Linux Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Linux
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hereford requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 30.00% 34.62% 33.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile - £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £605 £655 -
Herefordshire median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

All Operating Systems
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 45.00% 34.62% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £531 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +205.56%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £655 -
Herefordshire median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +205.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.46 - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £21.46 £32.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.97% -35.00% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford.

Linux job vacancy trend in Hereford

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Hereford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) InfluxDB
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Site Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Configuration Management
1 5 (83.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Progress Chef
1 5 (83.33%) Prometheus
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Podman