Embedded Linux
UK > Scotland
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Embedded Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Embedded Linux over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 3 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 121 | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing Embedded Linux | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland | - | 0.36% | - |
| As % of the Operating Systems category | - | 2.23% | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | - |
| UK median daily rate | £500 | £450 | £450 |
| % change year-on-year | +11.11% | - | +9.76% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £60.50 | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £55.00 | £60.50 | £52.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -9.09% | +16.35% | +1.46% |
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Embedded 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 Scotland.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills | 344 | 358 | 534 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland | 21.13% | 16.26% | 18.82% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 177 | 234 | 374 |
| 10th Percentile | £190 | £183 | £160 |
| 25th Percentile | £406 | £324 | £260 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £465 | £500 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -7.10% | +5.26% | +5.56% |
| 75th Percentile | £550 | £622 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £581 | £750 | £729 |
| UK median daily rate | £475 | £465 | £504 |
| % change year-on-year | +2.15% | -7.74% | +0.80% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 13 | 15 | 14 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.33 | £17.23 | £17.72 |
| 25th Percentile | £20.94 | £18.27 | £18.49 |
| Median hourly rate | £22.00 | £52.50 | £52.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -58.10% | - | +162.50% |
| 75th Percentile | £23.50 | £60.75 | £58.96 |
| 90th Percentile | £24.43 | £62.50 | £64.76 |
| UK median hourly rate | £24.09 | £22.00 | £39.30 |
| % change year-on-year | +9.50% | -44.02% | +74.67% |
Embedded Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland
Job postings citing Embedded Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.
Embedded Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Embedded Linux in Scotland.