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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 31 19
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +13
Contract jobs citing Linux 65 6 26
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.43% 2.60% 7.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.47% 14.29% 37.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 5 22
10th Percentile £456 - £407
25th Percentile £503 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £529 £526
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% +0.57% +2.54%
75th Percentile £610 £543 £583
90th Percentile £643 £553 £760
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £529 £480
% change year-on-year +1.50% +10.10% -6.34%

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 85 42 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.02% 18.18% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 25 50
10th Percentile £393 £199 £306
25th Percentile £488 £325 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +43.04% -15.73% -6.32%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £539
90th Percentile £640 £556 £594
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £531 £388 £423
% change year-on-year +36.96% -8.28% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £22.36 - -
25th Percentile £29.65 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.12 £22.52
Median % change year-on-year +156.08% -32.86% -
75th Percentile £43.75 - £33.37
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £20.25
% change year-on-year +172.68% -29.88% -2.41%

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 19 July 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 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.77%) Azure
2 26 (40.00%) AWS
3 11 (16.92%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (10.77%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (9.23%) GitHub
5 6 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.08%) GCP
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.54%) IaaS
9 1 (1.54%) PaaS
9 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.00%) DNS
2 12 (18.46%) Firewall
3 11 (16.92%) VPN
4 10 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (15.38%) DHCP
4 10 (15.38%) VSAN
5 7 (10.77%) Network Security
5 7 (10.77%) TCP/IP
6 6 (9.23%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (9.23%) IPsec
6 6 (9.23%) WAN
7 5 (7.69%) LAN
7 5 (7.69%) SSL
8 4 (6.15%) SSH
9 3 (4.62%) CATAPAN
10 2 (3.08%) NGFW
11 1 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
11 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Jaeger
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) JUnit
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Maven
3 1 (1.54%) Mockito
3 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) Storybook
General
1 5 (7.69%) Finance
1 5 (7.69%) Manufacturing
1 5 (7.69%) Retail
2 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Senior
2 24 (36.92%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (35.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (24.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) Citrix Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (15.38%) Network Engineer
7 9 (13.85%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (10.77%) Architect
10 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 5 (7.69%) NOC Engineer
11 5 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
11 5 (7.69%) Technical Architect
12 4 (6.15%) Senior Citrix Engineer
12 4 (6.15%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 3 (4.62%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) ARM Templates
2 5 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (6.15%) .NET
3 4 (6.15%) 802.1X
3 4 (6.15%) Loki
4 2 (3.08%) Spring
4 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.54%) CSS
5 1 (1.54%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.54%) HTML
5 1 (1.54%) JPA
5 1 (1.54%) React
5 1 (1.54%) REST
5 1 (1.54%) SOAP
5 1 (1.54%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Vitest
5 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (23.08%) PKI
3 8 (12.31%) Onboarding
4 7 (10.77%) Public Cloud
5 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
6 4 (6.15%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
7 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
7 3 (4.62%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (3.08%) Cyberattack
8 2 (3.08%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.54%) CMDB
9 1 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (41.54%) Windows
2 7 (10.77%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.23%) Debian
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (24.62%) CI/CD
3 15 (23.08%) ITIL
4 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (18.46%) DevOps
6 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 10 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (15.38%) SIEM
7 9 (13.85%) Incident Response
7 9 (13.85%) Observability
7 9 (13.85%) Security Operations
8 7 (10.77%) Analytics
8 7 (10.77%) Migration
8 7 (10.77%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (10.77%) Service Management
8 7 (10.77%) Virtual Environments
9 6 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (9.23%) Log Analytics
9 6 (9.23%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) Bash
1 11 (16.92%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.77%) Python
3 6 (9.23%) Bicep
4 5 (7.69%) Go
5 2 (3.08%) Java
6 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (70.77%) Security Cleared
2 32 (49.23%) DV Cleared
3 30 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) RHCE
4 7 (10.77%) RHCSA
5 6 (9.23%) CCNP
5 6 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.23%) Degree
5 6 (9.23%) LFCS
6 5 (7.69%) CCSE
6 5 (7.69%) CCSM
7 4 (6.15%) LPIC
8 2 (3.08%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.54%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) NIST
2 6 (9.23%) NCSC
3 5 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (7.69%) GDPR
3 5 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.69%) SLA
4 4 (6.15%) GRC
5 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.54%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 19 (29.23%) VMware NSX
2 17 (26.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.08%) Docker
6 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Terraform
2 6 (9.23%) Grafana
2 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
3 5 (7.69%) Ansible
3 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.15%) Istio
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.15%) Rancher
4 4 (6.15%) SCCM
5 3 (4.62%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.54%) CASB
6 1 (1.54%) Packer
6 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (52.31%) VMware
2 17 (26.15%) Citrix
3 15 (23.08%) Cisco
3 15 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
6 6 (9.23%) CheckPoint
6 6 (9.23%) Fortinet
6 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow
6 6 (9.23%) SolarWinds
7 5 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (6.15%) Becrypt
9 2 (3.08%) Splunk
10 1 (1.54%) Arista
10 1 (1.54%) Aruba
10 1 (1.54%) HP
10 1 (1.54%) Juniper
10 1 (1.54%) Meraki
10 1 (1.54%) Zscaler