Linux Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Linux Engineer
England > North of England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 159 163
Rank change year-on-year -31 +4 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 16 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.35% 0.18% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.20% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 17
10th Percentile £428 £419 £411
25th Percentile £459 £431 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £531
90th Percentile £594 £570 £545
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,226 3,485 4,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.00% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 1,960 2,985
10th Percentile £213 £239 £265
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 195 205
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.36 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.76 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -9.96% +30.95%
75th Percentile £53.44 £44.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £67.91 £61.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Yorkshire -30 11 £525 -4.55%
North West -17 4 £378 -16.11%
North East - 1 £600 -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (31.25%) Ansible
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
5 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (12.50%) Bash
6 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 2 (12.50%) Docker
6 2 (12.50%) Groovy
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (12.50%) LDAP
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 2 (12.50%) Python
6 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
6 2 (12.50%) Security Hardening
6 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (12.50%) Splunk
6 2 (12.50%) vRealize

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) iPlanet
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.25%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.25%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (12.50%) Security Hardening
4 1 (6.25%) Application Virtualisation
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.25%) Security Patching
4 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
1 2 (12.50%) Groovy
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) C++
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.25%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) vRealize
2 2 (12.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (6.25%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) CA Wily
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Istio
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) SELinux
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Citrix
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.25%) Broadcom
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle