Linux Engineer Contracts in England

Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 456 519
Rank change year-on-year +40 +63 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 133 195 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 144 184
10th Percentile £375 £401 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.73% +12.37%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £625
90th Percentile £650 £746 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £525
% change year-on-year -7.57% +8.19% +16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 19
10th Percentile £57.75 - £58.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £61.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.24%

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
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 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in England

Linux 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +26 46 £550 -8.33% 18
South East +32 34 £500 -9.09% 11
East of England +27 19 £550 +4.76% 7
North of England +32 18 £450 -8.86% 5
South West +24 10 £550 +10.00% 13
North West +17 9 £425 +21.43% 4
Yorkshire +24 8 £613 +11.87% 1
Midlands +15 5 £500 +7.24% 4
West Midlands +8 3 £450 -15.09%
East Midlands +21 2 £500 +18.34% 4
North East +15 1 £431 -17.90%
Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Linux 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Linux
2 49 (36.84%) Red Hat
3 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
4 40 (30.08%) Ansible
5 38 (28.57%) Python
6 36 (27.07%) VMware
7 33 (24.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (24.06%) Bash
9 30 (22.56%) Kubernetes
10 28 (21.05%) CI/CD
11 27 (20.30%) Unix
12 26 (19.55%) VMware Infrastructure
13 25 (18.80%) AWS
13 25 (18.80%) Windows
14 22 (16.54%) Jenkins
15 21 (15.79%) DV Cleared
16 20 (15.04%) Azure
16 20 (15.04%) Puppet
17 19 (14.29%) Git
18 18 (13.53%) TCP/IP
18 18 (13.53%) Finance
18 18 (13.53%) Data Centre
19 17 (12.78%) Linux Command Line
19 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
19 17 (12.78%) Software Engineering
20 16 (12.03%) Agile
20 16 (12.03%) DNS
20 16 (12.03%) C++
20 16 (12.03%) Social Skills
21 15 (11.28%) Oracle

Linux 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 11 (8.27%) Apache
2 7 (5.26%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.01%) MQSeries
3 4 (3.01%) nginx
4 3 (2.26%) Confluence
5 2 (1.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.75%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.80%) AWS
2 20 (15.04%) Azure
3 10 (7.52%) IaaS
4 6 (4.51%) Cloudflare
4 6 (4.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.51%) GitHub
4 6 (4.51%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.76%) Datadog
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.26%) CloudFront
7 3 (2.26%) Route 53
7 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.26%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.50%) Fastly
8 2 (1.50%) Serverless
9 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.53%) TCP/IP
2 16 (12.03%) DNS
3 15 (11.28%) HTTP
4 12 (9.02%) Firewall
5 11 (8.27%) SSL
6 9 (6.77%) VPN
7 6 (4.51%) SAN
7 6 (4.51%) SMTP
8 5 (3.76%) Network Security
9 4 (3.01%) FTP
9 4 (3.01%) HTTPS
9 4 (3.01%) IPsec
9 4 (3.01%) tcpdump
9 4 (3.01%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.50%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.75%) DHCP
11 1 (0.75%) DMZ
11 1 (0.75%) Modbus
11 1 (0.75%) MQTT
11 1 (0.75%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.02%) MongoDB
1 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.51%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.51%) RDBMS
2 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.76%) MySQL
4 4 (3.01%) Big Data
5 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.29%) Git
3 12 (9.02%) GitLab
4 7 (5.26%) Artifactory
4 7 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.76%) JIRA
6 3 (2.26%) Gradle
7 2 (1.50%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.50%) Subversion
8 1 (0.75%) Ant
8 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.75%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.75%) Maven
8 1 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.75%) TestRail
8 1 (0.75%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (13.53%) Finance
2 16 (12.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.76%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.01%) Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Electronics
5 4 (3.01%) Marketing
5 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.50%) German Language
6 2 (1.50%) Italian Language
6 2 (1.50%) Law
6 2 (1.50%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.75%) Advertising
7 1 (0.75%) Aviation
7 1 (0.75%) Front Office
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.76%) XML
1 5 (3.76%) YAML
2 4 (3.01%) JSON
2 4 (3.01%) LDAP
3 3 (2.26%) CSS
3 3 (2.26%) RESTful
3 3 (2.26%) SOAP
3 3 (2.26%) Spring
3 3 (2.26%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.26%) Web Services
4 2 (1.50%) Django
4 2 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.50%) HornetQ
4 2 (1.50%) Kafka
4 2 (1.50%) Middleware
4 2 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.50%) VCL
5 1 (0.75%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.75%) Node.js
5 1 (0.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Data Centre
2 17 (12.78%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.51%) Clustering
4 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.26%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.50%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) PKI
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 133 (100.00%) Linux
2 33 (24.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (20.30%) Unix
4 25 (18.80%) Windows
5 15 (11.28%) Solaris
6 13 (9.77%) Windows Server
7 11 (8.27%) VMS
8 10 (7.52%) Debian
9 9 (6.77%) Ubuntu
10 7 (5.26%) CentOS
11 5 (3.76%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (2.26%) SUSE
13 1 (0.75%) AIX
13 1 (0.75%) Fedora
13 1 (0.75%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.05%) CI/CD
2 17 (12.78%) Software Engineering
3 16 (12.03%) Agile
4 14 (10.53%) ITIL
4 14 (10.53%) Migration
4 14 (10.53%) Scrum
5 13 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (8.27%) DevOps
6 11 (8.27%) High Availability
6 11 (8.27%) Runbook
7 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (7.52%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (7.52%) Project Delivery
8 9 (6.77%) Change Management
8 9 (6.77%) Containerisation
8 9 (6.77%) Multithreading
8 9 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (6.77%) Visualisation
9 8 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.02%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.57%) Python
2 32 (24.06%) Bash
3 16 (12.03%) C++
4 15 (11.28%) Shell Script
5 13 (9.77%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.77%) C
7 8 (6.02%) Perl
8 7 (5.26%) Java
8 7 (5.26%) MATLAB
8 7 (5.26%) SQL
9 5 (3.76%) C#
10 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.26%) Korn
10 3 (2.26%) PHP
11 2 (1.50%) tcsh
12 1 (0.75%) Groovy
12 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.75%) Ruby
12 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.02%) Degree
5 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) LPIC
7 1 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.50%) GDPR
2 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (10.53%) Docker
3 11 (8.27%) vSphere
4 9 (6.77%) Active Directory
4 9 (6.77%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.51%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.76%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (3.01%) Firmware
7 4 (3.01%) Samba
8 3 (2.26%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.26%) VirtualBox
8 3 (2.26%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.50%) Ceph
9 2 (1.50%) NFS
9 2 (1.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.50%) Varnish
9 2 (1.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.75%) iptables
10 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (30.08%) Ansible
2 30 (22.56%) Kubernetes
3 20 (15.04%) Puppet
4 13 (9.77%) Progress Chef
5 10 (7.52%) Red Hat Satellite
5 10 (7.52%) Terraform
6 7 (5.26%) Packer
6 7 (5.26%) vRealize
7 5 (3.76%) Rancher
7 5 (3.76%) SCOM
7 5 (3.76%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 4 (3.01%) SELinux
9 3 (2.26%) Grafana
9 3 (2.26%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.26%) Podman
10 2 (1.50%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.50%) systemd
11 1 (0.75%) Kibana
11 1 (0.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 49 (36.84%) Red Hat
2 36 (27.07%) VMware
3 15 (11.28%) Oracle
4 7 (5.26%) Veritas
5 6 (4.51%) Dell
5 6 (4.51%) F5
5 6 (4.51%) IBM
6 5 (3.76%) Arqiva
6 5 (3.76%) HP
6 5 (3.76%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.01%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.01%) Cisco
7 4 (3.01%) SAP
8 3 (2.26%) Sun
9 1 (0.75%) Google
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.75%) Splunk
9 1 (0.75%) Symantec
9 1 (0.75%) Temenos
9 1 (0.75%) TOWER Software