Linux Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 401 458
Rank change year-on-year +42 +57 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 109 132 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 89 141
10th Percentile £407 £375 £400
25th Percentile £474 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £688
90th Percentile £604 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.89% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,376 33,818 46,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.74% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,888 22,422 32,774
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 909 2,438 1,361
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.87 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.20 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.02
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -17.38% +88.21%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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 +32 31 £525 -4.55% 49
North of England +20 21 £520 +15.50% 20
South West +52 18 £500 -9.09% 7
South East +28 14 £500 +2.56% 27
North West +14 14 £500 +17.65% 6
East of England +18 13 £538 -2.27% 22
Midlands +23 9 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands +21 9 £475 +5.56% 1
Yorkshire +14 6 £550 -10.20% 13
North East -2 1 £350 -18.79% 1
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (100.00%) Linux
2 47 (43.12%) Red Hat
3 41 (37.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (34.86%) Python
5 37 (33.94%) Ansible
6 36 (33.03%) Bash
7 34 (31.19%) VMware
8 30 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (26.61%) VMware Infrastructure
10 24 (22.02%) Security Cleared
11 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
12 21 (19.27%) Puppet
12 21 (19.27%) SC Cleared
12 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
13 20 (18.35%) Containerisation
14 19 (17.43%) Unix
14 19 (17.43%) Windows
14 19 (17.43%) C++
15 18 (16.51%) Shell Script
15 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 17 (15.60%) Git
16 17 (15.60%) Jenkins
17 16 (14.68%) Docker
17 16 (14.68%) Azure
17 16 (14.68%) AWS
17 16 (14.68%) DNS
18 15 (13.76%) Configuration Management
18 15 (13.76%) Software Engineering
18 15 (13.76%) Embedded Linux
19 14 (12.84%) Ubuntu

Linux Engineer 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 6 (5.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.83%) Apache
3 2 (1.83%) nginx
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.68%) AWS
1 16 (14.68%) Azure
2 7 (6.42%) GCP
3 4 (3.67%) GitHub
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.83%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.92%) CloudBees
6 1 (0.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.68%) DNS
2 11 (10.09%) Firewall
2 11 (10.09%) SAN
3 10 (9.17%) NAS
4 9 (8.26%) DHCP
5 7 (6.42%) 5G
5 7 (6.42%) 5G NR
5 7 (6.42%) Wireless
6 6 (5.50%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.67%) LAN
8 3 (2.75%) HTTP
8 3 (2.75%) SSH
8 3 (2.75%) SSL
8 3 (2.75%) VLAN
9 2 (1.83%) BIG-IP
9 2 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.83%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.83%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.92%) Broadband
10 1 (0.92%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.83%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (15.60%) Git
1 17 (15.60%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.84%) JIRA
3 8 (7.34%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.50%) GoogleTest
4 6 (5.50%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (5.50%) TestRail
5 4 (3.67%) GitLab
6 3 (2.75%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.83%) Maven
7 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.83%) Subversion
8 1 (0.92%) Ant
8 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
General
1 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Finance
3 5 (4.59%) Banking
4 4 (3.67%) Legal
4 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.83%) Automotive
6 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.92%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) Middleware
2 9 (8.26%) LDAP
3 2 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.83%) REST
3 2 (1.83%) SOAP
4 1 (0.92%) Kafka
4 1 (0.92%) Node.js
4 1 (0.92%) Redfish
4 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.42%) CUDA
2 6 (5.50%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.75%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (2.75%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.83%) Robotics
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Driving Car
5 2 (1.83%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.92%) Clustering
6 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.92%) Derivative
6 1 (0.92%) NVMe
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 109 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (37.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (17.43%) Unix
3 19 (17.43%) Windows
4 15 (13.76%) Embedded Linux
5 14 (12.84%) Ubuntu
5 14 (12.84%) Windows Server
6 6 (5.50%) CentOS
7 4 (3.67%) AIX
7 4 (3.67%) Rocky
7 4 (3.67%) Solaris
8 3 (2.75%) SUSE
8 3 (2.75%) VMS
9 2 (1.83%) HPUX
10 1 (0.92%) Debian
10 1 (0.92%) Fedora
10 1 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (18.35%) Containerisation
3 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (13.76%) Configuration Management
4 15 (13.76%) Software Engineering
5 14 (12.84%) DevOps
5 14 (12.84%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (11.93%) Agile
7 11 (10.09%) CI/CD
8 9 (8.26%) Migration
8 9 (8.26%) Storage Management
8 9 (8.26%) Task Automation
8 9 (8.26%) Test Automation
9 8 (7.34%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (6.42%) Computer Science
10 7 (6.42%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (5.50%) Server Management
11 6 (5.50%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.86%) Python
2 36 (33.03%) Bash
3 19 (17.43%) C++
4 18 (16.51%) Shell Script
5 10 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.26%) Ada
6 9 (8.26%) C
7 8 (7.34%) Perl
8 7 (6.42%) Ruby
9 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.67%) SQL
11 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.92%) C-shell
12 1 (0.92%) Go
12 1 (0.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) RHCE
4 8 (7.34%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (6.42%) Degree
6 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.67%) CCNP
8 3 (2.75%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.83%) CCIE
9 2 (1.83%) OCA
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.83%) RHCA
9 2 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) SLA
2 3 (2.75%) NIST
2 3 (2.75%) QA
3 2 (1.83%) GDPR
3 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 29 (26.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (14.68%) Docker
3 10 (9.17%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (3.67%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.83%) vSphere
7 1 (0.92%) Firmware
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (33.94%) Ansible
2 22 (20.18%) Kubernetes
3 21 (19.27%) Puppet
4 9 (8.26%) SELinux
4 9 (8.26%) Terraform
5 7 (6.42%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (5.50%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.75%) Nagios
7 3 (2.75%) Packer
7 3 (2.75%) TeamSite
7 3 (2.75%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.75%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.83%) Grafana
8 2 (1.83%) Graylog
8 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.83%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.92%) Cobbler
9 1 (0.92%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 47 (43.12%) Red Hat
2 34 (31.19%) VMware
3 12 (11.01%) Oracle
4 8 (7.34%) Cisco
4 8 (7.34%) Google
5 7 (6.42%) NetApp
5 7 (6.42%) NVIDIA
6 6 (5.50%) Dell
6 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 6 (5.50%) Splunk
6 6 (5.50%) Veritas
7 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.67%) EMC
8 4 (3.67%) HP
8 4 (3.67%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.75%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.75%) Remedy
9 3 (2.75%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.83%) IBM
10 2 (1.83%) Symantec