Linux Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Linux
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 1.43% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £455
% change year-on-year +5.88% -6.59% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +11.54%

All Operating Systems
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 60 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 42.86% 19.05% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 4
10th Percentile - £195 £120
25th Percentile £126 £278 £141
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £171 £295 £168
Median % change year-on-year -42.03% +76.12% -24.72%
75th Percentile £238 £338 £229
90th Percentile £340 £357 £317
East of England median daily rate £335 £363 £425
% change year-on-year -7.59% -14.71% +12.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 0
10th Percentile £6.00 - -
25th Percentile £13.74 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% - -
75th Percentile £23.71 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -34.62% +348.28% -34.09%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk.

Linux job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Norwich - 1 £475 - 20
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (50.00%) VMware