Linux Contracts in England

Linux
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 1,861 3,284 4,593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.11% 6.82% 6.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.64% 41.97% 41.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 2,302 3,118
10th Percentile £329 £410 £403
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £648 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 146 150
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.75 £35.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £49.76 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.73
Median % change year-on-year - +12.60% +20.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
England

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,944 7,824 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 16.24% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 5,533 7,535
10th Percentile £185 £193 £175
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 370 532
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.38
25th Percentile £14.83 £17.73 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in England

Linux
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 -13 799 £560 -10.40% 389
South East -3 397 £529 -0.19% 235
South West -7 193 £563 +2.27% 195
North of England -9 188 £478 -13.18% 142
Midlands 0 123 £545 +0.93% 122
East of England +1 112 £550 +22.22% 117
Yorkshire +9 109 £493 -10.45% 50
West Midlands -8 77 £550 +1.85% 57
North West -48 67 £450 -17.43% 81
East Midlands +23 46 £505 +12.29% 65
North East -7 12 £575 +4.55% 12
Linux
UK

Linux
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
1 105 (5.64%) Confluence
2 66 (3.55%) nginx
3 61 (3.28%) Apache
4 49 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 49 (2.63%) OpenStack
5 22 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 17 (0.91%) CMS
6 17 (0.91%) IIS
6 17 (0.91%) JBoss
7 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.70%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.59%) NetWeaver
10 10 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (0.38%) SAS
12 6 (0.32%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 4 (0.21%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.21%) Luigi
13 4 (0.21%) MQSeries
14 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.54%) Simulink
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.64%) ION Anvil
2 11 (0.59%) SAP IBP
3 8 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.38%) Temenos T24
5 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.27%) Endur
6 5 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.16%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.16%) Global One
8 3 (0.16%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.16%) Shopify
9 2 (0.11%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.11%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.11%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.11%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.11%) RMDS
10 1 (0.054%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 415 (22.30%) AWS
2 388 (20.85%) Azure
3 108 (5.80%) GitHub
4 94 (5.05%) GCP
5 72 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (3.82%) PaaS
7 63 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.85%) OpenShift
9 52 (2.79%) Serverless
10 50 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 44 (2.36%) Entra ID
12 43 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (1.93%) SaaS
14 32 (1.72%) IaaS
15 29 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (1.45%) Azure AKS
16 27 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
17 26 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 170 (9.13%) Firewall
2 143 (7.68%) DNS
3 115 (6.18%) SAN
4 107 (5.75%) TCP/IP
5 83 (4.46%) DHCP
6 58 (3.12%) WAN
7 57 (3.06%) VPN
8 49 (2.63%) SSL
9 48 (2.58%) Network Security
10 46 (2.47%) HTTP
10 46 (2.47%) LAN
11 38 (2.04%) Wireless
12 37 (1.99%) VLAN
13 31 (1.67%) NAS
14 27 (1.45%) FTP
15 24 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
15 24 (1.29%) SNMP
15 24 (1.29%) SSH
16 23 (1.24%) Fibre Channel
17 22 (1.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 84 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 81 (4.35%) MySQL
4 76 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
7 43 (2.31%) NoSQL
8 42 (2.26%) RDBMS
9 37 (1.99%) Big Data
10 36 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (1.83%) Oracle Database
12 19 (1.02%) DB2
13 18 (0.97%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.91%) KDB
14 17 (0.91%) Power BI
15 16 (0.86%) SAP HANA
16 14 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (0.59%) SAP BW
18 10 (0.54%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 218 (11.71%) Jenkins
2 192 (10.32%) Git
3 154 (8.28%) JIRA
4 132 (7.09%) GitLab
5 78 (4.19%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.67%) Eclipse
7 28 (1.50%) Robot Framework
8 26 (1.40%) Artifactory
8 26 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (1.34%) GoogleTest
10 24 (1.29%) Visual Studio
11 23 (1.24%) TeamCity
12 21 (1.13%) Mockito
12 21 (1.13%) Selenium
12 21 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (0.97%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.91%) Subversion
15 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
16 15 (0.81%) JMeter
17 14 (0.75%) Cucumber
General
1 400 (21.49%) Social Skills
2 270 (14.51%) Finance
3 193 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 116 (6.23%) Banking
6 70 (3.76%) Telecoms
7 44 (2.36%) Aerospace
8 43 (2.31%) Investment Banking
9 38 (2.04%) Front Office
10 32 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.67%) Marketing
12 30 (1.61%) Electronics
13 29 (1.56%) Legal
13 29 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.97%) Military
15 14 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.64%) Retail
18 10 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 255 (13.70%) Developer
2 182 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 164 (8.81%) Senior
4 136 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 134 (7.20%) Linux Engineer
6 117 (6.29%) Software Engineer
7 111 (5.96%) Analyst
8 109 (5.86%) Architect
9 69 (3.71%) Lead
10 67 (3.60%) Support Engineer
11 61 (3.28%) Java Developer
12 60 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
13 58 (3.12%) Administrator
14 57 (3.06%) Consultant
15 51 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
16 49 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 47 (2.53%) Senior Developer
18 46 (2.47%) Network Engineer
19 44 (2.36%) Storage Engineer
20 42 (2.26%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (5.32%) Kafka
2 80 (4.30%) HTML
3 75 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
4 65 (3.49%) CSS
5 64 (3.44%) .NET
6 55 (2.96%) Web Services
7 51 (2.74%) JSON
8 49 (2.63%) LDAP
8 49 (2.63%) REST
9 43 (2.31%) Spring
10 42 (2.26%) YAML
11 40 (2.15%) Node.js
12 39 (2.10%) FIX Protocol
13 36 (1.93%) XML
14 35 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
15 34 (1.83%) Middleware
16 31 (1.67%) .NET Core
17 30 (1.61%) RESTful
18 29 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
18 29 (1.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 124 (6.66%) Data Centre
2 112 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
3 81 (4.35%) PKI
4 74 (3.98%) Replication
5 67 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 58 (3.12%) Public Cloud
7 55 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
8 43 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (1.99%) Clustering
11 35 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.77%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (1.61%) Derivative
15 29 (1.56%) Onboarding
16 27 (1.45%) Client/Server
17 25 (1.34%) Fixed Income
17 25 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
18 24 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
19 23 (1.24%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 713 (38.31%) Windows
2 364 (19.56%) Unix
3 229 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 187 (10.05%) Windows Server
5 84 (4.51%) Ubuntu
6 64 (3.44%) CentOS
7 57 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 56 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 49 (2.63%) Solaris
10 37 (1.99%) VMS
11 34 (1.83%) zOS
12 33 (1.77%) Mac OS X
13 31 (1.67%) Apple iOS
13 31 (1.67%) Debian
14 30 (1.61%) AIX
15 27 (1.45%) Android
16 25 (1.34%) Windows 10
17 23 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
18 22 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
19 19 (1.02%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (22.14%) Agile
2 399 (21.44%) DevOps
3 376 (20.20%) CI/CD
4 244 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
5 209 (11.23%) Software Engineering
6 204 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 184 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 161 (8.65%) ITIL
9 158 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
10 148 (7.95%) Configuration Management
11 138 (7.42%) Scrum
12 136 (7.31%) Migration
13 126 (6.77%) Test Automation
14 124 (6.66%) Containerisation
15 123 (6.61%) Continuous Integration
16 109 (5.86%) Disaster Recovery
17 108 (5.80%) Microservices
18 103 (5.53%) Computer Science
19 94 (5.05%) Task Automation
19 94 (5.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 523 (28.10%) Python
2 243 (13.06%) PowerShell
3 239 (12.84%) Java
4 228 (12.25%) SQL
5 193 (10.37%) Bash
6 160 (8.60%) C++
7 135 (7.25%) JavaScript
8 126 (6.77%) C#
9 119 (6.39%) C
10 115 (6.18%) Shell Script
11 69 (3.71%) Go
12 62 (3.33%) Perl
13 43 (2.31%) PHP
14 37 (1.99%) VBScript
15 28 (1.50%) T-SQL
16 23 (1.24%) Bicep
17 21 (1.13%) Embedded C
18 20 (1.07%) JCL
19 19 (1.02%) VB
20 18 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 682 (36.65%) Security Cleared
2 427 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 287 (15.42%) DV Cleared
4 181 (9.73%) Degree
5 59 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.67%) CCNA
9 24 (1.29%) CCNP
10 23 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 17 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 17 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.81%) OSCP
13 14 (0.75%) Azure Certification
14 13 (0.70%) GIAC
15 11 (0.59%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.54%) CISSP
16 10 (0.54%) CREST Certified
16 10 (0.54%) MCSE
17 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.12%) QA
2 45 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (2.31%) NIST
4 38 (2.04%) GDPR
5 31 (1.67%) SLA
6 19 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.86%) HIPAA
8 13 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.64%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.59%) MISRA
11 10 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.54%) ISO 9000
12 7 (0.38%) NCSC
13 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.16%) JTAG
16 2 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 249 (13.38%) Docker
2 232 (12.47%) Active Directory
3 213 (11.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 90 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
5 69 (3.71%) Hyper-V
5 69 (3.71%) VMware ESXi
6 68 (3.65%) vSphere
7 59 (3.17%) VMware NSX
8 42 (2.26%) NFS
9 40 (2.15%) Firmware
10 26 (1.40%) KVM
11 20 (1.07%) Time Sharing Option
12 18 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
13 17 (0.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 13 (0.70%) HDFS
15 11 (0.59%) iptables
16 7 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 6 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 6 (0.32%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.27%) Samba
Systems Management
1 367 (19.72%) Ansible
2 312 (16.77%) Kubernetes
3 265 (14.24%) Terraform
4 105 (5.64%) Grafana
5 103 (5.53%) Puppet
6 97 (5.21%) Prometheus
7 76 (4.08%) SCCM
8 51 (2.74%) Progress Chef
9 45 (2.42%) SCOM
10 44 (2.36%) NetBackup
11 43 (2.31%) WSUS
12 38 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
12 38 (2.04%) vCenter Server
13 37 (1.99%) Kibana
14 35 (1.88%) Packer
15 31 (1.67%) EMC NetWorker
16 27 (1.45%) logstash
17 26 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
18 25 (1.34%) PowerCLI
18 25 (1.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 337 (18.11%) VMware
2 326 (17.52%) Microsoft
3 193 (10.37%) Red Hat
4 186 (9.99%) Oracle
5 110 (5.91%) IBM
6 104 (5.59%) Dell
7 96 (5.16%) Cisco
8 88 (4.73%) Splunk
9 73 (3.92%) HP
10 61 (3.28%) Google
11 59 (3.17%) Atlassian
12 57 (3.06%) SAP
13 43 (2.31%) Brocade
14 40 (2.15%) EMC
14 40 (2.15%) ServiceNow
15 37 (1.99%) Veeam
16 33 (1.77%) Veritas
17 31 (1.67%) Palo Alto
18 30 (1.61%) F5
19 28 (1.50%) Symantec