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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 32 21
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 66 6 25
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.46% 2.65% 7.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.16% 15.79% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 5 21
10th Percentile £456 - £406
25th Percentile £503 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £529 £511
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% +3.42% -0.29%
75th Percentile £610 £543 £590
90th Percentile £643 £553 £775
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £548 £529 £478
% change year-on-year +3.73% +10.68% -5.68%

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 89 38 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.41% 16.81% 23.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 23 61
10th Percentile £336 £195 £250
25th Percentile £468 £325 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £375 £420
Median % change year-on-year +43.04% -10.71% -11.58%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £517
90th Percentile £639 £558 £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £375 £414
% change year-on-year +43.04% -9.37% -12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £23.98 - £16.89
25th Percentile £33.70 - £20.29
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.12 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.08% -49.60% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.37
90th Percentile - - £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £22.58
% change year-on-year +172.68% -37.11% +8.82%

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 2 August 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 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (51.52%) Azure
2 25 (37.88%) AWS
3 13 (19.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (10.61%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.58%) GitHub
6 5 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (3.03%) IaaS
9 2 (3.03%) PaaS
9 2 (3.03%) SaaS
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.52%) GCP
10 1 (1.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.21%) DNS
1 14 (21.21%) Firewall
2 12 (18.18%) VPN
3 11 (16.67%) DHCP
4 10 (15.15%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (15.15%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (15.15%) VSAN
5 8 (12.12%) Network Security
6 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
7 6 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (9.09%) IPsec
7 6 (9.09%) WAN
8 5 (7.58%) LAN
8 5 (7.58%) SSH
8 5 (7.58%) SSL
9 3 (4.55%) CATAPAN
10 2 (3.03%) NGFW
11 1 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
11 1 (1.52%) IPv6
11 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) GitLab
2 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.52%) JUnit
2 1 (1.52%) Maven
2 1 (1.52%) Mockito
2 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (7.58%) Finance
1 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
1 5 (7.58%) Retail
2 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (39.39%) Senior
2 25 (37.88%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (34.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (24.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (15.15%) Network Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (10.61%) Architect
10 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) NOC Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Technical Architect
11 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Citrix Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) ARM Templates
2 5 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (6.06%) .NET
3 4 (6.06%) 802.1X
3 4 (6.06%) Loki
4 1 (1.52%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.52%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.52%) JPA
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) SOAP
4 1 (1.52%) Spring
4 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.52%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (22.73%) PKI
3 9 (13.64%) Onboarding
4 7 (10.61%) Public Cloud
5 6 (9.09%) ARM Cortex
5 6 (9.09%) Data Centre
6 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.06%) Security Posture
7 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
8 2 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.52%) CMDB
9 1 (1.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.52%) Replication
9 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (40.91%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.09%) Debian
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
2 16 (24.24%) ITIL
3 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (18.18%) DevOps
5 10 (15.15%) Network Monitoring
5 10 (15.15%) Observability
6 9 (13.64%) Analytics
6 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (13.64%) Security Operations
6 9 (13.64%) SIEM
7 8 (12.12%) Incident Response
7 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 8 (12.12%) Log Analytics
7 8 (12.12%) Service Management
8 7 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (10.61%) Migration
8 7 (10.61%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (10.61%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.70%) Bash
1 13 (19.70%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.12%) Bicep
3 6 (9.09%) Python
4 5 (7.58%) Go
5 1 (1.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 47 (71.21%) Security Cleared
2 34 (51.52%) DV Cleared
3 29 (43.94%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) RHCE
4 7 (10.61%) RHCSA
5 6 (9.09%) CCNP
5 6 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.09%) Degree
5 6 (9.09%) LFCS
6 5 (7.58%) CCSE
6 5 (7.58%) CCSM
7 4 (6.06%) LPIC
8 1 (1.52%) CCDA
8 1 (1.52%) CCDP
8 1 (1.52%) CCIE
8 1 (1.52%) CCIP
8 1 (1.52%) CCNA
8 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) NIST
2 6 (9.09%) NCSC
3 5 (7.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (7.58%) GDPR
3 5 (7.58%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.58%) SLA
4 4 (6.06%) GRC
5 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.52%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 19 (28.79%) VMware NSX
2 17 (25.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (21.21%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.58%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.52%) Docker
5 1 (1.52%) Firmware
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Terraform
2 6 (9.09%) Ansible
2 6 (9.09%) Grafana
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 6 (9.09%) SCCM
3 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.06%) Istio
4 4 (6.06%) Rancher
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.52%) CASB
6 1 (1.52%) Packer
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (51.52%) VMware
2 17 (25.76%) Citrix
3 16 (24.24%) Microsoft
4 15 (22.73%) Cisco
4 15 (22.73%) Palo Alto
5 7 (10.61%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (10.61%) Red Hat
6 6 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 6 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 6 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 6 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 4 (6.06%) Becrypt
8 2 (3.03%) Splunk
9 1 (1.52%) Arista
9 1 (1.52%) Aruba
9 1 (1.52%) HP
9 1 (1.52%) Juniper
9 1 (1.52%) Meraki
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle
9 1 (1.52%) Zscaler