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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 34 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 28 7 29
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.88% 3.24% 5.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.64% 17.95% 36.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 25
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £525 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +42.35% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £640 £438 -
90th Percentile £654 £544 £556
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £595 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +40.00% -22.73% -

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 44 39 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.24% 18.06% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 49
10th Percentile £220 £190 £175
25th Percentile £390 £244 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £421 £485
Median % change year-on-year +30.80% -13.30% -3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £550
90th Percentile £646 £550 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £375 £465
% change year-on-year +26.67% -19.35% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 18
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £20.63
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +45.45%

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 28 February 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 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) DNS
1 12 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.71%) SAN
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) VSAN
4 1 (3.57%) BGP
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (3.57%) IPsec
4 1 (3.57%) IPv6
4 1 (3.57%) MPLS
4 1 (3.57%) Multicast
4 1 (3.57%) OSPF
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) SNMP
4 1 (3.57%) VoIP
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) VXLAN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Jaeger
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) Mockito
2 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.57%) Storybook
General
1 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Lead
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Technical Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Loki
2 2 (7.14%) Spring
2 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) JPA
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Vitest
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (28.57%) Cyberattack
3 6 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (17.86%) PKI
5 3 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
7 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (3.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Debian
2 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 11 (39.29%) SIEM
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Security Operations
4 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (28.57%) DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.29%) Agile
7 4 (14.29%) AI
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) ITIL
7 4 (14.29%) Problem Management
8 3 (10.71%) AI Transformation
8 3 (10.71%) GitOps
8 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (10.71%) Observability
8 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) Go
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (53.57%) DV Cleared
3 12 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (17.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (17.86%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) LFCS
5 2 (7.14%) RHCE
5 2 (7.14%) RHCSA
6 1 (3.57%) CCDA
6 1 (3.57%) CCDP
6 1 (3.57%) CCIE
6 1 (3.57%) CCIP
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
6 1 (3.57%) CCNP
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.57%) LPIC
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
1 3 (10.71%) NCSC
1 3 (10.71%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.14%) GRC
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
1 4 (14.29%) Grafana
1 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Podman
2 3 (10.71%) Proxmox
2 3 (10.71%) Rancher
3 2 (7.14%) Istio
4 1 (3.57%) CASB
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Splunk
2 6 (21.43%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.29%) Zscaler
5 3 (10.71%) Cisco
5 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.57%) Arista
6 1 (3.57%) Aruba
6 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) HP
6 1 (3.57%) Juniper
6 1 (3.57%) Meraki
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds