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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Linux 183 95 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.95% 11.24% 18.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.62% 53.07% 73.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 49 106
10th Percentile £407 £313 £400
25th Percentile £413 £350 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.55% -12.00% +23.15%
75th Percentile £550 £660 £738
90th Percentile £578 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £468 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -16.89% +7.14% +5.00%
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% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 £67.11
90th Percentile - - £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.25 £59.79
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +9.71%

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 227 179 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 29.71% 21.18% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 115 156
10th Percentile £356 £200 £250
25th Percentile £411 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £606 £676
90th Percentile £575 £745 £750
Scotland median daily rate £464 £425 £479
% change year-on-year +9.06% -11.27% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £30.10 £13.96
25th Percentile - £51.25 £31.12
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +181.45%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £63.56
90th Percentile - - £67.44
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £39.25 £50.12
% change year-on-year -43.95% -21.68% +181.54%

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 16 May 2025.

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 6 (3.28%) Jupyter
2 5 (2.73%) JBoss
3 3 (1.64%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.09%) OpenROAD
4 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.66%) Azure
2 21 (11.48%) AWS
3 12 (6.56%) GitHub
3 12 (6.56%) IaaS
4 7 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.83%) OpenShift
5 6 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.64%) OCI
6 3 (1.64%) SaaS
6 3 (1.64%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.55%) Cohesity
8 1 (0.55%) GCP
8 1 (0.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.28%) DHCP
1 6 (3.28%) DNS
2 5 (2.73%) SAN
3 4 (2.19%) Network Security
3 4 (2.19%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.55%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (22.95%) Relational Database
2 33 (18.03%) DB2
3 29 (15.85%) MongoDB
4 15 (8.20%) KDB
4 15 (8.20%) Kdb+
5 8 (4.37%) RDBMS
5 8 (4.37%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.73%) MySQL
7 3 (1.64%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (1.09%) Power BI
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.55%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (16.94%) JUnit
2 19 (10.38%) Git
3 17 (9.29%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.56%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.92%) JIRA
6 4 (2.19%) Maven
7 3 (1.64%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.64%) PyCharm
7 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.55%) Gatling
8 1 (0.55%) JMeter
8 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (41.53%) Social Skills
2 51 (27.87%) Finance
3 48 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (23.50%) Banking
5 39 (21.31%) Investment Banking
6 21 (11.48%) Front Office
7 10 (5.46%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 94 (51.37%) Developer
2 57 (31.15%) Java Developer
3 33 (18.03%) Linux Developer
3 33 (18.03%) Python Developer
4 21 (11.48%) Python Engineer
4 21 (11.48%) Senior
5 17 (9.29%) Linux Engineer
5 17 (9.29%) Linux Scripter
6 16 (8.74%) SQL Developer
7 14 (7.65%) C++ Developer
8 13 (7.10%) Analyst
8 13 (7.10%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.56%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 12 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) Senior C++ Developer
9 12 (6.56%) Senior Python Developer
10 10 (5.46%) Programmer
10 10 (5.46%) Python Programmer
10 10 (5.46%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.04%) Spring
2 29 (15.85%) Kafka
3 21 (11.48%) JMS
4 9 (4.92%) Spring Boot
5 8 (4.37%) Loki
6 7 (3.83%) Middleware
7 3 (1.64%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.64%) IBM Integration Bus
7 3 (1.64%) LDAP
7 3 (1.64%) pytest
7 3 (1.64%) X-Windows
8 2 (1.09%) .NET
8 2 (1.09%) Java SE
8 2 (1.09%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.55%) Flash
9 1 (0.55%) J2EE
9 1 (0.55%) Java EE
9 1 (0.55%) POSIX
9 1 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.49%) Data Structures
2 22 (12.02%) Equities
3 21 (11.48%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (11.48%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.65%) Virtual Team
5 13 (7.10%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (6.56%) Algorithms
7 9 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.83%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.19%) Derivative
10 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.19%) Mainframe
10 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.64%) Clustering
11 3 (1.64%) Replication
12 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 64 (34.97%) Windows
2 63 (34.43%) Unix
3 18 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (7.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.83%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.19%) AIX
6 4 (2.19%) Solaris
7 1 (0.55%) CentOS
7 1 (0.55%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 61 (33.33%) SDLC
2 57 (31.15%) Agile
3 37 (20.22%) Multithreading
4 32 (17.49%) DevOps
5 30 (16.39%) Software Engineering
6 26 (14.21%) Containerisation
7 23 (12.57%) OO
7 23 (12.57%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (12.02%) Database Tuning
9 21 (11.48%) Open Source
9 21 (11.48%) Storage Management
10 19 (10.38%) CI/CD
10 19 (10.38%) Concurrent Programming
10 19 (10.38%) Data Science
10 19 (10.38%) Test Automation
11 18 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (8.74%) Capacity Management
12 16 (8.74%) High Availability
12 16 (8.74%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 117 (63.93%) Python
2 73 (39.89%) Java
2 73 (39.89%) SQL
3 37 (20.22%) Shell Script
4 30 (16.39%) Perl
5 17 (9.29%) C++
6 10 (5.46%) C#
6 10 (5.46%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.83%) Erlang
8 7 (3.83%) Prolog
9 6 (3.28%) R
10 3 (1.64%) Bash
10 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (1.64%) CISSP
1 3 (1.64%) Degree
2 2 (1.09%) CISM
2 2 (1.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.55%) CASP
3 1 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.55%) GCIA
3 1 (0.55%) GCIH
3 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.46%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.55%) NCSC
3 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (20.22%) Docker
2 15 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 8 (4.37%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.19%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.09%) GPFS
6 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.55%) Firmware
7 1 (0.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (25.14%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.57%) Terraform
3 21 (11.48%) Ansible
4 9 (4.92%) Grafana
4 9 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.19%) Data Guard
5 4 (2.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle Flashback
6 3 (1.64%) Puppet
7 2 (1.09%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.09%) Podman
7 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.09%) RSA Archer
7 2 (1.09%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (18.58%) Sybase
2 23 (12.57%) VMware
3 13 (7.10%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.56%) Veritas
5 11 (6.01%) Oracle
5 11 (6.01%) Splunk
6 8 (4.37%) IBM
7 7 (3.83%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.28%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.64%) Dell
9 3 (1.64%) Netskope
9 3 (1.64%) Proofpoint
9 3 (1.64%) Symantec
10 2 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.09%) Brocade
10 2 (1.09%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.09%) EMC
10 2 (1.09%) Google
10 2 (1.09%) NetApp
10 2 (1.09%) Qualys