Linux/Unix DevOps Contracts in England

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > England

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 650 722
Rank change year-on-year +120 +72 -161
Contract jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 7 12 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.024% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.025% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 33
10th Percentile - £395 £470
25th Percentile £515 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £725 £625
90th Percentile - £750 £730
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +6.98%

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 34,367 47,420 67,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,815 33,680 48,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,403 1,897
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in England

Linux/Unix DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in England

Linux/Unix DevOps
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/Unix DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 +94 5 £600 +33.33% 1
South East - 2 £530 - 1
Linux/Unix DevOps
UK

Linux/Unix DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Linux/Unix DevOps 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/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 4 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
3 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
3 4 (57.14%) Artifactory
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) YAML
4 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Bash
4 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Gradle
4 3 (42.86%) GitLab
4 3 (42.86%) Docker
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) Spring
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Java

Linux/Unix DevOps 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) nginx
3 1 (14.29%) JBoss
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 3 (42.86%) WhatsApp
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) CloudFront
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) Fastly
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Route 53
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Artifactory
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) Ant
4 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) YAML
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) HornetQ
2 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (28.57%) VCL
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Debian
4 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Varnish
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) HAProxy
5 1 (14.29%) Podman
5 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat