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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 27 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +25
Contract jobs citing Linux 49 4 32
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.87% 2.38% 8.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.24% 21.05% 49.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 4 27
10th Percentile £456 - £425
25th Percentile £503 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £423 £535
Median % change year-on-year +30.10% -20.98% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £550
90th Percentile £648 - £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £543 £421 £521
% change year-on-year +29.18% -19.33% -0.19%

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 66 19 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.26% 11.31% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 15 47
10th Percentile £367 £224 £209
25th Percentile £468 £325 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £375 £463
Median % change year-on-year +43.04% -18.92% -8.42%
75th Percentile £610 £432 £550
90th Percentile £643 £505 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £518 £421 £450
% change year-on-year +23.07% -6.56% -10.00%
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% -

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 4 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 (4.08%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) GitHub
3 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.08%) GCP
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.04%) IaaS
8 1 (2.04%) PaaS
8 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.49%) TCP/IP
2 10 (20.41%) DNS
3 7 (14.29%) VSAN
4 3 (6.12%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (6.12%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (6.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (6.12%) Firewall
4 3 (6.12%) SAN
5 2 (4.08%) IPsec
5 2 (4.08%) VPN
5 2 (4.08%) WAN
6 1 (2.04%) DHCP
6 1 (2.04%) IPv6
6 1 (2.04%) LAN
6 1 (2.04%) MPLS
6 1 (2.04%) OSPF
6 1 (2.04%) SNMP
6 1 (2.04%) SSL
6 1 (2.04%) VoIP
6 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Jaeger
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) JUnit
3 1 (2.04%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) Maven
3 1 (2.04%) Mockito
3 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.04%) Storybook
General
1 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.08%) Finance
2 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.08%) Retail
3 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (28.57%) Senior
3 10 (20.41%) Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) SOC Analyst
5 7 (14.29%) Architect
6 6 (12.24%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Technical Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Citrix Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Lead
8 4 (8.16%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Network Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Technical Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (8.16%) .NET
2 4 (8.16%) Loki
3 2 (4.08%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.08%) Spring
3 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.04%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.04%) CSS
4 1 (2.04%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.04%) HTML
4 1 (2.04%) JPA
4 1 (2.04%) React
4 1 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (2.04%) SOAP
4 1 (2.04%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Vitest
4 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (18.37%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (16.33%) Cyberattack
4 7 (14.29%) PKI
5 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
6 3 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
7 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.04%) CMDB
8 1 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.73%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Debian
3 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.04%) VMS
5 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Incident Response
2 14 (28.57%) SIEM
3 13 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (20.41%) Security Operations
5 9 (18.37%) DevOps
6 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
6 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (16.33%) ITIL
6 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Observability
8 6 (12.24%) Problem Management
9 5 (10.20%) Agile
9 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.20%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (10.20%) Microservices
9 5 (10.20%) Migration
9 5 (10.20%) Requirements Management
9 5 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.33%) Python
2 5 (10.20%) Bash
2 5 (10.20%) Go
2 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Java
3 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (75.51%) Security Cleared
2 30 (61.22%) SC Cleared
3 25 (51.02%) DV Cleared
4 7 (14.29%) Degree
5 5 (10.20%) CompTIA CySA+
5 5 (10.20%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (10.20%) RHCE
5 5 (10.20%) RHCSA
6 4 (8.16%) LFCS
7 3 (6.12%) CCNP
7 3 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (6.12%) LPIC
8 2 (4.08%) CCSE
8 2 (4.08%) CCSM
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.04%) CCIP
9 1 (2.04%) CCNA
9 1 (2.04%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) NCSC
1 6 (12.24%) NIST
2 5 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (10.20%) GDPR
2 5 (10.20%) PCI DSS
3 4 (8.16%) GRC
4 2 (4.08%) SLA
5 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.04%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (18.37%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.08%) Docker
3 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Grafana
1 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
1 6 (12.24%) Terraform
2 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Istio
3 4 (8.16%) Rancher
4 2 (4.08%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) CASB
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.04%) Packer
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (38.78%) VMware
2 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.37%) Splunk
3 8 (16.33%) Cisco
3 8 (16.33%) Palo Alto
3 8 (16.33%) Red Hat
4 6 (12.24%) Citrix
5 3 (6.12%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.12%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) Arista
7 1 (2.04%) Aruba
7 1 (2.04%) Becrypt
7 1 (2.04%) HP
7 1 (2.04%) Juniper
7 1 (2.04%) Meraki
7 1 (2.04%) Zscaler