Linux Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Linux skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 53 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 -6 -30
Contract jobs citing Linux 237 152 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.93% 3.70% 4.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.44% 29.06% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 100 127
10th Percentile £317 £360 £298
25th Percentile £368 £425 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £607 £640 £650
90th Percentile £699 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 17
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile - £47.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +125.56% -32.29%
75th Percentile - £62.33 £45.88
90th Percentile - £73.29 £53.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

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 633 523 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.84% 12.72% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 330 468
10th Percentile £178 £181 £165
25th Percentile £265 £281 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £453 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% +6.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £560
90th Percentile £624 £738 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 41 58
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.87 £13.17
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.63 £16.31
Median hourly rate £17.98 £17.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -14.63% +3.80%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £20.39 £32.50 £53.79
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £46.69
% change year-on-year -56.07% +22.62% +95.27%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux

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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North of England

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux

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 17 September 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 +26 127 £500 -16.32% 50
North West +7 107 £402 -19.60% 97
North East -12 6 £575 +4.55% 19
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 27 (11.39%) JBoss
2 21 (8.86%) Apache
3 19 (8.02%) WebSphere
4 14 (5.91%) WebSphere Application Server
5 13 (5.49%) Tomcat
6 11 (4.64%) IIS
7 10 (4.22%) iPlanet
8 8 (3.38%) Mattermost
8 8 (3.38%) Skype for Business
9 4 (1.69%) Documentum
10 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
10 3 (1.27%) FileNet
10 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (1.27%) nginx
11 2 (0.84%) CICS
11 2 (0.84%) Confluence
12 1 (0.42%) CMS
12 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.42%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Kondor
2 1 (0.42%) Finacle
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (35.02%) AWS
2 43 (18.14%) GCP
3 33 (13.92%) OpenShift
4 27 (11.39%) Azure
5 22 (9.28%) Serverless
6 14 (5.91%) SaaS
7 13 (5.49%) IaaS
7 13 (5.49%) PaaS
8 12 (5.06%) GitHub
9 8 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
14 3 (1.27%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.92%) Firewall
2 14 (5.91%) SAN
3 12 (5.06%) DNS
3 12 (5.06%) Kerberos
3 12 (5.06%) NAS
4 11 (4.64%) SSL
4 11 (4.64%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.22%) Network Security
6 8 (3.38%) Skype
6 8 (3.38%) Softphone
6 8 (3.38%) Unified Communications
6 8 (3.38%) WebEx
7 4 (1.69%) LAN
8 3 (1.27%) HTTP
8 3 (1.27%) WLAN
9 2 (0.84%) Calico
9 2 (0.84%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.42%) DHCP
10 1 (0.42%) SNMP
10 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.81%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.97%) Oracle Database
3 21 (8.86%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.59%) MongoDB
4 18 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.53%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.69%) Siebel EIM
8 3 (1.27%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.27%) HBase
8 3 (1.27%) MySQL
9 2 (0.84%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.42%) Redis
10 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 73 (30.80%) Jenkins
2 52 (21.94%) Git
3 35 (14.77%) GitLab
4 21 (8.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 18 (7.59%) JIRA
6 15 (6.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 15 (6.33%) CA Release Automation
6 15 (6.33%) Liquibase
6 15 (6.33%) Mockito
7 10 (4.22%) Maven
8 8 (3.38%) Gradle
8 8 (3.38%) JUnit
9 7 (2.95%) Postman
10 6 (2.53%) SonarQube
11 5 (2.11%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.69%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.69%) Jaeger
12 4 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.84%) CircleCI
General
1 69 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.63%) Finance
3 39 (16.46%) Banking
4 28 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.33%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.27%) Back Office
8 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.27%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Aviation
9 2 (0.84%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (0.84%) Games
9 2 (0.84%) Police
9 2 (0.84%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (21.10%) Developer
2 43 (18.14%) Senior
3 33 (13.92%) Java Developer
4 29 (12.24%) Linux Engineer
5 27 (11.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (7.17%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.75%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (5.91%) Analyst
9 13 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.64%) Architect
10 11 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Lead
11 10 (4.22%) Support Analyst
11 10 (4.22%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Architect
12 9 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.38%) Messaging Support Engineer
13 8 (3.38%) Operations Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.81%) REST
2 22 (9.28%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (9.28%) Kafka
2 22 (9.28%) LDAP
3 20 (8.44%) RESTful
4 17 (7.17%) OAuth
5 16 (6.75%) Middleware
5 16 (6.75%) SOAP
6 15 (6.33%) ActiveMQ
6 15 (6.33%) JAX-RS
6 15 (6.33%) Spring Boot
7 14 (5.91%) SAML
8 11 (4.64%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.64%) Node.js
8 11 (4.64%) OpenID
8 11 (4.64%) Spring
9 10 (4.22%) FastAPI
10 8 (3.38%) XMPP
11 6 (2.53%) Spring Cloud
12 5 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.55%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.38%) Replication
6 7 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.11%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.69%) PKI
8 4 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.27%) Derivative
9 3 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.27%) NHS
9 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 71 (29.96%) Windows
2 59 (24.89%) Unix
3 42 (17.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (11.39%) Windows Server
5 19 (8.02%) Mac OS X
6 9 (3.80%) Solaris
7 4 (1.69%) HPUX
8 3 (1.27%) AIX
8 3 (1.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.84%) Android
9 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.84%) VMS
9 2 (0.84%) zOS
10 1 (0.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.42%) MVS
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.42%) SUSE
10 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.33%) DevOps
2 78 (32.91%) Agile
3 68 (28.69%) CI/CD
4 63 (26.58%) Microservices
5 55 (23.21%) Containerisation
6 53 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (12.24%) Software Engineering
8 27 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (10.55%) Migration
9 25 (10.55%) Task Automation
10 24 (10.13%) Change Management
10 24 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (10.13%) High Availability
10 24 (10.13%) Infrastructure Automation
10 24 (10.13%) TDD
11 23 (9.70%) Test Automation
12 22 (9.28%) BDD
13 21 (8.86%) Observability
14 19 (8.02%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (7.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 102 (43.04%) Python
2 67 (28.27%) Java
3 43 (18.14%) Shell Script
4 34 (14.35%) Bash
4 34 (14.35%) SQL
5 27 (11.39%) PowerShell
6 18 (7.59%) Go
7 14 (5.91%) Groovy
8 10 (4.22%) PHP
9 9 (3.80%) C++
10 7 (2.95%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.53%) Perl
12 5 (2.11%) Ruby
12 5 (2.11%) Rust
13 3 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.27%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.84%) C
15 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.17%) AWS Certification
3 17 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.17%) Degree
4 13 (5.49%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.11%) RHCE
9 3 (1.27%) CISSP
9 3 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.27%) MCSA
9 3 (1.27%) MCSE
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.42%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.42%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.69%) NIST
2 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.27%) Basel III
2 3 (1.27%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.27%) MiFID
2 3 (1.27%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.42%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) GLBA
3 1 (0.42%) NCSC
3 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.42%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (25.74%) Docker
2 44 (18.57%) Active Directory
3 27 (11.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.64%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (3.38%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 8 (3.38%) vSphere
6 7 (2.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 7 (2.95%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.27%) HDFS
9 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.84%) KVM
11 1 (0.42%) NFS
11 1 (0.42%) SRDF
11 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (26.16%) Ansible
1 62 (26.16%) Kubernetes
2 39 (16.46%) Terraform
3 35 (14.77%) Grafana
4 21 (8.86%) Prometheus
5 18 (7.59%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.64%) CA Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.64%) Data Guard
6 11 (4.64%) Puppet
7 10 (4.22%) CA Wily
7 10 (4.22%) vCenter Server
7 10 (4.22%) yum
8 8 (3.38%) Kibana
8 8 (3.38%) SCOM
8 8 (3.38%) Tivoli
8 8 (3.38%) vRealize
9 7 (2.95%) NetBackup
9 7 (2.95%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (2.95%) SELinux
10 6 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (29.96%) Oracle
2 54 (22.78%) Splunk
3 48 (20.25%) Microsoft
4 35 (14.77%) Red Hat
5 34 (14.35%) VMware
6 32 (13.50%) AppDynamics
7 25 (10.55%) IBM
8 18 (7.59%) Google
9 14 (5.91%) Cisco
10 11 (4.64%) Broadcom
11 10 (4.22%) CyberArk
12 8 (3.38%) F5
13 7 (2.95%) Citrix
13 7 (2.95%) MuleSoft
13 7 (2.95%) Veritas
14 6 (2.53%) Cloudera
15 5 (2.11%) Tenable
16 4 (1.69%) HP
16 4 (1.69%) Siebel
16 4 (1.69%) Zscaler