Senior Linux Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Linux Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 647 784
Rank change year-on-year +106 +137 -160
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 7 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.018% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.019% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile - £410 £498
25th Percentile £463 £456 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £950
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -45.32% +58.33%
75th Percentile £525 £548 -
90th Percentile £585 £622 -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £750
% change year-on-year -4.76% -30.00% +30.43%

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £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 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Linux Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +24 5 £488 -9.26% 1
London +109 2 £600 +33.33% 5
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

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

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

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) Ansible
4 3 (42.86%) SOLID
4 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
4 3 (42.86%) Storyboarding
4 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) OOD
4 3 (42.86%) UML
4 3 (42.86%) OO
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) C#
4 3 (42.86%) C++
4 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Git
5 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Embedded Linux

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) NFC
1 1 (14.29%) PPP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 1 (14.29%) GoogleTest
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (14.29%) TestRail
2 1 (14.29%) Valgrind
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Electronics
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (14.29%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) Kanban
2 3 (42.86%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) OOD
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) SOLID
2 3 (42.86%) Storyboarding
2 3 (42.86%) UML
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) C++
4 2 (28.57%) Perl
5 1 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) Korn
5 1 (14.29%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (14.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) SAP