Linux Contracts in South London

Linux
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 27 39 10
Rank change year-on-year +12 -29 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 3 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.32% 1.24% 15.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.63% 11.11% 60.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 57
10th Percentile £447 £483 £483
25th Percentile £448 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £499 £613 £725
90th Percentile £500 £650 -
London median daily rate £588 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +3.98% -9.60% +2.04%

All Operating Systems
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 27 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 14.59% 11.16% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 87
10th Percentile £231 £185 £148
25th Percentile £313 £197 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £502 £554 £638
90th Percentile £613 £567 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £38.01 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -18.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £44.95 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 £51.95
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in South London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in South London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in South London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Croydon +9 4 £473 -8.47% 1
Bromley -4 3 - - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - - 2
Linux
London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (37.50%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Camunda
3 1 (12.50%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) GIS
2 2 (25.00%) KDB
2 2 (25.00%) Kdb+
2 2 (25.00%) Redis
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) KDB Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) Keycloak
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Equities
2 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) GitOps
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Istio
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Safety
3 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Rancher
3 1 (12.50%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) Siemens
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk