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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 20 34 25
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.03% 5.63% 3.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.04% 40.96% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 17
10th Percentile - £190 £444
25th Percentile £406 £403 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £499 £623
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -19.92% +24.50%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £634
90th Percentile £535 £734 £750
Scotland median daily rate £413 £470 £600
% change year-on-year -12.23% -21.67% +9.09%
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 54 83 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.19% 13.74% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 40
10th Percentile £170 £172 £185
25th Percentile £244 £193 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £438 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -13.37% +12.22%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £634
90th Percentile £575 £660 £753
Scotland median daily rate £401 £453 £525
% change year-on-year -11.38% -13.81% +9.49%
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 29 March 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 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) LAN
1 6 (30.00%) VPN
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 5 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (20.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 3 (15.00%) Network Security
4 3 (15.00%) SAN
5 2 (10.00%) Internet
5 2 (10.00%) IPsec
5 2 (10.00%) Unified Communications
6 1 (5.00%) DHCP
6 1 (5.00%) DNS
6 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Field Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Network Field Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer in Test
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Software Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.00%) Flask
1 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (15.00%) NVMe
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Unix
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) High Availability
1 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (30.00%) Network Management
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 5 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) Korn
5 1 (5.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) NCDA
4 1 (5.00%) VCP6
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
1 3 (15.00%) Grafana
1 3 (15.00%) vMotion
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) vRealize
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco
2 7 (35.00%) F5
3 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (15.00%) NetApp
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle
5 3 (15.00%) VMware
6 2 (10.00%) Brocade
6 2 (10.00%) Commvault
7 1 (5.00%) Avaya
7 1 (5.00%) Databricks
7 1 (5.00%) EnterpriseDB
7 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (5.00%) Fortinet