Linux Contracts in Edinburgh

Linux
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Linux 44 44 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.71% 5.15% 6.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.83% 33.08% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 51
10th Percentile £189 - £373
25th Percentile £400 £340 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £422 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.93% -15.55% -
75th Percentile £601 £634 £538
90th Percentile £675 £713 £575
Scotland median daily rate £477 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -4.60% -2.20% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £55.60 -
25th Percentile - £60.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.24% -0.59%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £60.25 £59.79
% change year-on-year -8.71% +0.77% +9.71%

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 92 133 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.02% 15.57% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 90 132
10th Percentile £158 £180 £160
25th Percentile £192 £240 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £355 £445
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -20.22% -6.32%
75th Percentile £527 £518 £525
90th Percentile £638 £634 £613
Scotland median daily rate £455 £400 £468
% change year-on-year +13.75% -14.44% +3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 4
10th Percentile £18.55 £16.61 £17.71
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -47.96% +87.25%
75th Percentile £24.25 £58.31 £55.94
90th Percentile £29.48 £60.75 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £25.09 £21.52
% change year-on-year +0.24% +16.59% +22.20%

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

Linux
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

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Edinburgh

Linux
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 3 (6.82%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) OpenROAD
3 1 (2.27%) IIS
3 1 (2.27%) JBoss
3 1 (2.27%) nginx
3 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) AWS
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.36%) Azure
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.55%) IaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) OCI
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) LAN
1 2 (4.55%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) Internet
2 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.27%) IPsec
2 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.27%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.27%) DB2
3 1 (2.27%) GIS
3 1 (2.27%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) NewSQL
3 1 (2.27%) OLTP
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
3 2 (4.55%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) Snyk
4 1 (2.27%) Toad
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (11.36%) Law
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (11.36%) Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 4 (9.09%) Server Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) OpenROAD Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Middleware
2 3 (6.82%) .NET
2 3 (6.82%) .NET Core
2 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
2 3 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (6.82%) Ajax
2 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.82%) CSS
2 3 (6.82%) Entity Framework
2 3 (6.82%) HTML
2 3 (6.82%) JMS
2 3 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (4.55%) Java SE
3 2 (4.55%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (2.27%) OAuth
4 1 (2.27%) OpenID
4 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.64%) Replication
3 5 (11.36%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.09%) Mainframe
5 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.27%) Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) SCADA
7 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (61.36%) Windows
2 13 (29.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (20.45%) Unix
4 7 (15.91%) Solaris
4 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
5 6 (13.64%) AIX
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (11.36%) Ubuntu
7 4 (9.09%) HPUX
8 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
9 1 (2.27%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.73%) DevOps
3 10 (22.73%) ITIL
4 7 (15.91%) High Availability
4 7 (15.91%) Project Delivery
4 7 (15.91%) Service Management
5 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (13.64%) ITSM
5 6 (13.64%) Problem Management
6 5 (11.36%) Customer Service
6 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (11.36%) Data Protection
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.36%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (11.36%) Technical Debt
7 4 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (9.09%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Bash
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) Java
3 4 (9.09%) Perl
3 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.27%) VB
5 1 (2.27%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.27%) CCNA
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.82%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) KVM
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.09%) SCCM
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.27%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Nagios
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) VMware
2 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Oracle
3 9 (20.45%) Red Hat
4 7 (15.91%) IBM
5 6 (13.64%) HP
6 4 (9.09%) Sun
6 4 (9.09%) Unisys
7 3 (6.82%) Cisco
8 2 (4.55%) Citrix
8 2 (4.55%) Informatica
8 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.27%) Avaya
9 1 (2.27%) BMC
9 1 (2.27%) Commvault
9 1 (2.27%) Dell
9 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.27%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (2.27%) F5
9 1 (2.27%) NetApp