Linux Contracts in Glasgow

Linux
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 5 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 114 162 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.00% 17.70% 8.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.69% 70.74% 48.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 102 64
10th Percentile £314 £400 £342
25th Percentile £424 £463 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +28.08% +24.16%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £560
90th Percentile £750 - £621
Scotland median daily rate £595 £525 £493
% change year-on-year +13.33% +6.49% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £51.58 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £57.35 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.46 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +26.08% -25.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.11 -
90th Percentile - £68.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.50 £59.79 £52.81
% change year-on-year +1.19% +13.22% -20.59%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 191 229 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.78% 25.03% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 158 129
10th Percentile £200 £250 £160
25th Percentile £331 £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +20.81%
75th Percentile £628 £676 £540
90th Percentile £750 £750 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.28% +6.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £30.10 £51.14 £16.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £56.25 £18.77
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.55 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +142.20% +100.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.56 £38.52
90th Percentile - £67.88 £45.13
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%

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

Linux
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

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Glasgow

Linux
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 7 (6.14%) SAS
2 6 (5.26%) IIS
3 4 (3.51%) Confluence
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.81%) AWS
2 13 (11.40%) Azure
3 9 (7.89%) IaaS
4 7 (6.14%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.63%) Serverless
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.88%) GCP
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 9 (7.89%) DNS
2 9 (7.89%) HTTP
2 9 (7.89%) SSL
3 8 (7.02%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (7.02%) iSCSI
4 7 (6.14%) DHCP
4 7 (6.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (6.14%) NetScaler
5 6 (5.26%) SAN
6 5 (4.39%) Firewall
7 2 (1.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) DB2
1 5 (4.39%) Oracle Database
1 5 (4.39%) Oracle Database 12c
1 5 (4.39%) Oracle8/8i Database
2 4 (3.51%) MariaDB
2 4 (3.51%) Metadata
2 4 (3.51%) MySQL
3 3 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.88%) Big Data
4 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.88%) HBase
4 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.88%) Power BI
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (14.91%) Git
2 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.39%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.51%) JIRA
5 3 (2.63%) Burp Suite
5 3 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.63%) Selenium
5 3 (2.63%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.75%) GitLab
6 2 (1.75%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.88%) Gatling
7 1 (0.88%) JMeter
7 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (22.81%) Finance
1 26 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.18%) Banking
3 13 (11.40%) Investment Banking
4 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.02%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.81%) Developer
1 26 (22.81%) Python Engineer
2 25 (21.93%) Linux Engineer
3 21 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 15 (13.16%) Linux Developer
6 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (10.53%) Java Scala Developer
7 12 (10.53%) Scala Developer
8 11 (9.65%) Linux Scripter
9 9 (7.89%) Hardware Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Unix Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 8 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Python Developer
11 7 (6.14%) Senior
11 7 (6.14%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.28%) REST
2 7 (6.14%) Flash
2 7 (6.14%) Middleware
2 7 (6.14%) POSIX
3 5 (4.39%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.39%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (4.39%) Twisted
4 3 (2.63%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.63%) Web Services
5 2 (1.75%) Redfish
5 2 (1.75%) RESTful
6 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.88%) Kafka
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.39%) Client/Server
3 5 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.39%) NVMe
4 4 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (36.84%) Unix
2 23 (20.18%) Windows
3 15 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 13 (11.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.26%) CentOS
5 6 (5.26%) Debian
5 6 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.51%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (2.63%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (2.63%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.70%) DevOps
2 28 (24.56%) Agile
3 27 (23.68%) CI/CD
4 21 (18.42%) Software Engineering
5 20 (17.54%) OO
6 19 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (12.28%) High Availability
9 12 (10.53%) Observability
9 12 (10.53%) Task Automation
10 11 (9.65%) Migration
11 10 (8.77%) Containerisation
11 10 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (8.77%) SDLC
11 10 (8.77%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (7.02%) Data Protection
13 8 (7.02%) Investment Management
13 8 (7.02%) Wealth Management
14 7 (6.14%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (60.53%) Python
2 43 (37.72%) Perl
3 35 (30.70%) Java
4 13 (11.40%) Bash
5 12 (10.53%) Scala
6 10 (8.77%) SQL
7 8 (7.02%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.63%) C
10 3 (2.63%) C++
10 3 (2.63%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) MCSA
3 6 (5.26%) MCSE
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.26%) RHCT
4 3 (2.63%) OSCP
5 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.14%) NFS
3 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 6 (5.26%) KVM
4 5 (4.39%) Docker
4 5 (4.39%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (3.51%) Firmware
5 4 (3.51%) GPFS
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.77%) Terraform
3 8 (7.02%) Ansible
4 7 (6.14%) Grafana
5 6 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (3.51%) Data Guard
7 4 (3.51%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (2.63%) Packer
9 2 (1.75%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.75%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.75%) Puppet
10 1 (0.88%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.88%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.88%) Icinga
10 1 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.88%) Kibana
10 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (14.04%) VMware
2 10 (8.77%) F5
2 10 (8.77%) Red Hat
3 9 (7.89%) Oracle
4 6 (5.26%) Citrix
4 6 (5.26%) Veritas
5 5 (4.39%) Google
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.39%) Splunk
6 4 (3.51%) Brocade
6 4 (3.51%) EMC
6 4 (3.51%) IBM
6 4 (3.51%) NetApp
6 4 (3.51%) Sybase
7 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.75%) BMC
7 2 (1.75%) HP
8 1 (0.88%) Dell