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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 30 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 56 9 20
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.26% 3.57% 6.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.68% 19.15% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 7 18
10th Percentile £462 £513 £406
25th Percentile £503 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £510
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% +4.90% +4.08%
75th Percentile £622 £568 £610
90th Percentile £630 £615 £703
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £535 £510
% change year-on-year +7.48% +4.90% +4.08%

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 76 47 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 12.56% 18.65% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 30 71
10th Percentile £385 £185 £238
25th Percentile £502 £226 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £325 £415
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -21.69% -11.70%
75th Percentile £622 £522 £482
90th Percentile £630 £562 £565
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £563 £299 £413
% change year-on-year +87.97% -27.45% -11.76%
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 £15.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year +156.08% -49.60% +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 12 October 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 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (51.79%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (19.64%) Entra ID
5 10 (17.86%) AWS
6 6 (10.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.79%) IaaS
8 1 (1.79%) OCI
8 1 (1.79%) PaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (35.71%) DNS
2 19 (33.93%) Firewall
3 17 (30.36%) DHCP
3 17 (30.36%) VPN
4 11 (19.64%) Network Security
4 11 (19.64%) TCP/IP
5 8 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
5 8 (14.29%) SSH
6 5 (8.93%) IPsec
6 5 (8.93%) LAN
6 5 (8.93%) SSL
6 5 (8.93%) WAN
7 4 (7.14%) VSAN
8 3 (5.36%) CATAPAN
8 3 (5.36%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.57%) NGFW
10 1 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.79%) DataStage
2 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.79%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.79%) Power BI
2 1 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) GitLab
1 1 (1.79%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (8.93%) Finance
2 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.36%) Military
3 3 (5.36%) Retail
3 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (48.21%) Senior
2 24 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (33.93%) Linux Engineer
4 17 (30.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (19.64%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Network Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (8.93%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) NOC Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Senior Citrix Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) Terraform
2 15 (26.79%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.36%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.79%) .NET
4 1 (1.79%) Loki
4 1 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (23.21%) Onboarding
3 11 (19.64%) ARM Cortex
4 10 (17.86%) PKI
5 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.79%) CMDB
8 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Replication
8 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (53.57%) Windows
2 18 (32.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.14%) Debian
3 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (32.14%) ITIL
3 17 (30.36%) Analytics
3 17 (30.36%) Log Analytics
4 15 (26.79%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 12 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
7 11 (19.64%) DevOps
7 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (19.64%) Observability
7 11 (19.64%) Security Hardening
7 11 (19.64%) Security Operations
8 10 (17.86%) Network Virtualisation
8 10 (17.86%) Service Management
9 9 (16.07%) Data Collection
9 9 (16.07%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (16.07%) RBAC
9 9 (16.07%) Validation
9 9 (16.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) PowerShell
2 17 (30.36%) Bash
3 15 (26.79%) Bicep
4 2 (3.57%) SQL
5 1 (1.79%) Go
5 1 (1.79%) JCL
5 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.79%) Python
5 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (80.36%) Security Cleared
2 29 (51.79%) DV Cleared
3 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.71%) Degree
5 5 (8.93%) RHCE
5 5 (8.93%) RHCSA
6 4 (7.14%) LFCS
7 3 (5.36%) CCNP
7 3 (5.36%) CCSE
7 3 (5.36%) CCSM
7 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.57%) LPIC
9 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) NIST
2 3 (5.36%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) GRC
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) OpenSCAP
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (21.43%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (21.43%) SCCM
2 10 (17.86%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (3.57%) SCOM
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Istio
4 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.79%) Packer
4 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.79%) Rancher
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) VMware
2 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
3 13 (23.21%) Citrix
3 13 (23.21%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (14.29%) Cisco
4 8 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 7 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 6 (10.71%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.93%) SolarWinds
8 4 (7.14%) Becrypt
9 3 (5.36%) CheckPoint
9 3 (5.36%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.57%) Oracle
11 1 (1.79%) IBM
11 1 (1.79%) Splunk
11 1 (1.79%) Tenable
11 1 (1.79%) Teradata