Linux Specialist Contracts in England

Linux Specialist
UK > England

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in England is £440, 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 480 524 645
Rank change year-on-year +44 +121 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 5 18 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.048% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.052% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile £260 - £526
25th Percentile £278 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £250 £550
Median % change year-on-year +76.00% -54.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £363 £588
90th Percentile £645 £425 £625
UK median daily rate £350 £250 £550
% change year-on-year +40.00% -54.55% -12.00%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Specialist in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Specialist in England

Linux Specialist
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 Specialist 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
London +28 3 £285 +14.00% 2
South West - 2 £558 -
Linux Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Server Management
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) NAS
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Electronics
3 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence

Linux Specialist 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Fidessa
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (20.00%) Bitcoin
2 1 (20.00%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Rocky
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Server Management
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (20.00%) CQG
3 1 (20.00%) ION Trading
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Patsystems
3 1 (20.00%) Reuters
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Trayport