Linux Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Linux Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 81 93
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.34% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.53% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £290 - £347
25th Percentile £313 £385 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £405 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +1.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £438 £444 £438
90th Percentile £460 £478 £450
North West median daily rate £375 £405 £495
% change year-on-year -7.41% -18.18% +41.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,327 941 1,486
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 93.91% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 643 1,060
10th Percentile £313 £301 £300
25th Percentile £400 £392 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -3.16% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 37 90
10th Percentile £18.57 £13.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £22.68 £16.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £52.94 £32.50 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +62.88% +26.98% -36.01%
75th Percentile £66.25 £37.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £62.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £42.84 £31.51 £25.60
% change year-on-year +35.96% +23.09% -13.66%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Manchester

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 11 March 2026, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) VMware