Linux Developer Contracts in England

Linux Developer
UK > England

The median Linux Developer daily rate in England is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 631 762
Rank change year-on-year +109 +131 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Developer 19 30 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.052% 0.060% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.063% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 15
10th Percentile £250 - £421
25th Percentile £269 £359 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £487 £1,000 £575
90th Percentile £517 £1,113 £597
UK median daily rate £631 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +9.75% +14.90% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% -

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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Linux Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Developer in England

Linux Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Developer in England

Linux Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Developer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Developer in England

Linux Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Developer in England

Linux Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux Developer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux Developer in England

Linux Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 11 £350 -26.32% 3
South East +24 5 £511 - 2
East of England - 3 - -
Linux Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Linux Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (78.95%) C++
3 12 (63.16%) C
3 12 (63.16%) Bash
4 9 (47.37%) Yocto
5 8 (42.11%) Multithreading
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
6 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
6 5 (26.32%) Prototyping
7 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
7 3 (15.79%) Python
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.79%) SAN
7 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
7 3 (15.79%) ITIL
7 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.79%) Debian
7 3 (15.79%) VMware
7 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Verification and Validation
8 2 (10.53%) Robot Framework
8 2 (10.53%) Scrum
8 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
8 2 (10.53%) Validation

Linux Developer 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
1 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) SNMP
2 2 (10.53%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (5.26%) SSL
3 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GoogleTest
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Yocto
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) FFmpeg
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Device Driver
1 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Debian
2 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Multithreading
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Prototyping
3 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
3 3 (15.79%) ITIL
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Scrum
4 2 (10.53%) SysML
4 2 (10.53%) UML
4 2 (10.53%) Validation
4 2 (10.53%) Verification and Validation
5 1 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (5.26%) Device Driver Development
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) C++
2 12 (63.16%) Bash
2 12 (63.16%) C
3 3 (15.79%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
1 3 (15.79%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.53%) Google