Linux Contracts in Merseyside

Linux
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 13 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.74% - 3.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.89% - 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 10
10th Percentile £208 - £325
25th Percentile £366 - £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £458
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.50%
75th Percentile £638 - £538
90th Percentile £675 - £551
North West median daily rate £510 £450 £530
% change year-on-year +13.31% -15.09% -7.83%

All Operating Systems
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 41 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.79% 17.98% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 45
10th Percentile £133 £143 £168
25th Percentile £143 £164 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -47.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £413 £288 £575
90th Percentile £630 £375 £675
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile - - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £19.13
90th Percentile - £18.80 £21.50
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Merseyside

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Merseyside

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Merseyside

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Merseyside

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 10 £613 - 9
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) Internet
1 3 (23.08%) iSCSI
1 3 (23.08%) LAN
1 3 (23.08%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (23.08%) WAN
1 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (23.08%) Wireless
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Siebel Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Support
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) E-Business Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) JMS
1 5 (38.46%) SOAP
1 5 (38.46%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) IVR
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
2 3 (23.08%) Android
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (15.38%) Solaris
3 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (38.46%) EAI
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) SDLC
3 4 (30.77%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (30.77%) Workflow
4 3 (23.08%) BCP
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
4 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Information Security
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PL/SQL
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Siebel
3 3 (23.08%) Apple
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
5 1 (7.69%) Red Hat