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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 11 26 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.47% 11.35% 6.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.50% 37.14% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 15
10th Percentile £381 £172 £141
25th Percentile £419 £198 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £185
Median % change year-on-year - +143.24% -44.15%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £706
90th Percentile £540 £575 £838
South East median daily rate £534 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +2.69% -0.95% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £46.63 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £48.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £49.69 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £49.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £65.84 £50.77
% change year-on-year -5.08% +29.69% -5.54%

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 40 70 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.26% 30.57% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 46
10th Percentile £128 £180 £143
25th Percentile £142 £203 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £330 £190
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +73.68% -33.91%
75th Percentile £391 £450 £278
90th Percentile £475 £572 £569
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £22.05 - £17.90
25th Percentile £31.13 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £18.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.72% -9.60% -39.27%
75th Percentile £49.38 - £41.56
90th Percentile £49.75 £36.93 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -15.22% +219.44% -16.28%

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 21 June 2024.

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 21 June 2024. 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 -10 4 £500 +8.11% 8
Abingdon -1 1 - -
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 (9.09%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) InfiniBand
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (18.18%) Grid Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Solaris
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 1 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Assurance
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Information Management
3 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Groovy
1 1 (9.09%) Perl
1 1 (9.09%) PHP
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) HNC
2 1 (9.09%) RHCE
2 1 (9.09%) RHCSA
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) NFS
1 2 (18.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) CFEngine
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft