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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 3.72% 6.36% 11.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 43.75% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 19
10th Percentile £358 £359 £190
25th Percentile £359 £466 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £394 £534 £625
90th Percentile £398 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -7.09% -2.62% -4.55%

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 42 16 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 22.34% 14.55% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 48
10th Percentile £190 £160 £170
25th Percentile £198 £244 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £373 £513 £556
90th Percentile £419 £538 £625
South East median daily rate £433 £435 £400
% change year-on-year -0.57% +8.75% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £19.54 - -
25th Percentile £20.02 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.94%
75th Percentile £86.32 - £18.75
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.69% +7.05% +197.30%

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 19 December 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 - -
Oxford -6 2 £388 -22.50% 10
Abingdon 0 1 £363 -23.68% 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 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
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%) Information Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
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 Manager
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%) Rocky
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
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%) Application Security
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Management
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%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
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%) Red Hat