Linux Specialist Contracts in London

Linux Specialist
England > London

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in London is £285, 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 350 378 492
Rank change year-on-year +28 +114 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 3 13 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.073% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.078% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £254 - -
25th Percentile £263 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% - -
75th Percentile £446 £275 -
90th Percentile £539 £283 -
England median daily rate £440 £250 £550
% change year-on-year +76.00% -54.55% -12.00%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in London

Linux Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Specialist in London

Linux Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Specialist in London

Linux Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Specialist in London

Linux Specialist
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 Specialist 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 -
Linux Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat

Linux Specialist 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Fidessa
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (33.33%) Bitcoin
2 1 (33.33%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Rocky
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Rundeck
1 1 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
2 1 (33.33%) CQG
2 1 (33.33%) ION Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Patsystems
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Reuters
2 1 (33.33%) Trayport