Linux Contracts in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 37 28
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 207 202 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 6.28% 4.24% 5.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.16% 27.86% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 142 249
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £392 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.57% -9.05% -1.64%
75th Percentile £625 £582 £650
90th Percentile £750 £636 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 17
10th Percentile £46.44 - £25.75
25th Percentile £55.35 £21.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £75.40 £48.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.07% +20.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £83.18 £55.88 £49.40
90th Percentile £84.74 £65.00 £52.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 557 725 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.90% 15.21% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 652
10th Percentile £163 £167 £165
25th Percentile £210 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 80 57
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.95 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -44.25% +63.35%
75th Percentile £19.75 £19.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.50 £30.68 £49.52
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +6 99 £550 +10.00% 80
North West +24 98 £510 +13.31% 186
North East 0 13 £525 -4.55% 38
Linux
England

Linux
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 16 (7.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (5.31%) Confluence
3 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.83%) nginx
4 7 (3.38%) Traefik
5 5 (2.42%) JBoss
5 5 (2.42%) Mattermost
5 5 (2.42%) Skype for Business
5 5 (2.42%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.93%) Apache
6 4 (1.93%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.97%) IIS
7 2 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.48%) Documentum
8 1 (0.48%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.42%) Kondor
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.37%) AWS
2 41 (19.81%) Azure
3 24 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (10.14%) Entra ID
4 21 (10.14%) GCP
5 15 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (4.83%) AWS Fargate
9 9 (4.35%) Slack
10 8 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.90%) OpenShift
13 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.42%) Collibra
14 4 (1.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 4 (1.93%) npm
14 4 (1.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (18.84%) DNS
2 14 (6.76%) SAN
3 13 (6.28%) TCP/IP
4 11 (5.31%) Firewall
4 11 (5.31%) NAS
5 10 (4.83%) HTTP
6 8 (3.86%) DHCP
7 7 (3.38%) LAN
8 6 (2.90%) Network Security
9 5 (2.42%) Skype
9 5 (2.42%) Softphone
9 5 (2.42%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.42%) WAN
9 5 (2.42%) WebEx
10 4 (1.93%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.93%) Wireless
11 3 (1.45%) Internet
11 3 (1.45%) VPN
11 3 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.01%) MongoDB
2 24 (11.59%) Oracle Database
3 18 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.25%) MySQL
5 14 (6.76%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.90%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.42%) Siebel EIM
10 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.97%) Big Data
11 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.97%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.48%) DB2
Development Applications
1 42 (20.29%) GitLab
2 39 (18.84%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.98%) Git
4 19 (9.18%) JIRA
5 14 (6.76%) Jasmine
6 10 (4.83%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.83%) JUnit
7 5 (2.42%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.42%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.42%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.93%) Mocha
8 4 (1.93%) Selenium
8 4 (1.93%) Subversion
9 3 (1.45%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.45%) Grunt
9 3 (1.45%) gulp
9 3 (1.45%) Maven
10 2 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 53 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.46%) Public Sector
3 27 (13.04%) Finance
4 21 (10.14%) Banking
5 13 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.86%) Law
7 6 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.93%) Legal
9 4 (1.93%) Military
10 2 (0.97%) Aviation
10 2 (0.97%) Electronics
10 2 (0.97%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Police
10 2 (0.97%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (16.91%) Senior
3 32 (15.46%) Developer
4 30 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (9.66%) Senior DevOps
6 18 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (8.21%) Architect
8 16 (7.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.80%) Support Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 11 (5.31%) Java Developer
12 10 (4.83%) Engineering Specialist
12 10 (4.83%) IT Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.35%) Analyst
13 9 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.35%) Lead
14 8 (3.86%) Security Engineer
14 8 (3.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 17 (8.21%) cloud-init
3 14 (6.76%) RESTful
4 12 (5.80%) Kafka
4 12 (5.80%) Spring
5 11 (5.31%) Spring Security
6 10 (4.83%) SOAP
6 10 (4.83%) Spring Batch
7 9 (4.35%) Keycloak
7 9 (4.35%) Middleware
7 9 (4.35%) Swagger
8 8 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (3.86%) OpenAPI
8 8 (3.86%) pytest
9 7 (3.38%) LDAP
9 7 (3.38%) REST
9 7 (3.38%) Web Services
10 6 (2.90%) CSS
10 6 (2.90%) HTML
10 6 (2.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.18%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (6.28%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.35%) PKI
6 8 (3.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.90%) Replication
9 5 (2.42%) Derivative
10 4 (1.93%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.45%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.45%) Clustering
11 3 (1.45%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.45%) IVR
11 3 (1.45%) Robotics
11 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (39.13%) Windows
2 67 (32.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 50 (24.15%) Unix
4 46 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 23 (11.11%) CentOS
6 10 (4.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (4.35%) Solaris
8 8 (3.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.90%) HPUX
10 5 (2.42%) Android
11 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.45%) AIX
12 3 (1.45%) Mac OS X
12 3 (1.45%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.45%) VMS
12 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (32.85%) CI/CD
2 57 (27.54%) DevOps
3 52 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (24.64%) Microservices
5 46 (22.22%) Agile
6 43 (20.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 34 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (13.53%) Migration
10 24 (11.59%) Containerisation
11 23 (11.11%) High Availability
12 22 (10.63%) Security Management
13 18 (8.70%) Observability
14 17 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (8.21%) TDD
15 16 (7.73%) SOA
15 16 (7.73%) Software Engineering
16 15 (7.25%) Data Protection
16 15 (7.25%) ITIL
16 15 (7.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (34.78%) Python
2 66 (31.88%) Bash
3 61 (29.47%) SQL
4 31 (14.98%) PowerShell
5 29 (14.01%) Java
6 27 (13.04%) Perl
7 25 (12.08%) PL/SQL
8 19 (9.18%) Go
9 16 (7.73%) Shell Script
10 15 (7.25%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.42%) C++
11 5 (2.42%) Ruby
12 3 (1.45%) Groovy
13 2 (0.97%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.97%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.48%) Bicep
14 1 (0.48%) Korn
14 1 (0.48%) Rust
14 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (4.83%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.93%) MCSE
7 4 (1.93%) RHCE
8 3 (1.45%) Degree
9 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.97%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.48%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.35%) NCSC
2 8 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.42%) Basel III
3 5 (2.42%) HL7
3 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.42%) MiFID
3 5 (2.42%) SLA
4 4 (1.93%) WCAG
5 2 (0.97%) NIST
5 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.97%) QA
6 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 58 (28.02%) Active Directory
2 37 (17.87%) Docker
3 18 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.86%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (3.86%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.42%) vSphere
6 4 (1.93%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.97%) KVM
8 2 (0.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 66 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 48 (23.19%) Terraform
3 27 (13.04%) Grafana
4 25 (12.08%) Ansible
5 22 (10.63%) Prometheus
6 20 (9.66%) Packer
7 13 (6.28%) Istio
7 13 (6.28%) ZABBIX
8 12 (5.80%) Progress Chef
8 12 (5.80%) vCenter Server
9 10 (4.83%) Puppet
10 9 (4.35%) Consul
10 9 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (4.35%) linkerd
10 9 (4.35%) Rancher
11 8 (3.86%) Kibana
12 7 (3.38%) HAProxy
13 5 (2.42%) SCOM
13 5 (2.42%) vRealize
14 4 (1.93%) Control-M
Vendors
1 42 (20.29%) Oracle
2 37 (17.87%) Cisco
3 36 (17.39%) Splunk
4 32 (15.46%) Red Hat
5 31 (14.98%) VMware
6 28 (13.53%) Microsoft
7 12 (5.80%) IBM
8 11 (5.31%) AppDynamics
9 10 (4.83%) Apple
9 10 (4.83%) Veeam
10 9 (4.35%) HP
10 9 (4.35%) Okta
11 7 (3.38%) ESET
12 5 (2.42%) Fortinet
12 5 (2.42%) Siebel
12 5 (2.42%) Sybase
12 5 (2.42%) Veritas
13 4 (1.93%) Citrix
13 4 (1.93%) Cloudera
13 4 (1.93%) Sun