Linux Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 147 181
Rank change year-on-year +18 +34 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 5 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.47% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.50% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £360 £387 £310
25th Percentile £413 £420 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% +9.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £525 £521 £538
90th Percentile £540 £595 £625
England median daily rate £525 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +11.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,513 3,228 4,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 94.58% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 2,271 3,526
10th Percentile £213 £220 £209
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 127 170
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.30 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.08
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.08
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.50 £34.55
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the Midlands

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
West Midlands +15 3 £450 -15.09%
East Midlands +22 2 £500 +18.34% 4
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Linux Engineer 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 Midlands region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) LTE
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) R
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) logstash
4 1 (20.00%) Kibana
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) iptables
4 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (20.00%) PowerBroker
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (20.00%) DataOps
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) RBAC
1 1 (20.00%) SIEM
1 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) logstash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerBroker
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat