Linux Contract Job Trends in Salisbury

Linux
Wiltshire > Salisbury

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Salisbury requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Salisbury 2.17% 1.89% 5.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.33% 5.26% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -26.83%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £522
90th Percentile - - £556
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -8.70%

All Operating Systems
Salisbury

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 Salisbury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12 19 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury 26.09% 35.85% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 21
10th Percentile £435 £203 £225
25th Percentile £563 £213 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £220 £450
Median % change year-on-year +188.64% -51.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £670 £369 £538
90th Percentile - £419 £675
Wiltshire median daily rate £570 £538 £465
% change year-on-year +6.05% +15.59% -11.43%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Salisbury

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Salisbury

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Salisbury

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Salisbury

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salisbury 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft