Linux Support Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Support Engineer daily rate in England is £475, 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 475 531 625
Rank change year-on-year +56 +94 +145
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 10 11 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.030% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.032% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 24
10th Percentile £353 £234 £538
25th Percentile £394 £235 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £240 £675
Median % change year-on-year +97.92% -64.44% +54.29%
75th Percentile £488 £509 £713
90th Percentile - £628 -
UK median daily rate £475 £340 £675
% change year-on-year +39.71% -49.63% +54.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - -

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 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 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
South West - 7 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £475 -
Midlands - 2 £475 -
North of England +18 1 £350 +47.37% 1
North East - 1 £350 -
Linux Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Ubuntu
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) Shell Script
2 7 (70.00%) Middleware
2 7 (70.00%) Ada
2 7 (70.00%) C
2 7 (70.00%) C++
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Unix
4 2 (20.00%) AIX
4 2 (20.00%) SLA
4 2 (20.00%) IBM
4 2 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 2 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) SAN
5 1 (10.00%) Server Migrations
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) AIX
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) ITSM
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Service Management
2 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Ada
1 7 (70.00%) C
1 7 (70.00%) C++
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (70.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow