Linux Contracts in London

Linux
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 29 36
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 755 1,606 2,578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.57% 6.55% 6.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.36% 43.71% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 1,124 1,863
10th Percentile £350 £438 £450
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £601
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.08% +9.18%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £810 £788
England median daily rate £550 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.29% +10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 16
10th Percentile £62.88 £21.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £63.44 £51.25 £27.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +64.84% -9.00%
75th Percentile £67.19 £86.56 £62.63
90th Percentile £68.13 £90.00 £72.38
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% +10.00%

All Operating Systems
London

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,021 3,674 5,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.24% 14.99% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 2,675 4,024
10th Percentile £213 £210 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 58 86
10th Percentile £16.24 £18.93 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.75 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +103.89% -1.81%
75th Percentile £29.38 £63.38 £41.13
90th Percentile £61.14 £83.23 £62.75
England median hourly rate £27.00 £42.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% +88.89% +32.35%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in London

Linux
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -11 102 £625 +0.81% 30
West London +18 17 £500 -10.11% 10
East London -8 8 £535 -15.08% 7
South London -18 8 £491 -10.68% 5
North London +4 2 £250 -54.55% 1
Linux
England

Linux
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 34 (4.50%) nginx
2 32 (4.24%) Apache
2 32 (4.24%) Confluence
3 22 (2.91%) Tomcat
4 21 (2.78%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.46%) JBoss
7 10 (1.32%) Apache Spark
8 9 (1.19%) WebSphere
9 8 (1.06%) IIS
10 7 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.93%) SAS
11 6 (0.79%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 6 (0.79%) SharePoint
11 6 (0.79%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.53%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.40%) MS Project Server
13 3 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 3 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Aladdin
1 8 (1.06%) SimCorp Dimension
2 6 (0.79%) Global One
2 6 (0.79%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.53%) Shopify
4 2 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
4 2 (0.26%) Endur
4 2 (0.26%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.26%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.26%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.26%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.13%) HiPortfolio
5 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 224 (29.67%) AWS
2 166 (21.99%) Azure
3 61 (8.08%) GCP
4 42 (5.56%) GitHub
5 29 (3.84%) PaaS
6 28 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (3.31%) Azure AKS
8 24 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (2.78%) Serverless
10 20 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.38%) Entra ID
11 18 (2.38%) OpenShift
12 17 (2.25%) SaaS
13 16 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.46%) Slack
16 10 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.34%) Firewall
2 41 (5.43%) DNS
3 28 (3.71%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.58%) SSH
5 25 (3.31%) SSL
6 20 (2.65%) HTTP
7 18 (2.38%) Internet
8 15 (1.99%) WAN
9 14 (1.85%) FTP
10 13 (1.72%) DHCP
10 13 (1.72%) Kerberos
10 13 (1.72%) VPN
11 12 (1.59%) LAN
11 12 (1.59%) Network Security
12 11 (1.46%) SAN
13 9 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (1.06%) SMTP
15 7 (0.93%) NAS
15 7 (0.93%) Telnet
15 7 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 60 (7.95%) Relational Database
3 54 (7.15%) MySQL
4 47 (6.23%) MongoDB
5 36 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (3.84%) NoSQL
6 29 (3.84%) RDBMS
7 21 (2.78%) KDB
8 18 (2.38%) DB2
9 17 (2.25%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.85%) Big Data
11 14 (1.85%) Hadoop
12 11 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.46%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (1.06%) Redis
15 6 (0.79%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.66%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 104 (13.77%) Jenkins
2 99 (13.11%) Git
3 53 (7.02%) GitLab
4 51 (6.75%) JIRA
5 18 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 18 (2.38%) Mockito
6 15 (1.99%) Artifactory
7 13 (1.72%) Maven
7 13 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (1.59%) JUnit
8 12 (1.59%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.93%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.79%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.66%) Ant
12 5 (0.66%) Gatling
12 5 (0.66%) JMeter
12 5 (0.66%) Subversion
13 4 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 192 (25.43%) Finance
2 163 (21.59%) Social Skills
3 91 (12.05%) Banking
4 74 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.03%) Investment Banking
7 36 (4.77%) Front Office
8 17 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.85%) Retail
10 13 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.72%) Marketing
11 12 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.19%) Electronics
12 9 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.93%) Back Office
14 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.79%) Military
15 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (18.28%) Developer
2 82 (10.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (9.93%) Senior
4 58 (7.68%) Architect
5 56 (7.42%) Java Developer
6 47 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (5.83%) Analyst
7 44 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
8 40 (5.30%) Applications Support
9 36 (4.77%) Support Engineer
10 34 (4.50%) Administrator
10 34 (4.50%) Linux Engineer
11 33 (4.37%) Senior Developer
12 32 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
12 32 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 30 (3.97%) Consultant
14 28 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (3.58%) Lead
16 26 (3.44%) Applications Engineer
17 25 (3.31%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.01%) Kafka
2 43 (5.70%) REST
3 38 (5.03%) HTML
4 36 (4.77%) Spring
5 35 (4.64%) LDAP
6 32 (4.24%) Web Services
7 31 (4.11%) Middleware
8 29 (3.84%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (3.84%) FIX Protocol
9 27 (3.58%) CSS
10 24 (3.18%) JSON
11 22 (2.91%) .NET
12 20 (2.65%) XML
13 19 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (2.25%) JPA
14 17 (2.25%) RESTful
15 16 (2.12%) Node.js
15 16 (2.12%) SOAP
16 15 (1.99%) J2EE
17 14 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
2 40 (5.30%) Data Centre
2 40 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.84%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.44%) Replication
7 24 (3.18%) Algorithms
8 23 (3.05%) Data Structures
8 23 (3.05%) Derivative
9 19 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.52%) Hedge funds
10 17 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.25%) Fixed Income
10 17 (2.25%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.85%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.85%) Clustering
12 14 (1.85%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.19%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 270 (35.76%) Windows
2 214 (28.34%) Unix
3 92 (12.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (6.49%) Windows Server
5 33 (4.37%) CentOS
6 17 (2.25%) Mac OS X
7 14 (1.85%) Android
8 13 (1.72%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.59%) Solaris
9 12 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (1.32%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.93%) AIX
12 7 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.93%) VMS
12 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.79%) zOS
14 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.53%) Debian
16 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (27.68%) DevOps
2 174 (23.05%) CI/CD
3 156 (20.66%) Agile
4 103 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (10.20%) Migration
6 76 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (10.07%) Microservices
7 71 (9.40%) Containerisation
8 70 (9.27%) Test Automation
9 66 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 57 (7.55%) TDD
11 54 (7.15%) Computer Science
12 53 (7.02%) Continuous Integration
13 52 (6.89%) Disaster Recovery
14 50 (6.62%) Analytics
15 49 (6.49%) Software Engineering
16 48 (6.36%) Configuration Management
17 47 (6.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 40 (5.30%) SDLC
19 39 (5.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 263 (34.83%) Python
2 163 (21.59%) Java
3 153 (20.26%) SQL
4 107 (14.17%) PowerShell
5 81 (10.73%) Shell Script
6 73 (9.67%) Bash
7 51 (6.75%) JavaScript
8 47 (6.23%) Perl
9 41 (5.43%) C++
10 33 (4.37%) C#
11 31 (4.11%) Go
12 25 (3.31%) PHP
13 17 (2.25%) T-SQL
14 15 (1.99%) C
14 15 (1.99%) Scala
15 13 (1.72%) Groovy
15 13 (1.72%) Ruby
16 12 (1.59%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.93%) Korn
17 7 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 168 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 141 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 65 (8.61%) Degree
4 48 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.84%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.79%) CCNA
8 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.66%) CISSP
9 5 (0.66%) GCIH
9 5 (0.66%) GIAC
9 5 (0.66%) MCSE
9 5 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.53%) CCNP
10 4 (0.53%) CISM
10 4 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.71%) QA
2 15 (1.99%) SLA
3 11 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.46%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.19%) GDPR
5 8 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.06%) NIST
6 4 (0.53%) ISO 15022
6 4 (0.53%) NCSC
7 2 (0.26%) COBIT
7 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 127 (16.82%) Docker
2 76 (10.07%) Active Directory
3 54 (7.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.84%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.12%) NFS
5 16 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.99%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.59%) HDFS
7 12 (1.59%) KVM
8 10 (1.32%) Firmware
9 9 (1.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 5 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.53%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 4 (0.53%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.40%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.40%) vSphere
13 2 (0.26%) iptables
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.26%) Samba
13 2 (0.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 167 (22.12%) Kubernetes
2 154 (20.40%) Ansible
3 152 (20.13%) Terraform
4 62 (8.21%) Puppet
5 60 (7.95%) Grafana
6 52 (6.89%) Prometheus
7 25 (3.31%) Progress Chef
8 23 (3.05%) Packer
9 19 (2.52%) Consul
10 14 (1.85%) logstash
11 12 (1.59%) Kibana
12 11 (1.46%) SCCM
13 9 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
13 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
14 8 (1.06%) Control-M
14 8 (1.06%) Nagios
15 7 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.79%) Argo
16 6 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
16 6 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 128 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 104 (13.77%) Oracle
3 83 (10.99%) VMware
4 66 (8.74%) Red Hat
5 36 (4.77%) Cisco
6 31 (4.11%) IBM
7 29 (3.84%) Google
8 28 (3.71%) Splunk
9 24 (3.18%) CyberArk
10 23 (3.05%) Dell
10 23 (3.05%) SAP
11 20 (2.65%) F5
11 20 (2.65%) ServiceNow
12 19 (2.52%) Sybase
13 15 (1.99%) Qualys
14 14 (1.85%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.85%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.85%) Isilon
14 14 (1.85%) TIBCO
15 12 (1.59%) SaltStack