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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 26 30
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 36 48 51
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.46% 7.56% 5.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.89% 55.17% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 40
10th Percentile £406 £189 -
25th Percentile £411 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £453
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% +8.18% -9.50%
75th Percentile £497 £638 £634
90th Percentile £570 £686 £753
Scotland median daily rate £450 £483 £478
% change year-on-year -6.83% +1.15% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £54.05
25th Percentile - - £56.38
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 95 87 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.76% 13.70% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 49 100
10th Percentile £203 £169 £165
25th Percentile £238 £240 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +26.67% -8.54%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £529
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
Scotland median daily rate £425 £464 £400
% change year-on-year -8.31% +15.88% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 16
10th Percentile - - £16.61
25th Percentile - £21.00 £18.10
Median hourly rate £15.81 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +20.42% +3.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £23.00 £24.64
90th Percentile £63.80 - £59.13
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £21.14
% change year-on-year -37.14% +18.95% +10.23%

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 21 July 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 (8.33%) JBoss
2 2 (5.56%) nginx
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.11%) OCI
4 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (8.33%) IaaS
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (5.56%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) VPN
2 12 (33.33%) LAN
3 11 (30.56%) SD-WAN
3 11 (30.56%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (25.00%) Firewall
5 8 (22.22%) IPsec
5 8 (22.22%) Network Security
5 8 (22.22%) Unified Communications
6 7 (19.44%) WAN
7 5 (13.89%) Internet
8 3 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (8.33%) SAN
9 2 (5.56%) DNS
10 1 (2.78%) DHCP
10 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (8.33%) MySQL
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.56%) MariaDB
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.78%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Network Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Network Field Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Telephony Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Administrator
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Developer in Test
4 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
5 1 (2.78%) DBA
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (2.78%) Security Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Software Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
1 2 (5.56%) Vue
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.78%) Flask
2 1 (2.78%) JSON
2 1 (2.78%) LDAP
2 1 (2.78%) Middleware
2 1 (2.78%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) SOAP
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.33%) NVMe
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (58.33%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.11%) Unix
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.56%) Solaris
6 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Roadmaps
2 13 (36.11%) High Availability
3 12 (33.33%) DevOps
3 12 (33.33%) Migration
3 12 (33.33%) Network Management
4 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (30.56%) Load Balancing
5 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (22.22%) Digital Innovation
6 8 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
7 7 (19.44%) Agile
7 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (11.11%) Incident Response
10 4 (11.11%) Refactoring
10 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) Bash
2 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) Go
5 1 (2.78%) Perl
5 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.78%) REXX
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (16.67%) CCNA
3 5 (13.89%) CCNP
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) NCDA
6 1 (2.78%) RHCE
6 1 (2.78%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.78%) VCP6
6 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (41.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (22.22%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
1 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Ansible
1 5 (13.89%) Grafana
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) vMotion
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.56%) vRealize
5 1 (2.78%) Argo
5 1 (2.78%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.78%) linkerd
5 1 (2.78%) Nagios
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.78%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.78%) yum
5 1 (2.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Cisco
2 13 (36.11%) F5
2 13 (36.11%) Palo Alto
3 9 (25.00%) Oracle
4 6 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.33%) EnterpriseDB
6 3 (8.33%) VMware
7 2 (5.56%) Brocade
7 2 (5.56%) Commvault
7 2 (5.56%) NetApp
8 1 (2.78%) Avaya
8 1 (2.78%) Databricks
8 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.78%) IBM