Linux Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Linux Engineer
England > North of England

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 160 192
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 24 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.40% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 15
10th Percentile £385 £274 £313
25th Percentile £400 £395 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £554
90th Percentile £575 - £626
England median daily rate £520 £527 £575
% change year-on-year -1.28% -8.43% +5.02%

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 3,057 4,297 5,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.11% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,026 2,698 3,720
10th Percentile £230 £263 £281
25th Percentile £367 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 404 158
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.13 £12.60 £17.85
Median hourly rate £24.59 £20.89 £29.65
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -29.56% +55.68%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £49.30
90th Percentile £75.25 £62.50 £66.21
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer 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 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the North of England

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer 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 23 May 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
North West +13 14 £500 +17.65% 6
Yorkshire +17 9 £525 -14.29% 12
North East 0 1 £350 -18.79% 5
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Red Hat
3 9 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (33.33%) Bash
4 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 8 (33.33%) Python
5 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (25.00%) Windows
6 6 (25.00%) DNS
6 6 (25.00%) Migration
7 5 (20.83%) Ruby
7 5 (20.83%) RHCE
7 5 (20.83%) Oracle
7 5 (20.83%) LDAP
7 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
7 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) Ansible
8 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
8 4 (16.67%) Agile
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco
8 4 (16.67%) Perl
8 4 (16.67%) SQL

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) DHCP
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) NAS
3 2 (8.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.17%) Internet
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) SSH
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Clustering
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (25.00%) Windows
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) VMS
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (25.00%) Migration
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
3 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) Microservices
5 3 (12.50%) Network Architecture
5 3 (12.50%) Security Management
5 3 (12.50%) SOA
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (12.50%) Use Case
6 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 2 (8.33%) Information Management
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (4.17%) High Availability
7 1 (4.17%) Performance Testing
7 1 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Bash
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Ruby
2 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
3 4 (16.67%) Perl
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) C++
4 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) RHCE
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Puppet
2 3 (12.50%) SELinux
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) ZABBIX
4 1 (4.17%) Graylog
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
5 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow