Linux Administrator Contracts in England

Linux Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 596 714
Rank change year-on-year +69 +118 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 16 52 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.10% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 43
10th Percentile £343 £239 £341
25th Percentile £355 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +5.65% -
75th Percentile £456 £555 £504
90th Percentile £491 £654 £575
UK median daily rate £450 £449 £425
% change year-on-year +0.22% +5.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 6
10th Percentile - £50.70 £23.19
25th Percentile - £51.25 £29.84
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.68% -
75th Percentile - £74.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £77.07 £83.88
UK median hourly rate - £55.63 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +17.11% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Linux Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in England.

Daily rate trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +98 7 £450 - 6
South East +13 6 £445 +748.10%
Midlands +29 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Linux Administrator
UK

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Linux Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (31.25%) DNS
4 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (25.00%) Puppet
5 4 (25.00%) VMware
5 4 (25.00%) Azure
6 3 (18.75%) Degree
6 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
6 3 (18.75%) F5
6 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
6 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) SMTP
6 3 (18.75%) Apache
6 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
6 3 (18.75%) Cloudflare
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Bash
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Ansible
7 2 (12.50%) RHCSA
7 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
7 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
7 2 (12.50%) SAP
7 2 (12.50%) Windows
7 2 (12.50%) Finance

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Cloudflare
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) Django
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Clustering
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) SUSE
4 1 (6.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.25%) Coaching
3 1 (6.25%) Compliance Management
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.25%) GitOps
3 1 (6.25%) High Availability
3 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.25%) Microservices
3 1 (6.25%) Migration
3 1 (6.25%) Open Source
3 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Korn
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.25%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) RHCSA
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) KVM
2 1 (6.25%) NFS
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) F5
4 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) IBM
5 1 (6.25%) Qualys