Linux Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 44
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 27 36 27
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.76% 5.80% 3.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.13% 44.44% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 20
10th Percentile - £190 £394
25th Percentile £406 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -3.51% +14.00%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £634
90th Percentile £540 £738 £750
Scotland median daily rate £438 £468 £595
% change year-on-year -6.42% -21.43% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +1.19%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 69 81 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.60% 13.04% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 54
10th Percentile £166 £169 £202
25th Percentile £206 £196 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% -4.60% +10.19%
75th Percentile £566 £558 £625
90th Percentile £575 £678 £731
Scotland median daily rate £425 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -8.50% -7.10% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 9
10th Percentile - £20.02 £18.22
25th Percentile - £21.00 £18.27
Median hourly rate - £22.88 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.02% -25.95%
75th Percentile - £23.53 £60.75
90th Percentile - £26.59 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.14% -58.10% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Linux job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) JBoss
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
3 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) VPN
2 10 (37.04%) LAN
3 9 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 9 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 9 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (29.63%) WAN
5 6 (22.22%) Firewall
5 6 (22.22%) Network Security
6 5 (18.52%) IPsec
6 5 (18.52%) Unified Communications
7 3 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (11.11%) SAN
8 2 (7.41%) Internet
9 1 (3.70%) DHCP
9 1 (3.70%) DNS
9 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
2 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Banking
2 2 (7.41%) Finance
2 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Field Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Network Field Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Developer in Test
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Software Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.70%) Flask
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (11.11%) NVMe
3 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Windows
2 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Unix
4 2 (7.41%) Solaris
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) High Availability
1 13 (48.15%) Roadmaps
2 10 (37.04%) Network Management
3 9 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (18.52%) Change Management
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Digital Innovation
6 5 (18.52%) ITIL
6 5 (18.52%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (18.52%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
8 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) Bash
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) Korn
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) REXX
6 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (22.22%) CCNA
3 3 (11.11%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) NCDA
4 1 (3.70%) VCP6
4 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (18.52%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Grafana
3 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) vMotion
4 2 (7.41%) vRealize
5 1 (3.70%) Argo
5 1 (3.70%) linkerd
5 1 (3.70%) Nagios
5 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.70%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Cisco
2 12 (44.44%) F5
3 11 (40.74%) Palo Alto
4 5 (18.52%) Red Hat
5 4 (14.81%) Oracle
6 3 (11.11%) VMware
7 2 (7.41%) Brocade
7 2 (7.41%) Commvault
7 2 (7.41%) NetApp
8 1 (3.70%) Avaya
8 1 (3.70%) Databricks
8 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
8 1 (3.70%) EnterpriseDB
8 1 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.70%) IBM