Linux Administrator Contracts in England

Linux Administrator
UK > England

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 618 706
Rank change year-on-year +89 +88 -154
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 12 50 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.097% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.10% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 42
10th Percentile £338 £348 £339
25th Percentile £356 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -
75th Percentile - £559 £506
90th Percentile £465 £654 £575
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £52.69 £23.43
25th Percentile - £60.53 £32.19
Median hourly rate - £73.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +71.76% -
75th Percentile - £75.63 £48.75
90th Percentile - £78.69 £76.05
UK median hourly rate - £73.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +71.76% -

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 34,525 48,539 68,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,000 34,387 48,854
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £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 2,382 1,454 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.43 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Administrator in England

Linux Administrator
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 Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +99 5 £450 - 7
South East +20 5 £363 -35.56% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 5
Linux Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Linux Administrator 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 Administrator in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (33.33%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (25.00%) Puppet
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (16.67%) Cloudflare
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Ansible
6 2 (16.67%) RHCSA
6 2 (16.67%) Security Patching
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (16.67%) Degree
6 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 2 (16.67%) AWS
6 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (16.67%) F5
6 2 (16.67%) Apache
6 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
6 2 (16.67%) SAP
6 2 (16.67%) Windows
6 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (16.67%) SMTP
6 2 (16.67%) Finance

Linux Administrator 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Cloudflare
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Django
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) SUSE
4 1 (8.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (16.67%) Security Patching
2 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.33%) Coaching
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (8.33%) GitOps
2 1 (8.33%) High Availability
2 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (8.33%) Microservices
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Korn
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) RHCSA
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) RHCE
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) KVM
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Qualys