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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -26 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 28 56 50
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.92% 8.82% 6.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.77% 64.37% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 39
10th Percentile £406 £410 -
25th Percentile £431 £450 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £507 £550 £528
90th Percentile £543 £675 £746
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.75
25th Percentile - - £58.13
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.63
90th Percentile - - £73.25
Scotland median hourly rate - £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +1.64%

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 91 87 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.75% 13.70% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 104
10th Percentile £148 £200 £163
25th Percentile £206 £413 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +26.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £514
90th Percentile £600 £638 £685
Scotland median daily rate £375 £472 £400
% change year-on-year -20.55% +18.00% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 16
10th Percentile - - £16.61
25th Percentile - - £18.10
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.16%
75th Percentile £28.87 - £24.18
90th Percentile £60.65 - £40.84
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £19.28
% change year-on-year -37.14% +30.46% -60.55%

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 September 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 (7.14%) JBoss
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) OCI
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.71%) IaaS
4 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.71%) PaaS
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) LAN
1 10 (35.71%) VPN
2 9 (32.14%) SD-WAN
2 9 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (28.57%) Firewall
4 7 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (25.00%) IPsec
4 7 (25.00%) Network Security
4 7 (25.00%) Unified Communications
5 5 (17.86%) Internet
5 5 (17.86%) WAN
6 1 (3.57%) DNS
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.57%) Power Query
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Network Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Telephony Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Field Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Server Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Server Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Server Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.57%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) LDAP
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) SOAP
2 1 (3.57%) Vue
2 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Unix
4 4 (14.29%) Solaris
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (7.14%) AIX
6 1 (3.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) High Availability
1 11 (39.29%) Migration
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 9 (32.14%) Load Balancing
3 9 (32.14%) Network Management
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
5 7 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
6 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (17.86%) Change Management
7 5 (17.86%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Patch Management
8 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (10.71%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.29%) CCNA
2 4 (14.29%) CCNP
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) RHCE
5 1 (3.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) Argo
4 1 (3.57%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.57%) linkerd
4 1 (3.57%) Nagios
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.57%) yum
4 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Cisco
1 10 (35.71%) F5
1 10 (35.71%) Palo Alto
2 8 (28.57%) Oracle
3 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) EnterpriseDB
4 2 (7.14%) Qualys
4 2 (7.14%) Rapid7
4 2 (7.14%) Tenable
5 1 (3.57%) Avaya
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.57%) IBM