LFCS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for LFCS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LFCS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.045% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £610 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

LFCS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 491 395 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.96% 24.31% 25.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 237 289
10th Percentile £263 £181 £177
25th Percentile £363 £308 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £444 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +1.37% -6.01%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £575
90th Percentile £716 £580 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 43 34
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.84 £12.36
25th Percentile £42.03 £19.23 £14.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £20.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% +11.11% -66.48%
75th Percentile £60.91 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £68.75 £25.23 -
UK median hourly rate £48.77 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +93.90% -41.51% -21.82%

LFCS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LFCS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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
Glasgow - 1 - - 1
LFCS
UK

LFCS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware