Linux Contracts in Northampton

Linux
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 20 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.07% 9.45% 1.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.56% 50.00% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £436 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £359 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.99% - -
75th Percentile £500 £467 -
90th Percentile £522 £503 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £467 £363 -
% change year-on-year +28.83% - -

All Operating Systems
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9 24 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 7.32% 18.90% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 9
10th Percentile £324 £337 £152
25th Percentile £379 £356 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £445 £188
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% +136.70% -47.78%
75th Percentile £506 £490 £238
90th Percentile £530 £503 £545
Northamptonshire median daily rate £457 £445 £188
% change year-on-year +2.58% +136.70% -46.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.55
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £16.90
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.40%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.57
90th Percentile - - £19.38
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.50 - £18.24
% change year-on-year - - -15.19%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Northampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Northampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Northampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Northampton.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (40.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Rocky
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft