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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 29 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 21 35 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.19% 5.72% 2.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.50% 41.18% 35.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 16
10th Percentile - £190 £440
25th Percentile £406 £403 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £499 £623
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -19.92% +24.44%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £644
90th Percentile £535 £734 £750
Scotland median daily rate £413 £470 £600
% change year-on-year -12.23% -21.67% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - £61.20
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 56 85 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.51% 13.89% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 38
10th Percentile £155 £173 £210
25th Percentile £206 £193 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -16.26% +14.44%
75th Percentile £538 £542 £634
90th Percentile £575 £656 £758
Scotland median daily rate £400 £459 £536
% change year-on-year -12.81% -14.33% +9.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 10
10th Percentile - £20.51 £18.24
25th Percentile - £21.00 £18.27
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - -46.97% +144.07%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £60.75
90th Percentile - £25.62 £60.83
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year -27.58% -57.26% -

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 2 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 2 (9.52%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) JBoss
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.52%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
1 6 (28.57%) VPN
2 5 (23.81%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
2 5 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (19.05%) WAN
4 3 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (14.29%) Firewall
4 3 (14.29%) Network Security
4 3 (14.29%) SAN
5 2 (9.52%) Internet
5 2 (9.52%) IPsec
5 2 (9.52%) Unified Communications
6 1 (4.76%) DHCP
6 1 (4.76%) DNS
6 1 (4.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (9.52%) MariaDB
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) Selenium
1 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
2 1 (4.76%) ClearCase
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Network Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Field Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Network Field Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Developer in Test
3 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Software Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.76%) Flask
2 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (14.29%) NVMe
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) SCADA
4 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Unix
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) High Availability
1 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
2 6 (28.57%) Network Management
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (9.52%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Bash
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.52%) C++
4 2 (9.52%) Korn
5 1 (4.76%) C
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) NCDA
4 1 (4.76%) VCP6
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) vMotion
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) vRealize
3 1 (4.76%) Argo
3 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco
2 7 (33.33%) F5
3 6 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
5 4 (19.05%) Oracle
6 3 (14.29%) NetApp
6 3 (14.29%) VMware
7 2 (9.52%) Brocade
7 2 (9.52%) Commvault
8 1 (4.76%) Avaya
8 1 (4.76%) Databricks
8 1 (4.76%) EnterpriseDB
8 1 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (4.76%) Fortinet