SELinux Contracts in England

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SELinux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SELinux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 536 644
Rank change year-on-year +63 +108 +133
Contract jobs citing SELinux 12 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.016% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.32% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £390 £438 £548
25th Percentile £431 £456 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +59.51%
75th Percentile £549 £513 £728
90th Percentile £575 £563 £779
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £600
% change year-on-year - -20.83% +35.98%

All Systems Management Skills
England

SELinux falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

SELinux
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SELinux in England

SELinux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SELinux in England

SELinux
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SELinux in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SELinux in England

SELinux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SELinux in England

SELinux
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 SELinux within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +41 4 £470 -21.67%
North West - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
South East +45 2 £550 +15.79%
Midlands +23 2 £400 -11.11% 1
West Midlands +15 2 £400 -11.11% 1
South West +46 1 £475 -5.00%
SELinux
UK

SELinux
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) NAS
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Solaris
3 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) High Availability
1 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (25.00%) Use Case
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (16.67%) Information Management
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (16.67%) Runbook
2 2 (16.67%) Server Management
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) C++
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) RHCSA
4 3 (25.00%) RHCE
5 2 (16.67%) Degree
6 1 (8.33%) CISSP
6 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) iptables
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) NFS
3 1 (8.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Nagios
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Splunk
4 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (16.67%) Symantec
4 2 (16.67%) Veritas