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

 6 months to
19 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 26 36 26
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.84% 5.71% 3.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.63% 42.35% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 18
10th Percentile - £190 £407
25th Percentile £406 £400 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £611
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -10.02% +22.19%
75th Percentile £475 £675 £634
90th Percentile £515 £738 £750
Scotland median daily rate £438 £468 £600
% change year-on-year -6.42% -22.08% +13.74%
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 - - -0.08%

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 64 85 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.45% 13.49% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 46
10th Percentile £161 £171 £196
25th Percentile £206 £194 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £456 £505
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% -9.65% +8.60%
75th Percentile £556 £555 £632
90th Percentile £575 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £425 £459 £500
% change year-on-year -7.36% -8.25% +4.28%
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 £22.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -26.14% -60.89% +4.65%

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 19 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 3 (11.54%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) JBoss
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) VPN
2 9 (34.62%) LAN
3 8 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (30.77%) SD-WAN
3 8 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (26.92%) WAN
5 5 (19.23%) Firewall
5 5 (19.23%) Network Security
6 4 (15.38%) IPsec
6 4 (15.38%) Unified Communications
7 3 (11.54%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (11.54%) SAN
8 2 (7.69%) Internet
9 1 (3.85%) DHCP
9 1 (3.85%) DNS
9 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
1 2 (7.69%) WebDriver
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Banking
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Network Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Field Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Network Field Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer in Test
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SCADA Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Software Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.85%) Flask
2 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (11.54%) NVMe
3 2 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) SCADA
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Windows
2 9 (34.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Unix
4 2 (7.69%) Solaris
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) High Availability
1 11 (42.31%) Roadmaps
2 9 (34.62%) Network Management
3 8 (30.77%) Load Balancing
4 6 (23.08%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (15.38%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) Digital Innovation
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (15.38%) ITIL
6 4 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
8 2 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Bash
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.69%) Korn
4 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) Perl
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (19.23%) CCNA
3 3 (11.54%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) NCDA
4 1 (3.85%) VCP6
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (11.54%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Ansible
1 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) vMotion
3 2 (7.69%) vRealize
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) linkerd
4 1 (3.85%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Cisco
2 11 (42.31%) F5
3 10 (38.46%) Palo Alto
4 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
5 4 (15.38%) Oracle
6 3 (11.54%) VMware
7 2 (7.69%) Brocade
7 2 (7.69%) Commvault
7 2 (7.69%) NetApp
8 1 (3.85%) Avaya
8 1 (3.85%) Databricks
8 1 (3.85%) EnterpriseDB
8 1 (3.85%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
23 Linux jobs in Edinburgh