Linux Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Linux
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 15 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 4.96% 2.52% 4.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.17% 11.76% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile £71 - £435
25th Percentile £231 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% -16.04%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £509
90th Percentile £500 £755 £723
East Midlands median daily rate £455 £529 £450
% change year-on-year -14.04% +17.57% -10.06%

All Operating Systems
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 24 34 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 17.02% 21.38% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 24
10th Percentile £163 £100 £153
25th Percentile £196 £156 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £210 £375
Median % change year-on-year +102.38% -44.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £488 £431 £445
90th Percentile £500 £475 £563
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 7
10th Percentile - - £11.48
25th Percentile - £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate - £14.27 £16.70
Median % change year-on-year - -14.55% +4.38%
75th Percentile - - £23.24
90th Percentile - £14.68 £26.48
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 Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Nottinghamshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Nottinghamshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Nottinghamshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Nottinghamshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Nottinghamshire 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
Nottingham +8 6 £438 -2.78% 17
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) POSIX
2 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Server Building
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) MISRA
1 2 (28.57%) MISRA C
1 2 (28.57%) QA
1 2 (28.57%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (14.29%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) QNX