Linux Contracts in Hertfordshire

Linux
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +21
Contract jobs citing Linux 80 87 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.59% 10.73% 13.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.47% 37.18% 57.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 63 32
10th Percentile £292 £260 £332
25th Percentile £325 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £453
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +14.92% +13.13%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £552
90th Percentile £705 £648 £655
East of England median daily rate £433 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -3.89% -7.69% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 25
10th Percentile £55.75 - £49.75
25th Percentile - £65.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% +32.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 -
90th Percentile - £74.65 -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +39.53%

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 106 234 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.71% 28.85% 23.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 183 87
10th Percentile £259 £186 £156
25th Percentile £313 £260 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £622 £650 £478
90th Percentile £683 £738 £574
East of England median daily rate £350 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 37
10th Percentile £53.50 £16.56 £18.90
25th Percentile £58.75 £41.01 £39.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +129.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.94 £60.00
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £25.18 £17.75 £20.40
% change year-on-year +41.86% -12.99% +25.54%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Hertfordshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
Stevenage -13 44 £550 +7.84% 13
Hemel Hempstead - 14 £650 - 4
Hatfield - 11 £350 -
Watford - 7 £350 - 2
Hertford - 1 - -
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 13 (16.25%) CMS
2 9 (11.25%) Apache
3 7 (8.75%) IIS
3 7 (8.75%) Tomcat
4 4 (5.00%) NetWeaver
5 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Simulink
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
1 2 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (2.50%) AWS
1 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (2.50%) Serverless
2 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) TCP/IP
2 9 (11.25%) HTTP
3 6 (7.50%) 5G
3 6 (7.50%) H.323
4 5 (6.25%) Ethernet
4 5 (6.25%) NAS
4 5 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (5.00%) FTP
5 4 (5.00%) Wireshark
6 3 (3.75%) DNS
6 3 (3.75%) SMTP
6 3 (3.75%) SSL
7 2 (2.50%) SAN
7 2 (2.50%) Wireless
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.25%) DVB
8 1 (1.25%) Firewall
8 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.00%) SAP BW
2 4 (5.00%) SAP HANA
3 3 (3.75%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.50%) Big Data
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Visual Studio
2 6 (7.50%) Eclipse
3 5 (6.25%) Git
3 5 (6.25%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) gcov
4 4 (5.00%) GDB
4 4 (5.00%) Gradle
4 4 (5.00%) Subversion
5 2 (2.50%) GitLab
6 1 (1.25%) Maven
General
1 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Telecoms
3 10 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Multimedia
5 5 (6.25%) Military
6 4 (5.00%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Aviation
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 14 (17.50%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Analyst
3 12 (15.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) SOC Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) C Software Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Real Time Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Real Time Software Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
4 8 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) C# Software Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Server Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) C++ Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Design Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Web Services
2 5 (6.25%) Node.js
3 4 (5.00%) LDAP
3 4 (5.00%) SAP Basis
3 4 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.50%) REST
5 1 (1.25%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Cyberattack
2 11 (13.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (11.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (8.75%) IVR
5 6 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 5 (6.25%) PKI
7 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) Digital TV
8 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.25%) FPGA
8 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (41.25%) Windows
2 13 (16.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (12.50%) Unix
4 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (6.25%) Solaris
5 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.25%) CentOS
6 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.25%) Software Engineering
2 16 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 13 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (15.00%) Change Management
4 12 (15.00%) Visualisation
5 11 (13.75%) Migration
6 9 (11.25%) Agile
6 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (11.25%) Security Operations
7 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 8 (10.00%) Multithreading
8 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.75%) Data Analysis
8 7 (8.75%) Data Protection
8 7 (8.75%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 7 (8.75%) Mathematical Modelling
9 6 (7.50%) Digital Twin
9 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
9 6 (7.50%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) C++
2 12 (15.00%) C
2 12 (15.00%) Python
3 8 (10.00%) C#
3 8 (10.00%) MATLAB
4 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.50%) Java
6 2 (2.50%) SQL
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.25%) LPIC
6 1 (1.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.75%) Docker
5 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.50%) LXC
5 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.25%) HDFS
6 1 (1.25%) KVM
6 1 (1.25%) NFS
6 1 (1.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Ansible
1 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.75%) SCOM
2 2 (2.50%) Proxmox
2 2 (2.50%) Rancher
2 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (2.50%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.25%) Puppet
3 1 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (36.25%) Microsoft
2 23 (28.75%) VMware
3 18 (22.50%) Red Hat
4 12 (15.00%) Darktrace
4 12 (15.00%) FireEye
4 12 (15.00%) LogRhythm
4 12 (15.00%) Splunk
5 7 (8.75%) Avaya
6 5 (6.25%) NetApp
7 4 (5.00%) Klocwork
7 4 (5.00%) Perforce
7 4 (5.00%) SAP
7 4 (5.00%) Verint
8 3 (3.75%) IronPort
8 3 (3.75%) Symantec
9 2 (2.50%) Dell
9 2 (2.50%) HP
9 2 (2.50%) IBM
10 1 (1.25%) Cisco
10 1 (1.25%) Isilon