PetaLinux Contract Job Trends in England

Xilinx PetaLinux Tools
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PetaLinux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PetaLinux 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
England

PetaLinux falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,373 4,023 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.74% 14.46% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,415 2,780 2,832
10th Percentile £353 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 97 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £32.74
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - +4.00%

PetaLinux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PetaLinux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

PetaLinux job vacancy trend in England

PetaLinux
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 PetaLinux within the England region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. 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 - 1 £600 - 1
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
PetaLinux
UK

PetaLinux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (50.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA
1 2 (100.00%) Verilog
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
2 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Xilinx