Linux Contracts in Essex

Linux
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux 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 12 9 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 23 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 10.00% 10.36% 3.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 56.10% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile £363 £295 £257
25th Percentile - £300 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £370 £583
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -36.54% -0.51%
75th Percentile £428 £447 -
90th Percentile £519 £492 -
East of England median daily rate £490 £433 £450
% change year-on-year +13.29% -3.89% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £58.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.08% -7.69% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
Essex

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14 41 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 17.50% 18.47% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 22
10th Percentile £231 £121 £153
25th Percentile £243 £194 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £220
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +36.36% -54.64%
75th Percentile £400 £475 £522
90th Percentile £438 £547 £648
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £13.73 £20.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.04 £20.85
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.04 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +20.27% -17.95%
75th Percentile £23.75 £48.98 £24.62
90th Percentile - £64.59 -
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Essex

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Essex

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Essex 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
Brentwood 0 6 £400 +30.08% 3
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Gerrit
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) C Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DTV Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) POSIX
2 3 (37.50%) Yocto
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Device Driver
2 3 (37.50%) STB
3 2 (25.00%) Digital TV
3 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Coaching
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Product Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Apple
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat