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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 32 20
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 66 6 26
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.38% 2.52% 8.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.53% 15.00% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 5 22
10th Percentile £456 - £408
25th Percentile £503 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £529 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -2.13% +11.34%
75th Percentile £610 £543 £584
90th Percentile £643 £553 £760
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £529 £511
% change year-on-year +5.96% +3.42% +2.71%

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 91 40 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.55% 16.81% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 24 63
10th Percentile £392 £172 £256
25th Percentile £477 £227 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £325 £420
Median % change year-on-year +65.05% -22.62% -11.11%
75th Percentile £610 £491 £531
90th Percentile £639 £541 £565
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £363 £415
% change year-on-year +47.97% -12.65% -11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £15.75 - £18.90
25th Percentile £21.55 - £24.44
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.12 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.08% -52.75% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.56
90th Percentile - - £37.37
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £26.29
% change year-on-year +172.68% -45.99% +26.70%

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 16 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 35 (53.03%) Azure
2 23 (34.85%) AWS
3 13 (19.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (16.67%) 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
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.52%) IaaS
9 1 (1.52%) OCI
9 1 (1.52%) PaaS
9 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (22.73%) DNS
2 13 (19.70%) Firewall
3 11 (16.67%) DHCP
3 11 (16.67%) VPN
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 5 (7.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (7.58%) IPsec
7 5 (7.58%) LAN
7 5 (7.58%) SSH
7 5 (7.58%) SSL
7 5 (7.58%) WAN
8 3 (4.55%) CATAPAN
9 2 (3.03%) NGFW
10 1 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.52%) GitLab
General
1 5 (7.58%) Finance
1 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
1 5 (7.58%) Retail
2 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (40.91%) Senior
2 26 (39.39%) Linux Engineer
3 24 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (25.76%) 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%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 6 (9.09%) Architect
10 5 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
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%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.64%) ARM Templates
2 5 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (6.06%) .NET
3 4 (6.06%) Loki
4 3 (4.55%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.30%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (22.73%) PKI
3 10 (15.15%) Onboarding
4 7 (10.61%) ARM Cortex
4 7 (10.61%) Public Cloud
5 5 (7.58%) 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%) Private Cloud
8 2 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.52%) CMDB
9 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.52%) Replication
9 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (42.42%) Windows
2 11 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.09%) Debian
4 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (39.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (25.76%) ITIL
3 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (18.18%) DevOps
6 11 (16.67%) Observability
7 10 (15.15%) Analytics
7 10 (15.15%) Log Analytics
7 10 (15.15%) Network Monitoring
7 10 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 9 (13.64%) SIEM
9 8 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (12.12%) Security Operations
9 8 (12.12%) Service Management
10 7 (10.61%) Incident Response
10 7 (10.61%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (10.61%) Security Hardening
10 7 (10.61%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 14 (21.21%) Bash
3 9 (13.64%) Bicep
4 5 (7.58%) Go
4 5 (7.58%) Python
Qualifications
1 48 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 34 (51.52%) DV Cleared
3 30 (45.45%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) RHCE
4 7 (10.61%) RHCSA
5 6 (9.09%) Degree
5 6 (9.09%) LFCS
6 5 (7.58%) CCNP
6 5 (7.58%) CCSE
6 5 (7.58%) CCSM
6 5 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (6.06%) LPIC
8 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) NIST
2 5 (7.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.58%) GDPR
2 5 (7.58%) NCSC
2 5 (7.58%) PCI DSS
2 5 (7.58%) SLA
3 4 (6.06%) GRC
4 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%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Terraform
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (10.61%) SCCM
3 5 (7.58%) Ansible
3 5 (7.58%) Grafana
3 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.06%) Istio
4 4 (6.06%) Rancher
5 2 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (3.03%) SCOM
6 1 (1.52%) Packer
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 34 (51.52%) VMware
2 17 (25.76%) Citrix
2 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.21%) Cisco
3 14 (21.21%) Palo Alto
4 8 (12.12%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (10.61%) Red Hat
5 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.58%) CheckPoint
6 5 (7.58%) Fortinet
6 5 (7.58%) SolarWinds
7 4 (6.06%) Becrypt
8 2 (3.03%) Splunk
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle
9 1 (1.52%) Tenable