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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 31 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing Linux 57 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.92% 2.93% 7.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.51% 17.07% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 5 19
10th Percentile £458 - £406
25th Percentile £503 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £529 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -2.13% +13.68%
75th Percentile £610 £543 £608
90th Percentile £628 £553 £785
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £563 £529 £478
% change year-on-year +6.43% +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 41 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.39% 17.15% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 23 69
10th Percentile £383 £181 £237
25th Percentile £500 £278 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £325 £415
Median % change year-on-year +65.05% -21.69% -12.63%
75th Percentile £610 £506 £484
90th Percentile £631 £542 £565
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £350 £413
% change year-on-year +53.26% -15.15% -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 6 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 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) Azure
2 17 (29.82%) AWS
3 13 (22.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 12 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (12.28%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.75%) IaaS
8 1 (1.75%) OCI
8 1 (1.75%) PaaS
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (26.32%) DNS
2 14 (24.56%) Firewall
3 12 (21.05%) DHCP
3 12 (21.05%) VPN
4 10 (17.54%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (17.54%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (15.79%) Network Security
6 8 (14.04%) VSAN
7 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
8 6 (10.53%) SSH
9 5 (8.77%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (8.77%) IPsec
9 5 (8.77%) LAN
9 5 (8.77%) SSL
9 5 (8.77%) WAN
10 3 (5.26%) CATAPAN
11 2 (3.51%) NGFW
12 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) GitLab
1 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (10.53%) Finance
2 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
2 5 (8.77%) Retail
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Military
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Senior
2 23 (40.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (38.60%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (28.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (19.30%) Citrix Engineer
5 11 (19.30%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (17.54%) Network Engineer
7 9 (15.79%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (15.79%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Architect
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) Terraform
2 10 (17.54%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.26%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.75%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) Loki
4 1 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (24.56%) PKI
3 9 (15.79%) Onboarding
4 7 (12.28%) ARM Cortex
5 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
6 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
7 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.51%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.75%) CMDB
9 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.75%) Replication
9 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (49.12%) Windows
2 12 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.53%) Debian
4 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (29.82%) ITIL
3 11 (19.30%) Analytics
3 11 (19.30%) Log Analytics
4 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
4 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 10 (17.54%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (14.04%) DevOps
6 8 (14.04%) Network Virtualisation
6 8 (14.04%) Observability
6 8 (14.04%) Security Hardening
6 8 (14.04%) Security Operations
6 8 (14.04%) SIEM
7 7 (12.28%) RBAC
7 7 (12.28%) Service Management
7 7 (12.28%) Validation
8 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
2 11 (19.30%) Bash
3 10 (17.54%) Bicep
4 1 (1.75%) Go
4 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.75%) Python
4 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 32 (56.14%) DV Cleared
3 27 (47.37%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.53%) Degree
5 5 (8.77%) CCNP
5 5 (8.77%) CCSE
5 5 (8.77%) CCSM
5 5 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.77%) RHCE
5 5 (8.77%) RHCSA
6 4 (7.02%) LFCS
7 3 (5.26%) LPIC
8 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.75%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) NIST
2 5 (8.77%) SLA
3 3 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.26%) NCSC
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) GRC
4 1 (1.75%) OpenSCAP
4 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (29.82%) VMware NSX
2 16 (28.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (26.32%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.77%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (12.28%) SCCM
2 5 (8.77%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (3.51%) SCOM
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Istio
4 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.75%) Packer
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Rancher
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 32 (56.14%) VMware
2 17 (29.82%) Citrix
3 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
4 12 (21.05%) Cisco
4 12 (21.05%) Palo Alto
5 8 (14.04%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
7 5 (8.77%) CheckPoint
7 5 (8.77%) Fortinet
7 5 (8.77%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
8 4 (7.02%) Becrypt
9 2 (3.51%) Oracle
10 1 (1.75%) Splunk
10 1 (1.75%) Tenable