 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.85%) Ingres
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Git
2 9 (7.63%) JIRA
3 8 (6.78%) Visual Studio
4 7 (5.93%) Subversion
5 6 (5.08%) Eclipse
6 4 (3.39%) gcov
6 4 (3.39%) GDB
6 4 (3.39%) GitLab
6 4 (3.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.85%) CMake
7 1 (0.85%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 30 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Telecoms
3 10 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (5.93%) Multimedia
5 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.24%) Law
5 5 (4.24%) Military
6 4 (3.39%) Legal
7 3 (2.54%) Electronics
8 2 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Aviation
9 1 (0.85%) Finance
9 1 (0.85%) Local Government
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (16.10%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (14.41%) Software Engineer
3 16 (13.56%) Developer
4 14 (11.86%) Analyst
5 12 (10.17%) SOC Analyst
6 11 (9.32%) C++ Software Engineer
6 11 (9.32%) Senior
7 10 (8.47%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (6.78%) C Software Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) C# Software Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Real Time Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Real Time Software Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) C++ Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Design Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Server Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Storage Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
12 4 (3.39%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.02%) Yocto
2 7 (5.93%) Web Services
3 5 (4.24%) LDAP
3 5 (4.24%) Node.js
4 4 (3.39%) JSON
4 4 (3.39%) SAP Basis
4 4 (3.39%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (2.54%) YAML
6 2 (1.69%) FFmpeg
6 2 (1.69%) GStreamer
6 2 (1.69%) Middleware
6 2 (1.69%) REST
7 1 (0.85%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Cyberattack
2 11 (9.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 11 (9.32%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (7.63%) STB
4 7 (5.93%) Digital TV
4 7 (5.93%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.24%) IVR
6 5 (4.24%) PKI
7 4 (3.39%) ASIC
7 4 (3.39%) FPGA
7 4 (3.39%) Verilog
8 3 (2.54%) Clustering
8 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.85%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.85%) MPEG
10 1 (0.85%) Replication
10 1 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 40 (33.90%) Windows
2 16 (13.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (13.56%) Unix
3 8 (6.78%) Solaris
4 6 (5.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (4.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.54%) CentOS
8 2 (1.69%) AIX
8 2 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.49%) Agile
2 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
3 18 (15.25%) Incident Response
4 15 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.17%) Change Management
6 12 (10.17%) Migration
6 12 (10.17%) Visualisation
7 11 (9.32%) Security Operations
8 10 (8.47%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.47%) High Availability
8 10 (8.47%) Multithreading
8 10 (8.47%) Open Source
9 9 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (7.63%) Validation
10 8 (6.78%) Mathematics
11 7 (5.93%) Data Analysis
11 7 (5.93%) Data Protection
11 7 (5.93%) Digital Twin
11 7 (5.93%) Mathematical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.12%) C
2 28 (23.73%) C++
3 19 (16.10%) Python
4 10 (8.47%) Bash
5 9 (7.63%) C#
6 7 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.93%) MATLAB
6 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.39%) SQL
7 4 (3.39%) SystemVerilog
7 4 (3.39%) Tcl
8 3 (2.54%) Assembly Language
8 3 (2.54%) Java
9 1 (0.85%) Jython
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) Rust
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 28 (23.73%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) Degree
5 4 (3.39%) SAP Certification
6 3 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.85%) LPIC
8 1 (0.85%) PhD
8 1 (0.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 21 (17.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (15.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.24%) Docker
3 5 (4.24%) Firmware
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.54%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.69%) LXC
5 2 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.85%) HDFS
6 1 (0.85%) KVM
6 1 (0.85%) NFS
6 1 (0.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (4.24%) Ansible
1 5 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) SCOM
3 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.69%) Proxmox
3 2 (1.69%) Rancher
3 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.69%) SCCM
3 2 (1.69%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (22.88%) VMware
3 20 (16.95%) Red Hat
4 15 (12.71%) Splunk
5 12 (10.17%) Darktrace
5 12 (10.17%) FireEye
5 12 (10.17%) LogRhythm
6 6 (5.08%) NetApp
7 5 (4.24%) Avaya
7 5 (4.24%) SAP
8 4 (3.39%) Cadence
8 4 (3.39%) Klocwork
8 4 (3.39%) Perforce
8 4 (3.39%) Verint
9 3 (2.54%) IronPort
9 3 (2.54%) Symantec
9 3 (2.54%) Synopsys
9 3 (2.54%) Xilinx
10 2 (1.69%) Cisco
10 2 (1.69%) IBM