Linux Engineer Contracts in London

Linux Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 343 380
Rank change year-on-year +22 +37 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 32 48 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.29% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 92
10th Percentile £354 £407 £428
25th Percentile £459 £450 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -9.38% +2.39%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £713
90th Percentile £638 £650 £795
England median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -1.00% -8.70% +8.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +6 3 £575 +31.43% 8
North London - 2 £270 -
South London - 1 £470 -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (62.50%) Ansible
3 19 (59.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (56.25%) Python
5 17 (53.13%) Bash
6 14 (43.75%) Puppet
6 14 (43.75%) VMware
6 14 (43.75%) Kubernetes
7 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
8 12 (37.50%) AWS
8 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
9 11 (34.38%) DevOps
9 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
9 11 (34.38%) Finance
9 11 (34.38%) Unix
10 10 (31.25%) Configuration Management
10 10 (31.25%) Azure
10 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
11 9 (28.13%) Terraform
11 9 (28.13%) Docker
12 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
12 7 (21.88%) GCP
12 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (18.75%) Task Automation
13 6 (18.75%) Server Management
13 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
13 6 (18.75%) Windows
13 6 (18.75%) SAN

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
2 2 (6.25%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) CloudBees
6 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) SAN
2 5 (15.63%) NAS
2 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.50%) DNS
4 3 (9.38%) Firewall
5 2 (6.25%) DHCP
5 2 (6.25%) HTTP
5 2 (6.25%) HTTPS
5 2 (6.25%) SSH
5 2 (6.25%) VLAN
6 1 (3.13%) Broadband
6 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.13%) IPv4
6 1 (3.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) MariaDB
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 3 (9.38%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) Ant
4 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.13%) Maven
4 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Electronics
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) LDAP
2 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (9.38%) EMC VMAX
2 3 (9.38%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) NVMe
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (59.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (34.38%) Unix
4 6 (18.75%) Windows
5 4 (12.50%) CentOS
5 4 (12.50%) Rocky
5 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 3 (9.38%) SUSE
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 11 (34.38%) DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 10 (31.25%) Configuration Management
3 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.75%) Server Management
5 6 (18.75%) Task Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Observability
6 5 (15.63%) Storage Management
7 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Low Latency
8 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (9.38%) Security Hardening
8 3 (9.38%) Visualisation
9 2 (6.25%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 17 (53.13%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 2 (6.25%) Ruby
4 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) Groovy
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) CCIE
1 2 (6.25%) CCNP
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.25%) RHCE
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) RHCSA
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (28.13%) Docker
3 4 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (62.50%) Ansible
2 14 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (43.75%) Puppet
3 9 (28.13%) Terraform
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (9.38%) Packer
5 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
6 2 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (6.25%) Nagios
6 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.25%) SELinux
7 1 (3.13%) Cobbler
7 1 (3.13%) Graylog
7 1 (3.13%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (3.13%) Podman
7 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) VMware
2 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.50%) EMC
3 4 (12.50%) Veritas
4 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
4 3 (9.38%) NetApp
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle
4 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.38%) Splunk
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) HP
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft