Linux Contracts in London

Linux
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 31 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 798 1,762 2,521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.51% 6.51% 6.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.86% 45.60% 46.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 1,305 1,868
10th Percentile £325 £450 £435
25th Percentile £450 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £611
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +2.25% +16.43%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £823 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 20
10th Percentile £41.50 £20.00 £27.86
25th Percentile £49.38 £50.94 £40.05
Median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +42.86% -11.02%
75th Percentile - - £70.31
90th Percentile - £83.38 £80.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
London

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,108 3,864 5,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.90% 14.27% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,838 3,882
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £325 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 63 107
10th Percentile £15.40 £16.69 £16.08
25th Percentile £18.93 £22.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.34 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.08% +52.41% -42.69%
75th Percentile £33.31 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.80 £74.70
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

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 27 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 April 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 -15 107 £575 -9.80% 37
West London +8 22 £488 -10.34% 13
East London -1 10 £458 -39.00% 6
North London +1 2 £250 -52.38% 1
South London -29 2 £600 +4.35% 12
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 49 (6.14%) OpenStack
2 36 (4.51%) Confluence
3 35 (4.39%) nginx
4 32 (4.01%) Apache
5 15 (1.88%) Tomcat
6 11 (1.38%) IIS
7 10 (1.25%) Apache Spark
7 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (1.13%) JBoss
8 9 (1.13%) SAS
9 6 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.75%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.50%) Luigi
11 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.38%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (1.50%) ION Anvil
2 9 (1.13%) Loan IQ
3 8 (1.00%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.75%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.63%) Endur
6 3 (0.38%) Global One
6 3 (0.38%) Shopify
7 2 (0.25%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.25%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 230 (28.82%) AWS
2 179 (22.43%) Azure
3 60 (7.52%) GitHub
4 52 (6.52%) GCP
5 49 (6.14%) PaaS
6 35 (4.39%) Serverless
7 29 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (3.63%) SaaS
8 26 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.01%) IaaS
11 23 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (2.51%) OpenShift
14 19 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.38%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (2.26%) Entra ID
16 17 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (2.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.90%) Firewall
2 52 (6.52%) DNS
3 38 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.13%) HTTP
4 25 (3.13%) VPN
5 23 (2.88%) SSL
6 21 (2.63%) SAN
7 20 (2.51%) DHCP
8 18 (2.26%) Network Security
9 17 (2.13%) NAS
9 17 (2.13%) SSH
10 16 (2.01%) FTP
11 13 (1.63%) Kerberos
11 13 (1.63%) LAN
11 13 (1.63%) Wireless
12 12 (1.50%) VLAN
13 10 (1.25%) WAN
13 10 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (1.13%) BGP
14 9 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.52%) SQL Server
2 44 (5.51%) MongoDB
3 40 (5.01%) Relational Database
4 36 (4.51%) MySQL
5 35 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (2.88%) Oracle Database
9 19 (2.38%) Big Data
9 19 (2.38%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.13%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.88%) Hadoop
11 15 (1.88%) KDB
12 10 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (1.25%) DB2
13 9 (1.13%) Sybase ASE
14 8 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.88%) Power BI
16 6 (0.75%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 110 (13.78%) Jenkins
2 89 (11.15%) Git
3 58 (7.27%) GitLab
4 50 (6.27%) JIRA
5 18 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 18 (2.26%) Mockito
6 16 (2.01%) TeamCity
7 14 (1.75%) Artifactory
7 14 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.50%) JMeter
9 10 (1.25%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.25%) JUnit
9 10 (1.25%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.13%) Maven
10 9 (1.13%) Selenium
11 8 (1.00%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.88%) Subversion
13 6 (0.75%) Gatling
13 6 (0.75%) Gradle
General
1 208 (26.07%) Finance
2 151 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 96 (12.03%) Banking
4 80 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 49 (6.14%) Investment Banking
7 32 (4.01%) Telecoms
8 28 (3.51%) Front Office
9 20 (2.51%) Marketing
10 19 (2.38%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.88%) Electronics
12 13 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.88%) Back Office
15 7 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.63%) Retail
17 4 (0.50%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 133 (16.67%) Developer
2 89 (11.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (9.52%) Senior
4 65 (8.15%) Architect
5 48 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
6 47 (5.89%) Java Developer
7 44 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
7 44 (5.51%) Lead
8 43 (5.39%) Analyst
9 38 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 35 (4.39%) Support Engineer
11 33 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (4.01%) Applications Support
13 29 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 28 (3.51%) Consultant
15 27 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (3.13%) Administrator
16 25 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
17 24 (3.01%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (8.40%) Kafka
2 47 (5.89%) FIX Protocol
3 42 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 41 (5.14%) HTML
5 35 (4.39%) LDAP
6 33 (4.14%) CSS
7 29 (3.63%) Spring
8 26 (3.26%) JSON
9 25 (3.13%) React
9 25 (3.13%) REST
10 21 (2.63%) Node.js
11 20 (2.51%) Web Services
12 19 (2.38%) Laravel
13 18 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (2.26%) Sass
13 18 (2.26%) XML
14 17 (2.13%) WebSockets
15 16 (2.01%) .NET
15 16 (2.01%) RESTful
16 14 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.52%) Data Centre
2 44 (5.51%) Linux Command Line
3 38 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (4.64%) Replication
5 30 (3.76%) Derivative
6 29 (3.63%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (3.13%) Fixed Income
7 25 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 23 (2.88%) Algorithms
8 23 (2.88%) Data Structures
9 22 (2.76%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 18 (2.26%) Clustering
12 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.75%) Cloud Native
14 12 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.50%) PKI
15 11 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 248 (31.08%) Windows
2 201 (25.19%) Unix
3 89 (11.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 64 (8.02%) Windows Server
5 44 (5.51%) CentOS
6 19 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.01%) Mac OS X
7 16 (2.01%) VMS
8 15 (1.88%) Oracle Linux
8 15 (1.88%) Solaris
9 9 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.88%) Android
12 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.50%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.38%) AIX
14 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (25.81%) DevOps
2 201 (25.19%) CI/CD
3 173 (21.68%) Agile
4 116 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 84 (10.53%) Microservices
7 79 (9.90%) Migration
8 78 (9.77%) Test Automation
9 75 (9.40%) Containerisation
10 70 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 65 (8.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 62 (7.77%) TDD
13 58 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
14 57 (7.14%) Software Engineering
15 55 (6.89%) ITIL
16 53 (6.64%) Continuous Integration
16 53 (6.64%) High Availability
17 51 (6.39%) Scrum
18 50 (6.27%) Incident Management
19 47 (5.89%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 282 (35.34%) Python
2 153 (19.17%) Java
3 150 (18.80%) SQL
4 93 (11.65%) Bash
5 89 (11.15%) PowerShell
6 73 (9.15%) Shell Script
7 68 (8.52%) JavaScript
8 61 (7.64%) C#
9 45 (5.64%) Perl
10 44 (5.51%) C++
11 43 (5.39%) Go
12 27 (3.38%) PHP
13 24 (3.01%) C
14 20 (2.51%) T-SQL
15 13 (1.63%) Scala
16 9 (1.13%) Groovy
16 9 (1.13%) Korn
17 6 (0.75%) Ruby
18 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
19 4 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 178 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 127 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.28%) DV Cleared
4 53 (6.64%) Degree
5 31 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.13%) GIAC
8 9 (1.13%) OSCP
9 8 (1.00%) CCNP
9 8 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.75%) CHECK Team Leader
10 6 (0.75%) CISSP
10 6 (0.75%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.51%) QA
2 18 (2.26%) SLA
3 16 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.63%) NIST
5 12 (1.50%) GDPR
6 8 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.75%) NCSC
8 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.50%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
9 2 (0.25%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) JTAG
System Software
1 142 (17.79%) Docker
2 63 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 61 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (6.64%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.26%) KVM
6 17 (2.13%) NFS
7 16 (2.01%) Hyper-V
8 14 (1.75%) Firmware
9 12 (1.50%) HDFS
10 11 (1.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 7 (0.88%) vSphere
12 5 (0.63%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.50%) Samba
13 4 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 3 (0.38%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.25%) Ceph
15 2 (0.25%) iptables
15 2 (0.25%) Lustre
15 2 (0.25%) PowerDNS
15 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 162 (20.30%) Ansible
2 156 (19.55%) Kubernetes
3 147 (18.42%) Terraform
4 73 (9.15%) Grafana
5 68 (8.52%) Puppet
6 60 (7.52%) Prometheus
7 29 (3.63%) Progress Chef
8 24 (3.01%) Kibana
9 23 (2.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (2.63%) logstash
11 14 (1.75%) Consul
12 11 (1.38%) Netcool
12 11 (1.38%) Packer
13 10 (1.25%) Nagios
14 9 (1.13%) Argo
14 9 (1.13%) SCCM
14 9 (1.13%) Tivoli
15 8 (1.00%) Data Guard
15 8 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 119 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 92 (11.53%) VMware
3 83 (10.40%) Red Hat
4 80 (10.03%) Oracle
5 42 (5.26%) IBM
6 37 (4.64%) Dell
7 35 (4.39%) Cisco
8 34 (4.26%) Splunk
9 28 (3.51%) SAP
10 23 (2.88%) Qualys
11 22 (2.76%) Google
12 21 (2.63%) HP
13 20 (2.51%) Isilon
13 20 (2.51%) ServiceNow
14 17 (2.13%) ION Trading
14 17 (2.13%) Sybase
15 16 (2.01%) Amdocs
16 15 (1.88%) F5
17 14 (1.75%) CyberArk
18 13 (1.63%) SaltStack