Linux Contracts in Northern Ireland

Linux
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 17 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.41% 6.47% 10.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.78% 30.23% 45.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 11
10th Percentile £386 - £350
25th Percentile £439 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -10.00% +15.81%
75th Percentile £514 £625 £519
90th Percentile £528 £650 £560
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £564
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.63 - -
Median hourly rate £31.25 - -
75th Percentile £31.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +25.00%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 23 43 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.54% 21.39% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 31
10th Percentile £177 £156 -
25th Percentile £210 £191 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £506 £413 £488
90th Percentile £545 £635 £500
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £14.15 £11.06
25th Percentile - £14.74 £11.53
Median hourly rate £12.25 £17.61 £13.62
Median % change year-on-year -30.44% +29.30% -2.71%
75th Percentile £31.88 £20.37 £16.27
90th Percentile - £20.90 £17.07
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.39
% change year-on-year -42.11% +69.72% +26.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Northern Ireland

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Northern Ireland

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Northern Ireland

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Northern Ireland

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -2 8 £494 +9.72% 5
Linux
UK

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Impala
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) NUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) FPGA
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Mechatronics
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (25.00%) System Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Scala
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft