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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 45 41
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 37 27 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.92% 3.31% 6.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.12% 31.40% 39.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 61
10th Percentile £190 £394 £413
25th Percentile £403 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £666 £634 £539
90th Percentile £734 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £468 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -20.76% +12.38% +6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
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 - £60.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year - +1.19% +13.22%

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 82 86 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.12% 10.55% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 152
10th Percentile £170 £202 £160
25th Percentile £197 £340 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £454
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +10.19% +4.61%
75th Percentile £557 £625 £538
90th Percentile £675 £731 £622
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £20.02 £18.22 -
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.88 £26.00 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% -25.95% +75.55%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £26.59 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

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 1 May 2025.

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 2 (5.41%) OpenROAD
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (2.70%) JBoss
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) AWS
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.41%) IaaS
4 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.41%) Route 53
4 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) Internet
3 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.70%) LAN
3 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.41%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.70%) GIS
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Finance
4 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.81%) Law
6 3 (8.11%) Banking
7 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Server Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.11%) Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.11%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) OpenROAD Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Middleware
1 3 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.41%) Ajax
2 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.41%) CSS
2 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
2 2 (5.41%) HTML
2 2 (5.41%) Java SE
2 2 (5.41%) JMS
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
1 6 (16.22%) Replication
2 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.81%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.70%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (59.46%) Windows
2 15 (40.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (21.62%) Windows Server
4 7 (18.92%) Ubuntu
5 6 (16.22%) Solaris
6 5 (13.51%) AIX
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (13.51%) Unix
7 4 (10.81%) HPUX
8 3 (8.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Agile
2 9 (24.32%) ITIL
3 7 (18.92%) Project Delivery
3 7 (18.92%) Service Management
4 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (16.22%) ITSM
4 6 (16.22%) Problem Management
4 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) High Availability
5 5 (13.51%) Kanban
5 5 (13.51%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Debt
6 4 (10.81%) Asset Management
6 4 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.81%) Logistics
6 4 (10.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Python
1 6 (16.22%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Bash
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) Perl
3 3 (8.11%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.41%) Groovy
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) C
5 1 (2.70%) VB
5 1 (2.70%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.41%) NCSC
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) KVM
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.81%) SCCM
3 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.41%) Kibana
5 1 (2.70%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Nagios
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) VMware
2 12 (32.43%) Red Hat
3 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
4 7 (18.92%) HP
5 6 (16.22%) IBM
5 6 (16.22%) Oracle
6 4 (10.81%) Sun
6 4 (10.81%) Unisys
7 3 (8.11%) Cisco
7 3 (8.11%) Citrix
8 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.70%) Aruba
9 1 (2.70%) Avaya
9 1 (2.70%) Commvault
9 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (2.70%) Imperva
9 1 (2.70%) NetApp
9 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA
9 1 (2.70%) Tanium