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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 62 8 32
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.18% 4.47% 8.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.52% 21.05% 51.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 7 28
10th Percentile £456 £415 £411
25th Percentile £503 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -0.29%
75th Percentile £610 £540 £550
90th Percentile £643 £550 £601
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £525 £511
% change year-on-year +2.17% +2.74% +1.19%

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 77 38 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.16% 21.23% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 24 43
10th Percentile £392 £231 £230
25th Percentile £474 £325 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +43.04% -21.05% -
75th Percentile £610 £538 £540
90th Percentile £641 £548 £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £421 £450
% change year-on-year +24.85% -6.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.12 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -33.04% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £14.20 £22.51
% change year-on-year +23.24% -36.92% +18.47%

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 21 June 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 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 26 (41.94%) AWS
3 6 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (9.68%) GitHub
3 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) IaaS
7 1 (1.61%) PaaS
7 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.13%) DNS
1 10 (16.13%) VSAN
2 9 (14.52%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (14.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (9.68%) Firewall
3 6 (9.68%) TCP/IP
4 5 (8.06%) IPsec
4 5 (8.06%) VPN
4 5 (8.06%) WAN
5 4 (6.45%) DHCP
5 4 (6.45%) LAN
5 4 (6.45%) Network Security
5 4 (6.45%) SSL
6 3 (4.84%) CATAPAN
7 1 (1.61%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.61%) Multicast
7 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.61%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Maven
3 1 (1.61%) Mockito
3 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.61%) Storybook
General
1 5 (8.06%) Finance
1 5 (8.06%) Manufacturing
1 5 (8.06%) Retail
2 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (37.10%) Linux Engineer
1 23 (37.10%) Senior
2 19 (30.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (19.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Citrix Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Network Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) VMware Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (11.29%) Analyst
7 7 (11.29%) Architect
8 5 (8.06%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (8.06%) Technical Architect
9 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (6.45%) .NET
2 4 (6.45%) 802.1X
2 4 (6.45%) Loki
3 2 (3.23%) Spring
3 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.61%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.61%) CSS
4 1 (1.61%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.61%) HTML
4 1 (1.61%) JPA
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) REST
4 1 (1.61%) SOAP
4 1 (1.61%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Vitest
4 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) PKI
2 11 (17.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.29%) Public Cloud
3 7 (11.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (9.68%) Cyberattack
4 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
5 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) CMDB
7 1 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.71%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Debian
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) VMS
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (22.58%) SIEM
3 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
3 13 (20.97%) Incident Response
4 11 (17.74%) ITIL
5 10 (16.13%) Containerisation
5 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (16.13%) Security Operations
6 9 (14.52%) DevOps
6 9 (14.52%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (9.68%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (9.68%) Load Balancing
7 6 (9.68%) Migration
7 6 (9.68%) Observability
7 6 (9.68%) Virtual Environments
8 5 (8.06%) Change Management
8 5 (8.06%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.06%) Requirements Management
8 5 (8.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.29%) Python
2 5 (8.06%) Bash
2 5 (8.06%) Go
2 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (69.35%) Security Cleared
2 34 (54.84%) SC Cleared
3 27 (43.55%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.29%) RHCE
4 7 (11.29%) RHCSA
5 6 (9.68%) CCNP
5 6 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.68%) Degree
5 6 (9.68%) LFCS
6 5 (8.06%) CCSE
6 5 (8.06%) CCSM
7 4 (6.45%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (6.45%) LPIC
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.61%) CCDA
8 1 (1.61%) CCIP
8 1 (1.61%) CCNA
8 1 (1.61%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) NIST
2 6 (9.68%) NCSC
3 5 (8.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (8.06%) GDPR
3 5 (8.06%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.06%) SLA
4 4 (6.45%) GRC
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) VMware NSX
2 16 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.06%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.23%) Docker
5 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Grafana
1 6 (9.68%) Prometheus
1 6 (9.68%) Terraform
2 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.45%) Istio
3 4 (6.45%) Rancher
4 2 (3.23%) Ansible
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.61%) CASB
5 1 (1.61%) Packer
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (53.23%) VMware
2 17 (27.42%) Citrix
3 14 (22.58%) Cisco
3 14 (22.58%) Palo Alto
4 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
5 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
6 6 (9.68%) CheckPoint
6 6 (9.68%) Fortinet
6 6 (9.68%) ServiceNow
6 6 (9.68%) Splunk
7 5 (8.06%) SolarWinds
8 3 (4.84%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.61%) Arista
9 1 (1.61%) Aruba
9 1 (1.61%) HP
9 1 (1.61%) Juniper
9 1 (1.61%) Meraki
9 1 (1.61%) Zscaler