Linux Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Linux
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 27 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing Linux 58 3 28
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.74% 1.86% 7.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 79.45% 14.29% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 3 23
10th Percentile £456 £413 £425
25th Percentile £503 £414 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £421 £535
Median % change year-on-year +31.99% -21.40% +4.39%
75th Percentile £625 £432 £555
90th Percentile £644 £435 £618
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £421 £511
% change year-on-year +30.80% -17.71% -0.29%

All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 73 21 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.75% 13.04% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 17 43
10th Percentile £392 £204 £205
25th Percentile £468 £325 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +44.85% -16.67% -6.98%
75th Percentile £610 £426 £544
90th Percentile £643 £505 £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £410 £438
% change year-on-year +30.75% -6.23% -9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £21.38
Median hourly rate - - £23.17
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.58
% change year-on-year - -37.11% +18.84%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Linux job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Milton Keynes

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) AWS
2 24 (41.38%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) GitHub
3 6 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.62%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.72%) IaaS
7 1 (1.72%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) TCP/IP
2 10 (17.24%) DNS
3 9 (15.52%) VSAN
4 5 (8.62%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (8.62%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (8.62%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (6.90%) Firewall
6 3 (5.17%) SAN
7 2 (3.45%) IPsec
7 2 (3.45%) VPN
7 2 (3.45%) WAN
8 1 (1.72%) DHCP
8 1 (1.72%) IPv6
8 1 (1.72%) LAN
8 1 (1.72%) MPLS
8 1 (1.72%) OSPF
8 1 (1.72%) SNMP
8 1 (1.72%) SSL
8 1 (1.72%) VoIP
8 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) JUnit
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Maven
3 1 (1.72%) Mockito
3 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.72%) Storybook
General
1 4 (6.90%) Finance
1 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
1 4 (6.90%) Retail
2 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (29.31%) Senior
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Analyst
5 9 (15.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) SOC Analyst
6 8 (13.79%) Citrix Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Architect
7 7 (12.07%) VMware Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.34%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Network Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Technical Architect
10 4 (6.90%) Lead
10 4 (6.90%) NOC Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (5.17%) Senior Citrix Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (6.90%) .NET
2 4 (6.90%) Loki
3 2 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.45%) Spring
3 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.72%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) JPA
4 1 (1.72%) React
4 1 (1.72%) REST
4 1 (1.72%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Vitest
4 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (17.24%) PKI
2 10 (17.24%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (13.79%) Cyberattack
4 7 (12.07%) Public Cloud
5 5 (8.62%) Data Centre
6 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (6.90%) Security Posture
7 3 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.72%) CMDB
9 1 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (41.38%) Windows
2 8 (13.79%) Debian
3 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) SIEM
2 16 (27.59%) Incident Response
3 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
3 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (18.97%) Security Operations
5 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (17.24%) ITIL
6 9 (15.52%) DevOps
7 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.34%) Observability
8 6 (10.34%) Problem Management
9 5 (8.62%) Agile
9 5 (8.62%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.62%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (8.62%) Load Balancing
9 5 (8.62%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (8.62%) Migration
9 5 (8.62%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Python
2 5 (8.62%) Bash
2 5 (8.62%) Go
2 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.45%) Java
3 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 34 (58.62%) SC Cleared
3 28 (48.28%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.07%) Degree
5 5 (8.62%) CCNP
5 5 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.62%) CompTIA CySA+
5 5 (8.62%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.62%) RHCE
5 5 (8.62%) RHCSA
6 4 (6.90%) CCSE
6 4 (6.90%) CCSM
6 4 (6.90%) LFCS
7 3 (5.17%) LPIC
8 1 (1.72%) CCDA
8 1 (1.72%) CCDP
8 1 (1.72%) CCIP
8 1 (1.72%) CCNA
8 1 (1.72%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) NCSC
1 6 (10.34%) NIST
2 5 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (8.62%) GDPR
2 5 (8.62%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.90%) GRC
3 4 (6.90%) SLA
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) VMware NSX
2 12 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.45%) Docker
5 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Grafana
1 6 (10.34%) Prometheus
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Istio
3 4 (6.90%) Rancher
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) CASB
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.72%) Packer
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (46.55%) VMware
2 12 (20.69%) Citrix
3 10 (17.24%) Cisco
3 10 (17.24%) Palo Alto
4 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
4 9 (15.52%) Splunk
5 8 (13.79%) Red Hat
6 5 (8.62%) CheckPoint
6 5 (8.62%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.72%) Arista
9 1 (1.72%) Aruba
9 1 (1.72%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.72%) HP
9 1 (1.72%) Juniper
9 1 (1.72%) Meraki
9 1 (1.72%) Zscaler