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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 29 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Linux 20 8 28
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.87% 3.70% 5.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 20.51% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 24
10th Percentile £520 - £479
25th Percentile £550 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £501 -
90th Percentile £655 £599 -
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 35 39 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 8.52% 18.06% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 31 55
10th Percentile £212 £200 £175
25th Percentile £268 £262 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £421 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.80% -15.90% -2.91%
75th Percentile £630 £438 £550
90th Percentile £643 £565 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £465 £388 £500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -22.50% -3.75%
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 - - £23.75
% change year-on-year - - +39.71%

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 14 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 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) DNS
1 11 (55.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) SAN
3 2 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) BGP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (5.00%) IPsec
4 1 (5.00%) IPv6
4 1 (5.00%) MPLS
4 1 (5.00%) Multicast
4 1 (5.00%) OSPF
4 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.00%) SNMP
4 1 (5.00%) VoIP
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) Wireless
4 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.00%) Mockito
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.00%) Storybook
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
2 8 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Spring
1 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) JPA
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Vitest
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (35.00%) Cyberattack
3 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (15.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Debian
2 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 10 (50.00%) SIEM
3 9 (45.00%) Security Operations
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (25.00%) DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) AI
7 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
8 3 (15.00%) AI Transformation
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
9 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
9 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
9 2 (10.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (65.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 4 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) CCDA
5 1 (5.00%) CCDP
5 1 (5.00%) CCIE
5 1 (5.00%) CCIP
5 1 (5.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) CCNP
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Podman
2 3 (15.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.00%) CASB
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Splunk
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Arista
5 1 (5.00%) Aruba
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) HP
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds