Linux Contracts in Milton Keynes

Linux
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 29 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 3.96% 8.15% 5.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.60% 46.03% 37.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 37
10th Percentile £415 £409 £379
25th Percentile £464 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +4.39% -21.15%
75th Percentile £540 £560 £550
90th Percentile £550 £715 £559
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £511 £506
% change year-on-year +2.74% +0.94% -15.63%

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 43 63 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 21.29% 17.70% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 92
10th Percentile £204 £233 £227
25th Percentile £325 £393 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £456 £473
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -3.44% -0.53%
75th Percentile £506 £543 £550
90th Percentile £546 £615 £592
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £388 £450 £470
% change year-on-year -13.89% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 0
Median hourly rate £15.12 £22.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.04% - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £22.51 £20.75
% change year-on-year -36.92% +8.48% +59.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Linux Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Debian
2 5 (62.50%) Ubuntu
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Statistics
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Isilon
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) Remedy
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam