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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 4.27% 5.04% 11.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.42% 36.84% 41.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 19
10th Percentile £361 £323 £190
25th Percentile £367 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% -17.39% +17.95%
75th Percentile £392 £525 £625
90th Percentile £397 £533 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.07%

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 38 19 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 23.17% 13.67% 26.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 47
10th Percentile £157 - £170
25th Percentile £160 £160 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £250 £340
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -26.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £259 £475 £494
90th Percentile £353 £523 £625
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £19.78 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -69.81% +13.64% +223.53%

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
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 4 November 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
Banbury - 4 - - 2
Oxford -7 1 £400 -20.00% 14
Abingdon - 1 £363 - 5
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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Automotive
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Rocky
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (57.14%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) HIPAA
1 4 (57.14%) SOC 2
2 1 (14.29%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) QNX
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat