Linux Contracts in the North West

Linux
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 35 59 23
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 98 79 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.98% 2.87% 6.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.22% 22.25% 39.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 60 149
10th Percentile £333 £313 £320
25th Percentile £375 £350 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -15.09% -7.83%
75th Percentile £606 £582 £638
90th Percentile £675 £651 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 17
10th Percentile £71.76 - £25.75
25th Percentile £74.10 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £80.59 £48.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.89% +20.00% -10.99%
75th Percentile £84.48 £60.75 £49.40
90th Percentile £85.26 £72.79 £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the North West

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the North West

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the North West

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the North West

Linux
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +5 43 £500 +17.65% 123
Cheshire +7 22 £393 -28.55% 35
Merseyside - 13 £600 - 11
Lancashire +7 10 £525 - 53
Cumbria +8 9 £275 -47.92% 1
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.10%) JBoss
2 5 (5.10%) Mattermost
2 5 (5.10%) Skype for Business
2 5 (5.10%) Tomcat
3 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.06%) Apache
4 3 (3.06%) nginx
5 2 (2.04%) Confluence
5 2 (2.04%) IIS
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (2.04%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.04%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.02%) Documentum
6 1 (1.02%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Kondor
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.69%) AWS
2 26 (26.53%) Azure
3 11 (11.22%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (10.20%) GCP
5 7 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (6.12%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
9 3 (3.06%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.06%) Serverless
9 3 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.04%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (2.04%) npm
10 2 (2.04%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) SAN
2 8 (8.16%) DNS
3 7 (7.14%) DHCP
3 7 (7.14%) Firewall
4 6 (6.12%) LAN
5 5 (5.10%) NAS
5 5 (5.10%) Skype
5 5 (5.10%) Softphone
5 5 (5.10%) Unified Communications
5 5 (5.10%) WebEx
6 4 (4.08%) Network Security
6 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.08%) WAN
6 4 (4.08%) Wireless
7 3 (3.06%) Internet
7 3 (3.06%) iSCSI
7 3 (3.06%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.06%) WLAN
8 2 (2.04%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.10%) RDBMS
4 5 (5.10%) Siebel EIM
5 4 (4.08%) MySQL
6 2 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.02%) Apache Accumulo
7 1 (1.02%) Big Data
7 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.02%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.29%) Git
2 14 (14.29%) GitLab
3 7 (7.14%) JIRA
4 6 (6.12%) Jasmine
5 5 (5.10%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (5.10%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (5.10%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.10%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.08%) Mocha
6 4 (4.08%) Subversion
7 3 (3.06%) Eclipse
7 3 (3.06%) Grunt
7 3 (3.06%) gulp
7 3 (3.06%) Maven
8 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.04%) JUnit
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Finance
3 13 (13.27%) Banking
3 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Law
6 4 (4.08%) Legal
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (20.41%) Developer
2 17 (17.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (13.27%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Senior
6 9 (9.18%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Architect
8 5 (5.10%) Messaging Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Messaging Support
8 5 (5.10%) Messaging Support Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Operations Support Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Operations Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) SOAP
2 8 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.12%) Node.js
5 5 (5.10%) JMS
5 5 (5.10%) LDAP
5 5 (5.10%) REST
5 5 (5.10%) Web Services
5 5 (5.10%) XMPP
6 4 (4.08%) cloud-init
6 4 (4.08%) CSS
6 4 (4.08%) HTML
6 4 (4.08%) HTML5
6 4 (4.08%) jQuery
6 4 (4.08%) Mustache
6 4 (4.08%) Sass
7 3 (3.06%) .NET
7 3 (3.06%) OAuth
7 3 (3.06%) RESTful
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.10%) Derivative
3 5 (5.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.06%) Clustering
4 3 (3.06%) IVR
4 3 (3.06%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.02%) CMDB
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.02%) PKI
6 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.02%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (34.69%) Windows
2 28 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (22.45%) Unix
4 17 (17.35%) Windows Server
5 9 (9.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (8.16%) CentOS
7 7 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (6.12%) Solaris
9 5 (5.10%) Android
10 4 (4.08%) HPUX
10 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (3.06%) Mac OS X
11 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (2.04%) AIX
12 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
12 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
12 2 (2.04%) VMS
13 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.59%) CI/CD
2 26 (26.53%) DevOps
3 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (15.31%) Agile
5 15 (15.31%) ITIL
6 13 (13.27%) Migration
7 12 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (11.22%) High Availability
8 11 (11.22%) Microservices
8 11 (11.22%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (10.20%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (7.14%) Change Management
10 7 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (7.14%) Containerisation
10 7 (7.14%) Problem Management
10 7 (7.14%) SDLC
11 6 (6.12%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.76%) Python
2 27 (27.55%) SQL
3 16 (16.33%) Java
4 12 (12.24%) Bash
5 9 (9.18%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.18%) Perl
5 9 (9.18%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 7 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.10%) C++
7 5 (5.10%) Go
7 5 (5.10%) Ruby
8 1 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (4.08%) MCSE
5 4 (4.08%) RHCE
5 4 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.02%) Degree
7 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) Basel III
1 5 (5.10%) HL7
1 5 (5.10%) MiFID
2 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.08%) SLA
2 4 (4.08%) WCAG
3 2 (2.04%) NIST
3 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (27.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.35%) Docker
3 9 (9.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (2.04%) KVM
7 2 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (23.47%) Terraform
2 22 (22.45%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.22%) Ansible
4 10 (10.20%) Progress Chef
5 8 (8.16%) Kibana
6 7 (7.14%) Grafana
6 7 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.14%) vCenter Server
7 6 (6.12%) Puppet
8 5 (5.10%) Packer
8 5 (5.10%) SCOM
8 5 (5.10%) ZABBIX
9 4 (4.08%) WSUS
10 3 (3.06%) Backup Exec
10 3 (3.06%) Istio
10 3 (3.06%) SELinux
11 2 (2.04%) Graylog
11 2 (2.04%) Nagios
12 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
12 1 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 21 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 18 (18.37%) Oracle
3 17 (17.35%) Microsoft
3 17 (17.35%) Splunk
4 16 (16.33%) VMware
5 11 (11.22%) Cisco
6 8 (8.16%) AppDynamics
7 7 (7.14%) IBM
8 5 (5.10%) Siebel
8 5 (5.10%) Sybase
9 4 (4.08%) Citrix
9 4 (4.08%) Cloudera
10 3 (3.06%) Apple
10 3 (3.06%) Symantec
10 3 (3.06%) Veeam
11 2 (2.04%) Dell
11 2 (2.04%) HP
11 2 (2.04%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.04%) Sun
12 1 (1.02%) Unisys