Linux Contracts in the South East

Linux
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 191 439 484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.88% 7.68% 8.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.65% 43.25% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 291 329
10th Percentile £396 £350 £312
25th Percentile £450 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.50% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £619 £638 £688
England median daily rate £538 £548 £599
% change year-on-year -1.83% -8.56% +1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 26
10th Percentile £38.98 £26.25 £50.63
25th Percentile £51.78 £48.13 £55.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £59.44 - £70.96
90th Percentile £61.08 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 585 1,015 1,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.00% 17.75% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 641 778
10th Percentile £198 £203 £194
25th Percentile £315 £350 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +7.56% -
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £650 £663 £640
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 66 70
10th Percentile £14.48 £15.94 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.77 £21.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +214.29%
75th Percentile £28.00 £69.92 £67.13
90th Percentile £58.33 £71.88 £73.88
England median hourly rate £20.00 £24.86 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% -41.52% +88.89%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Thames Valley -5 81 £500 -9.09% 401
Hampshire -7 72 £550 - 156
Berkshire +1 68 £500 -17.36% 278
Surrey -9 20 £475 +8.57% 113
Buckinghamshire -13 8 £525 +2.74% 64
Oxfordshire -6 5 £550 +22.22% 66
West Sussex -19 4 £538 +13.16% 56
Linux
England

Linux
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 15 (7.85%) Confluence
2 14 (7.33%) Apache
3 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.62%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.09%) CMS
5 4 (2.09%) Drupal
5 4 (2.09%) WordPress
6 3 (1.57%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.05%) IIS
7 2 (1.05%) JBoss
7 2 (1.05%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.80%) AWS
2 30 (15.71%) Azure
3 16 (8.38%) OpenShift
4 12 (6.28%) GitHub
5 9 (4.71%) IaaS
5 9 (4.71%) PaaS
6 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.19%) GCP
7 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.09%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.57%) npm
9 3 (1.57%) Serverless
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.18%) SAN
2 27 (14.14%) VPN
3 25 (13.09%) WAN
4 22 (11.52%) LAN
5 20 (10.47%) Firewall
6 19 (9.95%) DHCP
6 19 (9.95%) DNS
7 15 (7.85%) MPLS
8 14 (7.33%) ATM
8 14 (7.33%) Ethernet
8 14 (7.33%) Frame Relay
8 14 (7.33%) GPRS
8 14 (7.33%) GSM
8 14 (7.33%) LTE
8 14 (7.33%) SDH
8 14 (7.33%) UMTS
8 14 (7.33%) Wireshark
9 11 (5.76%) TCP/IP
10 9 (4.71%) SMTP
11 6 (3.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.81%) Big Data
2 10 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.19%) MySQL
4 8 (4.19%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.62%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.62%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.62%) Redis
6 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.05%) GIS
7 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.05%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 29 (15.18%) Git
2 27 (14.14%) JIRA
3 26 (13.61%) Jenkins
4 16 (8.38%) Eclipse
4 16 (8.38%) Robot Framework
5 15 (7.85%) GoogleTest
6 13 (6.81%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.19%) GitLab
8 7 (3.66%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.62%) Valgrind
11 4 (2.09%) MSI
12 3 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.57%) TestRail
13 2 (1.05%) CA Release Automation
13 2 (1.05%) Subversion
13 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.52%) Maven
14 1 (0.52%) Xcode
General
1 77 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.95%) Telecoms
3 17 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.38%) Finance
5 11 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.57%) Automotive
8 3 (1.57%) Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Legal
8 3 (1.57%) Military
9 2 (1.05%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (9.95%) Architect
1 19 (9.95%) Senior
1 19 (9.95%) Software Engineer
1 19 (9.95%) Support Engineer
2 17 (8.90%) Test Engineer
3 15 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.33%) FPGA Engineer
4 14 (7.33%) Linux Engineer
5 13 (6.81%) IP Engineer
6 12 (6.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 12 (6.28%) Administrator
7 11 (5.76%) Developer
8 10 (5.24%) Embedded Engineer
8 10 (5.24%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.33%) CSS
2 13 (6.81%) HTML
3 11 (5.76%) Middleware
4 10 (5.24%) Web Services
5 8 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.19%) JSON
5 8 (4.19%) Kafka
5 8 (4.19%) SOAP
6 7 (3.66%) REST
6 7 (3.66%) XML
6 7 (3.66%) YAML
7 6 (3.14%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.14%) LAMP
8 5 (2.62%) Ajax
8 5 (2.62%) Keycloak
8 5 (2.62%) Node.js
9 4 (2.09%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (2.09%) jQuery
10 3 (1.57%) React
10 3 (1.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.52%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.95%) PKI
2 19 (9.95%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (7.33%) FPGA
3 14 (7.33%) Verilog
4 11 (5.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (4.71%) Clustering
5 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.66%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.14%) SCADA
8 5 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.62%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.62%) Smartcard
9 4 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.09%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.57%) Device Driver
10 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.57%) HP Storage
10 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 86 (45.03%) Windows
2 41 (21.47%) Unix
3 36 (18.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (17.80%) Windows Server
5 19 (9.95%) Ubuntu
6 15 (7.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (7.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (5.76%) CentOS
9 6 (3.14%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (2.62%) Debian
11 4 (2.09%) Solaris
12 3 (1.57%) Android
12 3 (1.57%) VMS
12 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.52%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (28.27%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (27.23%) Agile
3 45 (23.56%) DevOps
4 37 (19.37%) Software Engineering
5 28 (14.66%) Scrum
5 28 (14.66%) Validation
6 24 (12.57%) CI/CD
6 24 (12.57%) ITIL
7 22 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (11.52%) Migration
8 20 (10.47%) Test Strategy
9 17 (8.90%) Project Management
10 16 (8.38%) High Availability
11 14 (7.33%) Containerisation
11 14 (7.33%) Data Collection
11 14 (7.33%) Fault Management
11 14 (7.33%) FPGA Design
11 14 (7.33%) Regression Testing
11 14 (7.33%) Test Automation
12 13 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 61 (31.94%) Python
2 34 (17.80%) PowerShell
3 32 (16.75%) Java
4 23 (12.04%) Shell Script
5 20 (10.47%) C++
6 19 (9.95%) SQL
7 18 (9.42%) Bash
8 17 (8.90%) JavaScript
9 14 (7.33%) SystemVerilog
9 14 (7.33%) Tcl
10 12 (6.28%) Perl
10 12 (6.28%) PHP
11 7 (3.66%) PL/SQL
12 6 (3.14%) C#
13 4 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (1.57%) Scala
15 2 (1.05%) C
15 2 (1.05%) Embedded C
15 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
15 2 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.94%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.28%) DV Cleared
4 21 (10.99%) Degree
5 17 (8.90%) CCNP
5 17 (8.90%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (7.33%) ISEB
6 14 (7.33%) ISTQB
6 14 (7.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.62%) CISSP
8 5 (2.62%) GCIH
9 4 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.57%) CFCE
11 2 (1.05%) CASP
11 2 (1.05%) GCFA
11 2 (1.05%) GCIA
11 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) GDPR
1 5 (2.62%) NIST
2 3 (1.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.05%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (13.61%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.47%) Docker
4 13 (6.81%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (6.81%) vSphere
5 10 (5.24%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.19%) BitLocker
6 8 (4.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (4.19%) Terminal Services
7 6 (3.14%) Firmware
8 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.57%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.52%) GPFS
11 1 (0.52%) NFS
11 1 (0.52%) Postfix
11 1 (0.52%) Samba
11 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (23.04%) Ansible
2 32 (16.75%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.52%) Terraform
4 10 (5.24%) NetBackup
4 10 (5.24%) Puppet
5 9 (4.71%) vCenter Server
6 8 (4.19%) Nagios
6 8 (4.19%) vMotion
7 6 (3.14%) Grafana
7 6 (3.14%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.62%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (2.62%) Packer
9 4 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.09%) WMI
10 3 (1.57%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.57%) SCCM
10 3 (1.57%) yum
11 2 (1.05%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 51 (26.70%) Microsoft
2 45 (23.56%) VMware
3 40 (20.94%) Red Hat
4 21 (10.99%) Google
4 21 (10.99%) HP
5 20 (10.47%) Cisco
6 14 (7.33%) Juniper
6 14 (7.33%) Xilinx
7 13 (6.81%) Veritas
8 12 (6.28%) Splunk
9 11 (5.76%) 3PAR
9 11 (5.76%) Atlassian
10 10 (5.24%) Dell
10 10 (5.24%) MuleSoft
10 10 (5.24%) Symantec
11 9 (4.71%) Citrix
11 9 (4.71%) Oracle
12 7 (3.66%) ArcSight
12 7 (3.66%) Intel
12 7 (3.66%) NetApp