Linux Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Linux Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £340 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 143 156
Rank change year-on-year +47 +13 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 30 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.40% 0.75% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 0.78% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 14
10th Percentile - £413 £383
25th Percentile - £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £472 £494 £484
90th Percentile £613 £589 £518
UK median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,025 2,550 3,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 95.26% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,774 2,303
10th Percentile £200 £223 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £634 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.95
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.38
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in Scotland

Linux Engineer
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 Linux Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +24 18 £550 -20.43%
Edinburgh +32 12 £340 -24.44% 1
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (60.00%) Python
3 14 (46.67%) Perl
4 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (43.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 12 (40.00%) Unix
5 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 11 (36.67%) Red Hat
6 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
7 9 (30.00%) OO
8 8 (26.67%) High Availability
9 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (20.00%) Customer Service
10 6 (20.00%) Solaris
10 6 (20.00%) SLA
10 6 (20.00%) RHCE
10 6 (20.00%) Clustering
10 6 (20.00%) KVM
10 6 (20.00%) Compliance Management
10 6 (20.00%) Observability
11 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
11 5 (16.67%) Windows
11 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 4 (13.33%) SAN
12 4 (13.33%) Veritas
12 4 (13.33%) Banking
12 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
12 4 (13.33%) DevOps
12 4 (13.33%) OpenShift

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) SAN
2 2 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) Flash
2 2 (6.67%) POSIX
3 1 (3.33%) Redfish
3 1 (3.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) NVMe
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (43.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (40.00%) Unix
4 6 (20.00%) Solaris
5 5 (16.67%) Windows
6 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
7 2 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (30.00%) OO
3 8 (26.67%) High Availability
4 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (20.00%) Compliance Management
5 6 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (20.00%) Observability
6 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.33%) DevOps
7 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
8 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (6.67%) Agile
9 2 (6.67%) Capacity Management
9 2 (6.67%) Data Deduplication
9 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
9 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (6.67%) Preventative Maintenance
9 2 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 14 (46.67%) Perl
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) KVM
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) GPFS
2 2 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Grafana
2 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (6.67%) NetBackup
4 2 (6.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.33%) Veritas
3 3 (10.00%) BMC
4 2 (6.67%) Brocade
4 2 (6.67%) EMC
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) NetApp
4 2 (6.67%) Sybase
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk