Linux Support Contracts in London

Linux Support
England > London

The median Linux Support daily rate in London is £366, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 394 448
Rank change year-on-year +46 +54 +140
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 2 3 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.017% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.018% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 18
10th Percentile £358 £279 £473
25th Percentile £360 £303 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £363 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -46.30% +40.63%
75th Percentile £370 £428 £713
90th Percentile £370 £456 -
England median daily rate £370 £363 £675
% change year-on-year +2.07% -46.30% +66.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -61.90%

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 11,711 16,574 23,778
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.72% 94.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,938 11,895 17,354
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 324 274
10th Percentile £19.25 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.17 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -23.33% +3.63%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.49 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.75 £66.85 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.31% -10.11% +80.18%

Linux Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support in London

Linux Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support in London

Linux Support Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Linux Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP

Linux Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PHP