Linux Contracts in Glasgow

Linux
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 7 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 194 113 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.31% 12.88% 18.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.98% 59.79% 71.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 61 106
10th Percentile £406 £313 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £575 £646
Median % change year-on-year -19.39% -11.03% +27.34%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £750
90th Percentile £581 £750 -
Scotland median daily rate £468 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -20.76% +12.38% +6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £51.58
25th Percentile - £57.50 £57.35
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £62.46
Median % change year-on-year - -3.94% +26.08%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £67.11
90th Percentile - - £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year - +1.19% +13.22%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 231 189 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.95% 21.55% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 121 162
10th Percentile £393 £200 £250
25th Percentile £413 £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £629 £676
90th Percentile £576 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £30.10 £51.14
25th Percentile - £51.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -0.91% +142.20%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £66.56
90th Percentile - - £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (3.09%) Jupyter
2 5 (2.58%) JBoss
3 3 (1.55%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.03%) OpenROAD
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.89%) AWS
1 25 (12.89%) Azure
2 10 (5.15%) GitHub
2 10 (5.15%) IaaS
3 7 (3.61%) OpenShift
4 5 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.55%) OCI
6 3 (1.55%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.03%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.52%) Cohesity
8 1 (0.52%) GCP
8 1 (0.52%) PaaS
8 1 (0.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) DHCP
1 6 (3.09%) DNS
2 5 (2.58%) SAN
3 4 (2.06%) Network Security
3 4 (2.06%) VPN
4 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.52%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (22.68%) Relational Database
2 36 (18.56%) DB2
3 30 (15.46%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.22%) KDB
4 14 (7.22%) Kdb+
5 9 (4.64%) MySQL
5 9 (4.64%) RDBMS
6 8 (4.12%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.06%) MariaDB
7 4 (2.06%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.55%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.03%) Power BI
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 32 (16.49%) JUnit
2 15 (7.73%) Git
3 13 (6.70%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.15%) Bitbucket
4 10 (5.15%) JIRA
5 4 (2.06%) Maven
6 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.52%) Gatling
6 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 51 (26.29%) Finance
3 49 (25.26%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (23.20%) Banking
5 40 (20.62%) Investment Banking
6 22 (11.34%) Front Office
7 13 (6.70%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 102 (52.58%) Developer
2 64 (32.99%) Java Developer
3 33 (17.01%) Linux Developer
4 31 (15.98%) Python Developer
5 22 (11.34%) Senior
6 19 (9.79%) Linux Scripter
7 18 (9.28%) Python Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) Linux Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) SQL Developer
9 13 (6.70%) Analyst
9 13 (6.70%) C++ Developer
9 13 (6.70%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.67%) Programmer
10 11 (5.67%) Python Programmer
10 11 (5.67%) Senior C++ Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Senior Python Developer
10 11 (5.67%) Technical Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.29%) Spring
2 32 (16.49%) Kafka
3 21 (10.82%) JMS
4 18 (9.28%) Spring Boot
5 10 (5.15%) Middleware
6 8 (4.12%) Loki
7 4 (2.06%) J2EE
8 3 (1.55%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.55%) IBM Integration Bus
8 3 (1.55%) LDAP
8 3 (1.55%) pytest
8 3 (1.55%) REST
8 3 (1.55%) SOAP
8 3 (1.55%) X-Windows
9 2 (1.03%) .NET
9 2 (1.03%) Java SE
9 2 (1.03%) MSMQ
10 1 (0.52%) Flash
10 1 (0.52%) Java EE
10 1 (0.52%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.04%) Data Structures
2 21 (10.82%) Equities
3 20 (10.31%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (10.31%) Management Information System
4 15 (7.73%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.70%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (6.19%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (5.67%) Virtual Team
8 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
9 7 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (3.09%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (2.58%) Product Ownership
12 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (2.06%) Mainframe
13 3 (1.55%) Clustering
13 3 (1.55%) Derivative
13 3 (1.55%) Replication
14 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
15 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 72 (37.11%) Unix
2 63 (32.47%) Windows
3 18 (9.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (6.70%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.61%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.09%) AIX
7 4 (2.06%) Solaris
8 1 (0.52%) CentOS
8 1 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.52%) VMS
8 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (31.96%) SDLC
3 57 (29.38%) Agile
4 40 (20.62%) Multithreading
5 33 (17.01%) Software Engineering
6 30 (15.46%) DevOps
7 25 (12.89%) Containerisation
7 25 (12.89%) OO
8 23 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (11.34%) Storage Management
10 21 (10.82%) Concurrent Programming
10 21 (10.82%) Database Tuning
10 21 (10.82%) Open Source
11 18 (9.28%) Data Protection
11 18 (9.28%) Data Science
11 18 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (8.76%) Capacity Management
12 17 (8.76%) CI/CD
12 17 (8.76%) Technical Analysis
13 16 (8.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (58.76%) Python
2 83 (42.78%) Java
3 77 (39.69%) SQL
4 43 (22.16%) Shell Script
5 30 (15.46%) Perl
6 16 (8.25%) C++
7 12 (6.19%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.12%) C#
8 8 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.61%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.09%) R
11 5 (2.58%) Erlang
11 5 (2.58%) Prolog
12 3 (1.55%) Bash
12 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.03%) CISM
1 2 (1.03%) CISSP
1 2 (1.03%) Degree
1 2 (1.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 37 (19.07%) Docker
2 14 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 8 (4.12%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (2.58%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.06%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.03%) GPFS
7 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.52%) Firmware
8 1 (0.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 44 (22.68%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.89%) Terraform
3 21 (10.82%) Ansible
4 9 (4.64%) Grafana
4 9 (4.64%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.58%) Puppet
6 4 (2.06%) Data Guard
6 4 (2.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (2.06%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.03%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.03%) Podman
8 2 (1.03%) RSA Archer
8 2 (1.03%) SCCM
8 2 (1.03%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 1 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (17.53%) Sybase
2 24 (12.37%) VMware
3 15 (7.73%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.19%) Veritas
5 11 (5.67%) Oracle
5 11 (5.67%) Splunk
6 8 (4.12%) IBM
7 7 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.09%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.55%) Dell
9 3 (1.55%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.55%) Netskope
9 3 (1.55%) Proofpoint
9 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.55%) Symantec
10 2 (1.03%) Brocade
10 2 (1.03%) EMC
10 2 (1.03%) Google
10 2 (1.03%) NetApp
10 2 (1.03%) Qualys