Linux Engineer Contracts in the South East

Linux Engineer
England > South East

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the South East is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 193 217
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 32 22 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.39% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.41% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 36
10th Percentile £423 £472 -
25th Percentile £425 £509 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +17.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £540 £588 £528
90th Percentile £566 £594 £588
England median daily rate £525 £575 £548
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.02% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £17.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +73.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,301 5,353 7,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.53% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,704 5,019
10th Percentile £243 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £387 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.33 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £66.74 £66.21 £47.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hampshire -4 10 £525 -8.70% 3
Thames Valley +4 8 £540 +3.85% 3
West Sussex - 7 £475 - 3
Buckinghamshire +25 5 £476 -8.41% 3
Surrey +17 4 £450 - 1
Berkshire -11 3 £650 +52.94%
East Sussex - 3 £538 -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 13 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 South East region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (53.13%) Python
2 17 (53.13%) Ansible
3 16 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 16 (50.00%) VMware
3 16 (50.00%) Bash
4 15 (46.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
5 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
6 12 (37.50%) Git
7 10 (31.25%) vSphere
7 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
7 10 (31.25%) Agile
7 10 (31.25%) Unix
7 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
8 9 (28.13%) Runbook
8 9 (28.13%) Oracle
8 9 (28.13%) Scrum
8 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
9 8 (25.00%) Windows
9 8 (25.00%) Project Delivery
9 8 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (21.88%) SELinux
10 7 (21.88%) Solaris
10 7 (21.88%) Firewall
10 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
10 7 (21.88%) Degree
10 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Datadog
4 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) DNS
3 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.25%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (3.13%) DHCP
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
4 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
4 3 (9.38%) JIRA
5 2 (6.25%) Subversion
6 1 (3.13%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) RESTful
1 3 (9.38%) SOAP
1 3 (9.38%) XML
2 2 (6.25%) YAML
3 1 (3.13%) Anaconda
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.38%) Smart Meter
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (46.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (31.25%) Unix
4 8 (25.00%) Windows
5 7 (21.88%) Solaris
6 6 (18.75%) VMS
7 4 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (9.38%) CentOS
8 3 (9.38%) Debian
9 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Agile
1 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
2 9 (28.13%) Runbook
2 9 (28.13%) Scrum
3 8 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) High Availability
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (15.63%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (15.63%) Remediation Plan
6 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.50%) Build Automation
7 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Security Hardening
8 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (9.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 16 (50.00%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) C++
3 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.50%) Perl
5 3 (9.38%) C#
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) C
6 1 (3.13%) Java
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) vSphere
2 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (9.38%) VirtualBox
4 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.25%) Ceph
5 2 (6.25%) Docker
5 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.13%) Firmware
6 1 (3.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Ansible
2 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 7 (21.88%) SELinux
4 6 (18.75%) Packer
4 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (18.75%) vRealize
5 4 (12.50%) yum
6 3 (9.38%) Terraform
7 2 (6.25%) Pacemaker
7 2 (6.25%) Podman
7 2 (6.25%) Rancher
7 2 (6.25%) SCOM
7 2 (6.25%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 16 (50.00%) VMware
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle
3 6 (18.75%) Veritas
4 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
5 4 (12.50%) Arqiva
6 3 (9.38%) Dell
7 2 (6.25%) HP
7 2 (6.25%) IBM
7 2 (6.25%) Sun
8 1 (3.13%) Symantec