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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 27 18
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing Linux 69 3 30
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.98% 1.80% 7.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 81.18% 12.00% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 3 25
10th Percentile £456 £413 £425
25th Percentile £503 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £421 £511
Median % change year-on-year +33.17% -17.71% -0.29%
75th Percentile £610 £432 £550
90th Percentile £643 £435 £611
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £421 £511
% change year-on-year +30.80% -17.71% +0.20%

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 85 25 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.07% 14.97% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 18 44
10th Percentile £397 £206 £216
25th Percentile £494 £325 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £610 £426 £541
90th Percentile £642 £498 £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +34.10% -11.11% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £21.38
Median hourly rate - £15.12 £26.29
Median % change year-on-year - -42.49% -
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 31 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 (2.90%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.58%) AWS
2 27 (39.13%) Azure
3 6 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (8.70%) GitHub
3 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.90%) GCP
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.45%) IaaS
7 1 (1.45%) PaaS
7 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.84%) DNS
2 12 (17.39%) TCP/IP
3 10 (14.49%) VSAN
4 9 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (13.04%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (10.14%) Firewall
6 6 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (7.25%) IPsec
7 5 (7.25%) VPN
7 5 (7.25%) WAN
8 4 (5.80%) DHCP
8 4 (5.80%) LAN
8 4 (5.80%) Network Security
8 4 (5.80%) SSL
9 3 (4.35%) CATAPAN
9 3 (4.35%) SAN
10 1 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (1.45%) MPLS
10 1 (1.45%) NGFW
10 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Jaeger
2 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) JUnit
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) Maven
3 1 (1.45%) Mockito
3 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.45%) Storybook
General
1 5 (7.25%) Finance
1 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
1 5 (7.25%) Retail
2 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (34.78%) Senior
3 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (17.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) Analyst
5 11 (15.94%) Citrix Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Network Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) SOC Analyst
6 9 (13.04%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 7 (10.14%) Architect
9 5 (7.25%) NOC Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Technical Architect
10 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Senior Citrix Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (5.80%) .NET
2 4 (5.80%) 802.1X
2 4 (5.80%) Loki
3 2 (2.90%) Spring
3 2 (2.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.45%) CSS
4 1 (1.45%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.45%) HTML
4 1 (1.45%) JPA
4 1 (1.45%) React
4 1 (1.45%) REST
4 1 (1.45%) SOAP
4 1 (1.45%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Vitest
4 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) PKI
2 11 (15.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (14.49%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (11.59%) Cyberattack
5 7 (10.14%) Public Cloud
6 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
7 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
7 4 (5.80%) Security Posture
8 3 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.45%) CMDB
10 1 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (1.45%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (40.58%) Windows
2 9 (13.04%) Debian
3 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.45%) VMS
5 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (26.09%) SIEM
3 16 (23.19%) Incident Response
4 14 (20.29%) ITIL
5 13 (18.84%) CI/CD
5 13 (18.84%) Security Operations
6 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
6 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (13.04%) DevOps
7 9 (13.04%) Network Monitoring
8 8 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (8.70%) Load Balancing
9 6 (8.70%) Migration
9 6 (8.70%) Observability
9 6 (8.70%) Problem Management
9 6 (8.70%) Virtual Environments
10 5 (7.25%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) Python
2 5 (7.25%) Bash
2 5 (7.25%) Go
2 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.90%) Java
3 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (72.46%) Security Cleared
2 38 (55.07%) SC Cleared
3 33 (47.83%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 7 (10.14%) RHCE
4 7 (10.14%) RHCSA
5 6 (8.70%) CCNP
5 6 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.70%) LFCS
6 5 (7.25%) CCSE
6 5 (7.25%) CCSM
6 5 (7.25%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (7.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.80%) LPIC
8 1 (1.45%) CCDA
8 1 (1.45%) CCDP
8 1 (1.45%) CCIP
8 1 (1.45%) CCNA
8 1 (1.45%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) NIST
2 6 (8.70%) NCSC
3 5 (7.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (7.25%) GDPR
3 5 (7.25%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.25%) SLA
4 4 (5.80%) GRC
5 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.45%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 18 (26.09%) VMware NSX
2 16 (23.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.25%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.90%) Docker
5 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Grafana
1 6 (8.70%) Prometheus
1 6 (8.70%) Terraform
2 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.80%) Istio
3 4 (5.80%) Rancher
4 2 (2.90%) Ansible
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.45%) CASB
5 1 (1.45%) Packer
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (52.17%) VMware
2 17 (24.64%) Citrix
3 14 (20.29%) Cisco
3 14 (20.29%) Palo Alto
4 10 (14.49%) Red Hat
5 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 9 (13.04%) Splunk
6 6 (8.70%) CheckPoint
6 6 (8.70%) Fortinet
6 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
7 5 (7.25%) SolarWinds
8 3 (4.35%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.45%) Arista
9 1 (1.45%) Aruba
9 1 (1.45%) HP
9 1 (1.45%) Juniper
9 1 (1.45%) Meraki
9 1 (1.45%) Zscaler