LFCS Contract Job Trends in London

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for LFCS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LFCS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.018% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £610 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

LFCS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,562 3,536 3,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.60% 25.93% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,021 2,399 2,710
10th Percentile £375 £338 £330
25th Percentile £453 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 86 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.53 £17.88
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.75% -50.96%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -44.11% -18.18%

LFCS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware