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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 30 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Linux 45 44 46
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.31% 6.29% 4.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.21% 37.29% 42.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 34
10th Percentile £401 £340 £220
25th Percentile £431 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -3.65% +2.75%
75th Percentile £538 £532 £550
90th Percentile £579 £780 £606
Scotland median daily rate £483 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +1.68% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.50
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year - +22.95% -
75th Percentile - - £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -26.67% +27.05% +13.06%

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 76 118 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.34% 16.88% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 71 70
10th Percentile £175 £165 £155
25th Percentile £325 £233 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -1.45% -9.21%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £539
90th Percentile £575 £685 £601
Scotland median daily rate £450 £438 £518
% change year-on-year +2.86% -15.46% +13.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 5
10th Percentile - £15.22 £12.25
25th Percentile - £18.82 £13.16
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +29.80% -11.88%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.50
90th Percentile - - £62.10
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £19.34
% change year-on-year +11.78% +16.34% +13.50%

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 18 November 2025.

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 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) GitHub
3 9 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (15.56%) Azure
4 7 (15.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.67%) GCP
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (4.44%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) Network Security
3 4 (8.89%) VPN
4 3 (6.67%) Unified Communications
4 3 (6.67%) VoIP
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.22%) IPsec
5 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.22%) LAN
5 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.22%) SSL
5 1 (2.22%) WAN
5 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.44%) InfluxDB
4 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.22%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.22%) DB2
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) NewSQL
5 1 (2.22%) OLTP
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.78%) ClearCase
3 4 (8.89%) Git
3 4 (8.89%) GitLab
3 4 (8.89%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) Liquibase
5 2 (4.44%) Snyk
5 2 (4.44%) Subversion
5 2 (4.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (2.22%) Toad
General
1 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.89%) Banking
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Security Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Administrator
6 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Informatica Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) REST
2 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.67%) RESTful
3 2 (4.44%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.22%) Ajax
4 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.22%) CSS
4 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.22%) HTML
4 1 (2.22%) JMS
4 1 (2.22%) OAuth
4 1 (2.22%) OpenID
4 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.22%) SAML
4 1 (2.22%) SOAP
4 1 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.22%) Graphic Design
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (53.33%) Windows
2 17 (37.78%) Unix
3 10 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 19 (42.22%) Agile
3 15 (33.33%) DevOps
4 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (13.33%) High Availability
6 6 (13.33%) Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Change Management
7 5 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 5 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (11.11%) Microservices
7 5 (11.11%) Observability
7 5 (11.11%) Scrum
7 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Java
2 13 (28.89%) Shell Script
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 11 (24.44%) Python
5 8 (17.78%) Bash
5 8 (17.78%) C
6 7 (15.56%) Perl
7 5 (11.11%) C++
8 4 (8.89%) Go
9 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.22%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Degree
2 8 (17.78%) AWS Certification
3 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.89%) CCNA
5 4 (8.89%) CCNP
5 4 (8.89%) CISSP
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.67%) CCIE
6 3 (6.67%) CCIE Collaboration
6 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.22%) CISM
8 1 (2.22%) MCSE
8 1 (2.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) KVM
3 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
1 14 (31.11%) Terraform
2 13 (28.89%) Ansible
3 11 (24.44%) Grafana
4 9 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (6.67%) Nagios
7 2 (4.44%) Fluentd
7 2 (4.44%) HAProxy
8 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.22%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (2.22%) linkerd
8 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (2.22%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Oracle
2 8 (17.78%) NetApp
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) Cisco
5 3 (6.67%) Commvault
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.67%) Splunk
6 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.44%) Google
6 2 (4.44%) Informatica
6 2 (4.44%) VMware
7 1 (2.22%) Apple
7 1 (2.22%) BMC
7 1 (2.22%) Citrix
7 1 (2.22%) F5
7 1 (2.22%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (2.22%) McAfee
7 1 (2.22%) Veeam