Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 643 761
Rank change year-on-year +111 +118 -153
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 16 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.049% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.052% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 17
10th Percentile £407 £325 -
25th Percentile £469 £418 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £548 £538
90th Percentile £600 £588 £620
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +7.53%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
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 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in England

Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +111 10 £500 +11.11% 1
North of England +27 2 £505 +3.59%
South West +23 2 £600 -7.69% 3
West Midlands +28 1 - -
Yorkshire +26 1 £505 -
Midlands +24 1 - - 3
North West +11 1 - -
East of England - 1 £535 -
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (62.50%) Red Hat
4 8 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (43.75%) Ansible
5 7 (43.75%) Python
6 6 (37.50%) AWS
6 6 (37.50%) Puppet
7 4 (25.00%) VMware
7 4 (25.00%) IaaS
7 4 (25.00%) Docker
7 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
7 4 (25.00%) Windows
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (18.75%) Banking
8 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
8 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
8 3 (18.75%) SMTP
8 3 (18.75%) DNS
8 3 (18.75%) Sun
8 3 (18.75%) Ruby
8 3 (18.75%) Korn
8 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
8 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (18.75%) TOWER Software

Linux Infrastructure 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) IaaS
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Cloudflare
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) SMTP
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (12.50%) CentOS
5 2 (12.50%) Debian
5 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
4 2 (12.50%) Automated Trading
4 2 (12.50%) Service Management
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) Korn
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 3 (18.75%) PHP
3 3 (18.75%) Ruby
4 1 (6.25%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Puppet
3 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) F5
3 3 (18.75%) Sun
3 3 (18.75%) TOWER Software