Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £445 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 486 601
Rank change year-on-year +100 +115 -148
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.011% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.012% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £335 £504
25th Percentile £407 £350 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £511
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% -21.76% +2.25%
75th Percentile £506 £450 £520
90th Percentile £540 £465 £521
England median daily rate £505 £512 £450
% change year-on-year -1.42% +13.83% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Ansible
3 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
3 5 (62.50%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (50.00%) Puppet
4 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (50.00%) Docker
4 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) IaaS
4 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (37.50%) Cloudflare
5 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
5 3 (37.50%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
5 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (37.50%) F5
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) SMTP
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) Apache
5 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
5 3 (37.50%) PHP
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
6 2 (25.00%) Automated Trading
7 1 (12.50%) Windows Server

Linux Infrastructure 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 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Cloudflare
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Automated Trading
5 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Korn
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Puppet
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Sun
4 1 (12.50%) TOWER Software