Oracle Linux Contracts in Scotland

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Oracle Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Linux over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Oracle Linux 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.60% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.22%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £545
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% +50.29%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

Oracle 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 331 326 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.38% 17.59% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 227 216
10th Percentile £181 £167 £158
25th Percentile £377 £240 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £400 £473
Median % change year-on-year +17.75% -15.34% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £550
90th Percentile £575 £690 £661
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 22
10th Percentile £24.30 £17.44 £14.82
25th Percentile - £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.29 £33.46
Median % change year-on-year +23.98% -39.37% +91.17%
75th Percentile - £40.84 £59.03
90th Percentile - £62.50 £62.31
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.55% -35.29% +84.56%

Oracle Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Oracle Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Linux in Scotland

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Oracle Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux
DemandTrendContract 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 Oracle Linux within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 2 £560 - 1
Oracle Linux
UK

Oracle Linux
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat