Senior Linux Systems Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior Linux Systems Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £454, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Systems Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 - -
East of England median daily rate £454 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 447 441 701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.86% 94.23% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 193 407
10th Percentile £244 £263 £263
25th Percentile £414 £333 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £675
90th Percentile £709 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 99 148
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.10 £17.74
25th Percentile £24.90 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £48.29 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £66.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.05 £47.50 £43.15
% change year-on-year -36.73% +10.08% +117.82%

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Linux Systems Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Senior Linux Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Senior Linux Systems Engineer
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 Senior Linux Systems Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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 - 1 £454 - 2
Senior Linux Systems Engineer
East of England

Senior Linux Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, Senior Linux Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Senior Linux Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management

Senior Linux Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow