Linux Contracts in Edinburgh

Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 40 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 27 83 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.34% 6.39% 4.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.76% 39.71% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 61 57
10th Percentile £394 £413 £263
25th Percentile £414 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £634 £539 £550
90th Percentile £750 £575 £593
Scotland median daily rate £595 £525 £496
% change year-on-year +13.33% +5.74% +16.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.46
25th Percentile £60.25 £51.25 £49.26
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £52.81
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -0.59% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £55.39
90th Percentile - - £55.61
Scotland median hourly rate £60.50 £59.79 £52.81
% change year-on-year +1.19% +13.22% -20.59%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 85 209 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.51% 16.09% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 152 143
10th Percentile £202 £160 £137
25th Percentile £340 £225 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £438
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +3.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £544
90th Percentile £731 £622 £598
Scotland median daily rate £500 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +4.38% +6.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 9
10th Percentile £18.22 - £17.01
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.11 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% +75.55% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £40.75
90th Percentile - - £54.60
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
1 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.70%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 11 (40.74%) OpenShift
3 8 (29.63%) Amazon S3
4 7 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (22.22%) Serverless
6 5 (18.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (14.81%) Azure
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Internet
3 3 (11.11%) LAN
3 3 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.41%) InfluxDB
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Informix
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Maven
3 7 (25.93%) Gradle
4 4 (14.81%) Artifactory
4 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Capybara
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) JUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Electronics
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Site Manager
1 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Manager
1 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Support
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) AWS CDK
2 3 (11.11%) Middleware
2 3 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (7.41%) Java EE
3 2 (7.41%) React
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) Guice
4 1 (3.70%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.70%) JPA
4 1 (3.70%) JSP
4 1 (3.70%) JSTL
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) OpenJDK
4 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.70%) Servlets
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.70%) STL
4 1 (3.70%) WebKit
4 1 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (14.81%) Device Driver
2 4 (14.81%) IoT
2 4 (14.81%) PCIe
2 4 (14.81%) Verilog
2 4 (14.81%) VHDL
3 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.41%) Clustering
4 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Unix
1 10 (37.04%) Windows
2 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (18.52%) Ubuntu
4 4 (14.81%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (14.81%) VxWorks
5 2 (7.41%) Solaris
6 1 (3.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
1 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (25.93%) DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) OWASP
4 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Application Security
5 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 6 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
7 4 (14.81%) Memory Management
7 4 (14.81%) Migration
7 4 (14.81%) Requirements Management
7 4 (14.81%) Scrum
7 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) Bash
3 9 (33.33%) Groovy
4 7 (25.93%) Ruby
5 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
6 5 (18.52%) Java
7 4 (14.81%) C
7 4 (14.81%) Embedded C
8 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (7.41%) Perl
8 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) RHCE
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) MISRA
1 4 (14.81%) MISRA C
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (7.41%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.70%) NCSC
4 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 4 (14.81%) Firmware
3 2 (7.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Ansible
2 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.93%) Terraform
4 5 (18.52%) Grafana
5 4 (14.81%) Kibana
6 1 (3.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
1 4 (14.81%) Intel
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Commvault
4 1 (3.70%) Tripwire
4 1 (3.70%) VMware