Linux Contracts in Leicester

Linux
Leicestershire > Leicester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 9.01% - 1.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.25% - 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £498 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +239.29%
75th Percentile £575 - £488
90th Percentile £583 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £520 £350 £468
% change year-on-year +48.57% -25.13% +233.93%

All Operating Systems
Leicester

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 Leicester with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 26 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 28.83% 22.81% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 20
10th Percentile £120 £230 £189
25th Percentile £126 £313 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +15.38% +2.04%
75th Percentile £568 £418 £339
90th Percentile £589 - £358
Leicestershire median daily rate £338 £350 £289
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.11% +44.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £13.16 £23.00
25th Percentile - £13.85 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% +250.76%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £46.67
90th Percentile - £22.00 -
Leicestershire median hourly rate - £15.00 £43.34
% change year-on-year - -65.39% +237.76%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Leicester

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Leicester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) AIX
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (10.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (10.00%) High Availability
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL
1 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (10.00%) Statistics
1 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (10.00%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Brocade
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec