Linux Contracts in Oxford

Linux
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 11 11 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 8.33% 4.81% 14.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 25.00% 41.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 10
10th Percentile £505 £238 £169
25th Percentile £513 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +28.29%
75th Percentile £619 - £563
90th Percentile £645 £560 £578
Oxfordshire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +150.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 - -
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £21.90 £48.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year -55.08% -0.51% +3.16%

All Operating Systems
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 20 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 14.58% 19.23% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 32
10th Percentile £196 £154 £188
25th Percentile £245 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% +136.84%
75th Percentile £556 £500 £528
90th Percentile £619 £563 £575
Oxfordshire median daily rate £275 £300 £400
% change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +110.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £16.00 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% -11.50% -9.60%
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £21.90 £17.50 £18.08
% change year-on-year +25.14% -3.21% -9.60%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Oxford

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Oxford

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Oxford

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Unix DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Robotics
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Logistics
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Server Management
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat