Linux Contracts in North London

Linux
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North London requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in North London 7.69% 6.90% 6.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% 100.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £251 - £408
25th Percentile £255 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £250 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -52.38% -34.38%
75th Percentile £285 - £563
90th Percentile £290 - £578
London median daily rate £588 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +3.98% -9.60% +2.04%

All Operating Systems
North London

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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 11.54% 6.90% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £254 - £188
25th Percentile £263 - £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £250 £388
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -35.48% +127.94%
75th Percentile £421 - £494
90th Percentile £499 - £558
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate - - £15.50
75th Percentile - - £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in North London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in North London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in North London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in North London.

Daily rate trend for Linux in North London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in North London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in North London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in North London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in North London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Server Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Server Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (100.00%) Server Management
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware