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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 33 23
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 54 7 20
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.31% 2.81% 6.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.97% 15.22% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 5 17
10th Percentile £461 - £406
25th Percentile £503 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £529 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +10.10% -
75th Percentile £610 £543 £565
90th Percentile £623 £553 £705
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £566 £529 £480
% change year-on-year +7.14% +10.10% -

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 74 46 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.38% 18.47% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 29 69
10th Percentile £321 £184 £250
25th Percentile £500 £225 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £325 £420
Median % change year-on-year +68.68% -22.62% -11.58%
75th Percentile £610 £375 £484
90th Percentile £629 £539 £553
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £325 £415
% change year-on-year +65.05% -21.69% -11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £15.75 - £21.13
25th Percentile £21.55 - £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.12 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.08% -55.53% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - £37.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £30.00
% change year-on-year +172.68% -52.67% +44.58%

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 27 September 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 1 (1.85%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
3 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 11 (20.37%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (12.96%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.85%) IaaS
7 1 (1.85%) OCI
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) DNS
2 14 (25.93%) Firewall
3 12 (22.22%) DHCP
3 12 (22.22%) VPN
4 9 (16.67%) Network Security
5 8 (14.81%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (14.81%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
7 6 (11.11%) SSH
8 5 (9.26%) IPsec
8 5 (9.26%) LAN
8 5 (9.26%) SSL
8 5 (9.26%) WAN
9 4 (7.41%) VSAN
10 3 (5.56%) CATAPAN
10 3 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (3.70%) NGFW
12 1 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.85%) DataStage
2 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.85%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) GitLab
1 1 (1.85%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (9.26%) Finance
2 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
2 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.56%) Retail
3 2 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (1.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Senior
2 23 (42.59%) Linux Engineer
3 21 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (25.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Network Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) VMware Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) Terraform
2 10 (18.52%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.56%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.85%) .NET
4 1 (1.85%) Loki
4 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (20.37%) PKI
3 9 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 7 (12.96%) ARM Cortex
5 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) CMDB
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.85%) Replication
7 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (46.30%) Windows
2 12 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 5 (9.26%) Debian
4 4 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (27.78%) ITIL
3 11 (20.37%) Analytics
3 11 (20.37%) Log Analytics
4 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (14.81%) DevOps
6 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (14.81%) Network Monitoring
6 8 (14.81%) Network Virtualisation
6 8 (14.81%) Observability
6 8 (14.81%) Security Hardening
6 8 (14.81%) Security Operations
7 7 (12.96%) RBAC
7 7 (12.96%) Service Management
7 7 (12.96%) Validation
8 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 6 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) PowerShell
2 11 (20.37%) Bash
3 10 (18.52%) Bicep
4 2 (3.70%) SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (1.85%) JCL
5 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Python
5 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (81.48%) Security Cleared
2 28 (51.85%) DV Cleared
3 22 (40.74%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 5 (9.26%) RHCE
4 5 (9.26%) RHCSA
5 4 (7.41%) LFCS
6 3 (5.56%) CCNP
6 3 (5.56%) CCSE
6 3 (5.56%) CCSM
6 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.70%) LPIC
8 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.85%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) NIST
2 3 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) GRC
3 1 (1.85%) NCSC
3 1 (1.85%) OpenSCAP
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 13 (24.07%) VMware NSX
3 12 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (12.96%) SCCM
2 5 (9.26%) Ansible
3 2 (3.70%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (3.70%) SCOM
4 1 (1.85%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Istio
4 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.85%) Packer
4 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.85%) Rancher
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) VMware
2 14 (25.93%) Citrix
2 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.81%) Cisco
3 8 (14.81%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (14.81%) Palo Alto
4 7 (12.96%) ServiceNow
5 6 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 5 (9.26%) SolarWinds
7 4 (7.41%) Becrypt
8 3 (5.56%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.56%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.70%) Oracle
10 1 (1.85%) IBM
10 1 (1.85%) Splunk
10 1 (1.85%) Tenable
10 1 (1.85%) Teradata