Linux Contracts in South London

Linux
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 9 23
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 59 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.87% 14.97% 8.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.33% 59.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 55 28
10th Percentile £487 £480 £419
25th Percentile £505 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% -5.00% +41.18%
75th Percentile £544 £725 £700
90th Percentile £600 - -
London median daily rate £557 £625 £606
% change year-on-year -10.92% +3.09% +15.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £41.76
25th Percentile - - £42.41
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.54
90th Percentile - - £48.16
London median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £49.29
% change year-on-year -16.67% +52.16% -1.42%

All Operating Systems
South London

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 30 100 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 12.30% 25.38% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 87 56
10th Percentile £187 £148 £166
25th Percentile £200 £287 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +13.43%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £567 £725 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £37.45 - £42.63
25th Percentile £38.01 - £44.32
Median hourly rate £41.00 £50.42 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% +3.79% +0.77%
75th Percentile £44.95 - -
90th Percentile £46.10 £51.95 £51.51
London median hourly rate £22.00 £38.67 £24.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +57.84% -42.35%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in South London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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

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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 6 May 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
Croydon -20 6 £511 -11.22% 4
Bromley +4 1 £650 +13.04% 1
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 6 (85.71%) Confluence
1 6 (85.71%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Prime Brokerage
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Gloss Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) C++
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Rust
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Packer
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Consul
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft