Linux Contracts in Northamptonshire

Linux
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 21 12 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 13 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.42% 6.63% 1.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.45% 46.43% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £436 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.83% - -
75th Percentile £500 £503 -
90th Percentile £522 £513 -
East Midlands median daily rate £455 £529 £450
% change year-on-year -14.04% +17.57% -10.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate - - £12.50

All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 11 28 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 7.53% 14.29% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 15
10th Percentile £335 £201 £141
25th Percentile £385 £356 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £445 £188
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% +136.70% -46.29%
75th Percentile £497 £490 £238
90th Percentile £529 £507 £523
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £12.89
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.32
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £18.24
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.19%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £19.38
90th Percentile - - £19.65
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Northamptonshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -11 5 £467 +29.99% 3
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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