Linux Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Linux
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 11 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 5.56% 7.69% 7.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.45% 46.67% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £374 £481 £204
25th Percentile £391 £503 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £591
90th Percentile £568 £619 £623
South East median daily rate £485 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -7.62% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £21.40 - £46.63
25th Percentile £23.02 - £47.19
Median hourly rate £26.44 - £48.75
75th Percentile £27.52 - £49.69
90th Percentile £27.74 - £49.88
South East median hourly rate £18.51 £62.50 £65.75
% change year-on-year -70.38% -4.94% +9.58%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 49 15 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 24.75% 16.48% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 41
10th Percentile £190 £249 £128
25th Percentile £230 £250 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £475 £250
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% +90.00% -37.89%
75th Percentile £388 £547 £456
90th Percentile £438 £575 £575
South East median daily rate £463 £465 £438
% change year-on-year -0.54% +6.29% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £19.11 - -
25th Percentile £19.74 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.10%
75th Percentile £25.00 - £49.06
90th Percentile £27.23 - £49.63
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year -64.00% +5.85% +88.14%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Linux job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Linux

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. 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
Oxford -1 4 £400 -25.58% 6
Abingdon -3 1 - - 3
Banbury - 1 - - 1
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) SSH
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Electronics
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (9.09%) Control Software Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) GStreamer
1 1 (9.09%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Onboarding
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Device Driver
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Unix
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) SIEM
2 7 (63.64%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (54.55%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (45.45%) Information Security
4 5 (45.45%) Runbook
4 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
5 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
5 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (27.27%) Change Control
6 3 (27.27%) ITSM
7 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
8 1 (9.09%) Analytics
8 1 (9.09%) Application Security
8 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 1 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
8 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) C
2 1 (9.09%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (54.55%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) BeyondTrust
2 4 (36.36%) CyberArk
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) VMware