Linux Contracts in the North of England

Linux
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 203 349 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.24% 5.97% 5.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.88% 37.98% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 261 288
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £412 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -0.47% +17.22%
75th Percentile £582 £650 £630
90th Percentile £635 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
10th Percentile - £25.75 £21.11
25th Percentile £21.25 £28.36 £28.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £39.60 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -6.82% -3.41%
75th Percentile £55.88 £49.08 £47.36
90th Percentile £65.00 £52.13 £51.16
England median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +25.65%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 728 919 1,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.22% 15.71% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 660 917
10th Percentile £165 £167 £140
25th Percentile £275 £247 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £675 £633
England median daily rate £463 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 60 81
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.44
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.10 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -43.06% +59.30% +3.76%
75th Percentile £20.00 £43.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £25.25 £49.52 £42.20
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +16 111 £500 -4.76% 53
North West -42 79 £450 -15.09% 91
North East -3 13 £550 -18.52% 11
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 9 (4.43%) nginx
2 8 (3.94%) Apache
3 7 (3.45%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.96%) IIS
5 4 (1.97%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.48%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.99%) Confluence
7 2 (0.99%) Traefik
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.49%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.54%) AWS
2 52 (25.62%) Azure
3 22 (10.84%) GitHub
4 21 (10.34%) GCP
5 12 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (1.97%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.97%) IaaS
10 4 (1.97%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.97%) PaaS
10 4 (1.97%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.97%) Route 53
11 3 (1.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.88%) LAN
1 16 (7.88%) WAN
2 15 (7.39%) VLAN
3 13 (6.40%) Firewall
3 13 (6.40%) Wireless
4 11 (5.42%) VPN
5 8 (3.94%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.45%) DSL
6 7 (3.45%) Ethernet
6 7 (3.45%) OSPF
6 7 (3.45%) Wireless Security
7 6 (2.96%) H.323
7 6 (2.96%) HTTP
7 6 (2.96%) SAN
7 6 (2.96%) SSL
8 4 (1.97%) 5G
8 4 (1.97%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (1.97%) LTE
9 3 (1.48%) AMQP
9 3 (1.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.37%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.93%) MySQL
2 10 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.45%) Ingres
4 6 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.46%) Big Data
6 4 (1.97%) Power BI
7 3 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.48%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.48%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.99%) Redis
8 2 (0.99%) Tableau
9 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.49%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 41 (20.20%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.33%) GitLab
3 13 (6.40%) JIRA
4 7 (3.45%) Burp Suite
5 6 (2.96%) Git
6 5 (2.46%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.97%) AppScan
7 4 (1.97%) Hudson
8 2 (0.99%) Mockito
8 2 (0.99%) Selenium
8 2 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.49%) Gradle
9 1 (0.49%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.49%) Maven
9 1 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 65 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.27%) Finance
4 20 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.94%) Legal
6 7 (3.45%) Banking
7 6 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Electronics
10 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.49%) German Language
10 1 (0.49%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (9.85%) Linux Engineer
3 16 (7.88%) Storage Manager
4 13 (6.40%) DBA
4 13 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (6.40%) Windows Engineer
5 11 (5.42%) Lead
6 10 (4.93%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (3.94%) Network Engineer
8 7 (3.45%) Architect
8 7 (3.45%) Data Protection Engineer
8 7 (3.45%) Site Engineer
8 7 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (2.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (2.96%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (2.46%) Build Engineer
10 5 (2.46%) Ingres DBA
10 5 (2.46%) Penetration Tester
10 5 (2.46%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.87%) YAML
2 15 (7.39%) Kafka
3 10 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.43%) JSON
5 8 (3.94%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (3.45%) Middleware
7 5 (2.46%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (2.46%) Web Services
7 5 (2.46%) XML
7 5 (2.46%) XSLT
8 4 (1.97%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.97%) Spring
9 3 (1.48%) Apache Beam
10 2 (0.99%) cloud-init
10 2 (0.99%) JAX-RS
10 2 (0.99%) pytest
10 2 (0.99%) Redfish
10 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
11 1 (0.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.84%) Data Centre
1 22 (10.84%) Replication
2 17 (8.37%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.94%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.94%) Virtual Team
4 6 (2.96%) IVR
4 6 (2.96%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.96%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.46%) PKI
6 4 (1.97%) Clustering
6 4 (1.97%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.48%) EPoS
7 3 (1.48%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (44.83%) Windows
2 39 (19.21%) Unix
3 23 (11.33%) zOS
4 19 (9.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (7.88%) Windows Server
6 11 (5.42%) CentOS
7 5 (2.46%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.46%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.97%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.97%) Debian
8 4 (1.97%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (1.97%) VMS
9 3 (1.48%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.99%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.99%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.49%) Android
11 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.49%) Fedora
11 1 (0.49%) Rocky
11 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.14%) DevOps
2 42 (20.69%) Agile
2 42 (20.69%) CI/CD
3 29 (14.29%) Change Management
4 28 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (10.34%) Migration
6 20 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (9.36%) Problem Management
8 18 (8.87%) Project Management
8 18 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (8.87%) Storage Management
9 17 (8.37%) Data Protection
10 15 (7.39%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (7.39%) Service Delivery
11 14 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
11 14 (6.90%) Penetration Testing
11 14 (6.90%) Software Testing
12 13 (6.40%) Cost Management
13 12 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.54%) Python
2 24 (11.82%) Bash
3 18 (8.87%) JCL
4 15 (7.39%) PowerShell
4 15 (7.39%) REXX
5 14 (6.90%) Java
6 13 (6.40%) Ruby
7 12 (5.91%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.43%) C++
9 8 (3.94%) Go
9 8 (3.94%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.96%) SQL
11 4 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.48%) C
12 3 (1.48%) Groovy
12 3 (1.48%) Scala
13 1 (0.49%) Fortran
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.43%) CCNA
3 9 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (4.43%) Degree
3 9 (4.43%) OSCP
4 6 (2.96%) CEH
4 6 (2.96%) CREST Certified
4 6 (2.96%) GIAC
4 6 (2.96%) GPEN
5 5 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.97%) CISM
6 4 (1.97%) CISSP
6 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.94%) NIST
2 6 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.97%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.97%) QA
4 3 (1.48%) NCSC
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (11.82%) Docker
2 18 (8.87%) NFS
2 18 (8.87%) Time Sharing Option
3 14 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.91%) Active Directory
5 8 (3.94%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (32.02%) Ansible
2 40 (19.70%) Terraform
3 34 (16.75%) Puppet
4 24 (11.82%) Kubernetes
5 21 (10.34%) Grafana
6 19 (9.36%) Prometheus
7 18 (8.87%) NetBackup
7 18 (8.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 12 (5.91%) Progress Chef
9 7 (3.45%) CFEngine
9 7 (3.45%) Packer
9 7 (3.45%) PowerBroker
10 5 (2.46%) Graylog
11 4 (1.97%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.97%) Istio
11 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.97%) Nessus
11 4 (1.97%) Rancher
11 4 (1.97%) WebInspect
11 4 (1.97%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (12.81%) IBM
2 24 (11.82%) VMware
3 20 (9.85%) Dell
3 20 (9.85%) Microsoft
4 19 (9.36%) Brocade
4 19 (9.36%) Oracle
5 18 (8.87%) Broadcom
5 18 (8.87%) CA
6 16 (7.88%) Veritas
7 11 (5.42%) Red Hat
8 10 (4.93%) Splunk
9 7 (3.45%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.96%) Avaya
10 6 (2.96%) PagerDuty
10 6 (2.96%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.96%) Solace
11 5 (2.46%) Verint
12 4 (1.97%) Checkmarx
12 4 (1.97%) Sophos
12 4 (1.97%) Veracode