Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £470, 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 348 381 490
Rank change year-on-year +33 +109 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 5 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.056% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.060% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £260 £407 £338
25th Percentile £278 £421 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +17.65% -16.87%
75th Percentile £523 £563 £469
90th Percentile £554 - £473
England median daily rate £470 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -10.48% +3.96% +12.22%

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 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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in London

Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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
North London - 2 £270 -
South London - 1 £470 -
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Server Management
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) SELinux
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (40.00%) SAP
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) LDAP
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) Electronics
4 2 (40.00%) Telecoms

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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Server Management
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) SELinux
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat