Linux Support Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Support Engineer daily rate in England is £240 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 625 774
Rank change year-on-year +91 +149 -148
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 8 26 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.053% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.056% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 3
10th Percentile £234 £575 £309
25th Percentile £235 £600 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £675 £438
Median % change year-on-year -64.44% +54.29% -18.98%
75th Percentile £245 £713 £597
90th Percentile - - £681
UK median daily rate £340 £675 £438
% change year-on-year -49.63% +54.29% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50

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 34,086 46,552 67,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,604 33,063 47,842
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,372 1,853
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.76
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Linux Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support Engineer in England

Linux Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support Engineer in England

Linux Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support Engineer in England

Linux Support 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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
East of England - 3 £240 -
London +74 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £238 -
North of England - 2 £238 - 1
South East +18 1 - -
Linux Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (75.00%) High Availability
3 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 6 (75.00%) Clustering
3 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (62.50%) Release Management
4 5 (62.50%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (62.50%) VPN
4 5 (62.50%) ITIL
5 3 (37.50%) Bash
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) Python
6 2 (25.00%) Korn
6 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (25.00%) CSS
6 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (25.00%) NFS
6 2 (25.00%) tcsh
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Coaching
6 2 (25.00%) systemd
7 1 (12.50%) GitLab
7 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes

Linux Support 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Release Management
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Build Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Database Security
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Korn
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) tcsh
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (62.50%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (25.00%) NFS
5 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) systemd
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Packer
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) vRealize
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Arqiva
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas
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