Linux Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Linux
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 3 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 1.44% - 12.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £249
25th Percentile £306 - £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £449
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.29%
75th Percentile £319 - £474
90th Percentile - - £530
East Midlands median daily rate £481 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +14.52% -1.18% -22.73%

All Operating Systems
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 32 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 7.21% 22.86% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 18
10th Percentile £131 £131 £159
25th Percentile £230 £172 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £438 £329
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +33.08% +152.88%
75th Percentile £335 £469 £474
90th Percentile £403 £476 £506
East Midlands median daily rate £385 £420 £388
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.39% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +2.39% +4.01% +36.46%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
Leicester - 3 £313 - 4
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) VMware