Linux Contracts in Oxfordshire

Linux
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 16 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.66% 5.29% 10.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.58% 26.67% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 11
10th Percentile £478 £296 £170
25th Percentile £500 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +150.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £628 £550 -
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £46.63 -
25th Percentile £20.85 £47.19 £48.50
Median hourly rate £21.90 £48.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.08% -0.51% +3.16%
75th Percentile £22.95 £49.69 £49.50
90th Percentile - £49.88 -
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -4.62% +22.91%

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 19 45 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 17.92% 19.82% 31.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 48
10th Percentile £232 £128 £193
25th Percentile £250 £143 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +110.53%
75th Percentile £488 £456 £506
90th Percentile £575 £538 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £16.10 -
25th Percentile £20.85 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £17.50 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +25.14% -3.21% -9.60%
75th Percentile £22.95 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - £49.50 £36.93
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Oxfordshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Oxfordshire

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 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
Oxford 0 4 £550 +10.00% 14
Abingdon +4 1 £475 - 5
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Unix DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Robotics
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Unix
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) HPUX
3 2 (33.33%) Solaris
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Logistics
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) HP