Linux Contracts in Somerset

Linux
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 21 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.88% 2.96% 9.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.36% 18.18% 51.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £613 £463 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +5.56% +4.90%
75th Percentile £676 £488 £609
90th Percentile £700 - £649
South West median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.38
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £60.13
Median % change year-on-year - -20.17% +9.32%
75th Percentile - - £65.79
90th Percentile - - £69.02
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +0.77%

All Operating Systems
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 11 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 7.91% 16.26% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 22
10th Percentile - £121 £171
25th Percentile £140 £127 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £175 £425
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -58.82% +0.41%
75th Percentile £638 £238 £450
90th Percentile £653 £296 £634
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 6
10th Percentile - £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £26.97
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile - - £63.03
90th Percentile - £46.40 £67.59
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Somerset

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Street - 3 £625 - 3
Linux
South West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat