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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 31 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 58 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.31% 2.90% 7.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.73% 16.67% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 5 18
10th Percentile £466 - £406
25th Percentile £503 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £529 £510
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.63% +7.37%
75th Percentile £610 £543 £610
90th Percentile £629 £553 £790
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £566 £529 £478
% change year-on-year +7.14% +10.68% +0.53%

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 82 42 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.75% 17.43% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 24 68
10th Percentile £374 £182 £246
25th Percentile £500 £245 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £325 £415
Median % change year-on-year +68.68% -21.69% -12.63%
75th Percentile £610 £491 £481
90th Percentile £632 £541 £555
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £325 £413
% change year-on-year +65.05% -21.21% -12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £15.75 - £21.13
25th Percentile £21.55 - £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.12 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.08% -55.53% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - £37.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £30.00
% change year-on-year +172.68% -52.67% +44.58%

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 13 September 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) AWS
3 12 (20.69%) Azure Monitor
3 12 (20.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (12.07%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.72%) IaaS
7 1 (1.72%) OCI
7 1 (1.72%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.86%) DNS
2 14 (24.14%) Firewall
3 12 (20.69%) DHCP
3 12 (20.69%) VPN
4 9 (15.52%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (15.52%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (15.52%) Network Security
5 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
5 7 (12.07%) VSAN
6 6 (10.34%) SSH
7 5 (8.62%) IPsec
7 5 (8.62%) LAN
7 5 (8.62%) SSL
7 5 (8.62%) WAN
8 4 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (5.17%) CATAPAN
10 2 (3.45%) NGFW
11 1 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) GitLab
1 1 (1.72%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (8.62%) Finance
2 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
2 4 (6.90%) Retail
3 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Senior
2 24 (41.38%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (39.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (27.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (18.97%) Citrix Engineer
5 11 (18.97%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Network Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) NOC Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.17%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) Loki
4 1 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (24.14%) PKI
3 9 (15.52%) Onboarding
4 7 (12.07%) ARM Cortex
5 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
6 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
7 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.72%) CMDB
9 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.72%) Replication
9 1 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (46.55%) Windows
2 12 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.34%) Debian
4 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (27.59%) ITIL
3 11 (18.97%) Analytics
3 11 (18.97%) Log Analytics
4 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 9 (15.52%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (13.79%) DevOps
6 8 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
6 8 (13.79%) Observability
6 8 (13.79%) Security Hardening
6 8 (13.79%) Security Operations
7 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.07%) RBAC
7 7 (12.07%) Service Management
7 7 (12.07%) SIEM
7 7 (12.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) PowerShell
2 11 (18.97%) Bash
3 10 (17.24%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) Go
4 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.72%) Python
4 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (81.03%) Security Cleared
2 32 (55.17%) DV Cleared
3 27 (46.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 6 (10.34%) RHCE
4 6 (10.34%) RHCSA
5 5 (8.62%) LFCS
6 4 (6.90%) CCNP
6 4 (6.90%) CCSE
6 4 (6.90%) CCSM
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.17%) LPIC
8 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.72%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) NIST
2 4 (6.90%) SLA
3 3 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.17%) NCSC
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) OpenSCAP
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) VMware NSX
2 15 (25.86%) Active Directory
2 15 (25.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (12.07%) SCCM
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (3.45%) SCOM
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Istio
4 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.72%) Packer
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.72%) Rancher
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (53.45%) VMware
2 17 (29.31%) Citrix
3 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
4 11 (18.97%) Cisco
4 11 (18.97%) Palo Alto
5 8 (13.79%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (12.07%) ServiceNow
7 6 (10.34%) Red Hat
8 5 (8.62%) SolarWinds
9 4 (6.90%) Becrypt
9 4 (6.90%) CheckPoint
9 4 (6.90%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.45%) Oracle
11 1 (1.72%) Splunk
11 1 (1.72%) Tenable