Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 526 632
Rank change year-on-year +60 +106 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 19 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.043% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.046% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 15
10th Percentile £278 £407 £325
25th Percentile £385 £469 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +3.96% +12.22%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £573
90th Percentile - £600 £588
UK median daily rate £460 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -12.38% +3.96% +6.32%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North of England +23 6 £550 +8.91%
London +33 5 £470 -6.00% 2
Midlands +26 5 - -
West Midlands +18 5 - -
Yorkshire +11 4 £550 +8.91%
North West +18 2 £385 -
South East - 2 - - 1
South West +45 1 £460 -23.33% 1
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (94.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (68.42%) Windows
4 12 (63.16%) Windows Server
5 10 (52.63%) VMware
6 8 (42.11%) Bash
7 7 (36.84%) SAN
7 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
8 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (31.58%) Storage Management
8 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
8 6 (31.58%) Manufacturing
8 6 (31.58%) DNS
8 6 (31.58%) NAS
9 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
9 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
9 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
9 5 (26.32%) Python
9 5 (26.32%) Server Management
9 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
10 4 (21.05%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (21.05%) Oracle Database
10 4 (21.05%) DevOps
10 4 (21.05%) SQL
10 4 (21.05%) Oracle
10 4 (21.05%) LAN
10 4 (21.05%) Migration
10 4 (21.05%) Cisco

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 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) SAN
2 6 (31.58%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) NAS
3 4 (21.05%) LAN
4 3 (15.79%) DHCP
4 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 3 (15.79%) SSL
5 2 (10.53%) BIG-IP
5 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (5.26%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Maven
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (68.42%) Windows
3 12 (63.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.26%) CentOS
5 1 (5.26%) Debian
5 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Storage Management
3 5 (26.32%) Server Management
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) Security Management
5 3 (15.79%) SOA
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) ITIL
6 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
6 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
6 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Bash
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Perl
4 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) SELinux
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Nessus
2 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) VMware
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) Dell
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) F5
4 2 (10.53%) SAP
5 1 (5.26%) Sophos