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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -23 +11
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 6 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 5.88% 2.74% 14.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.04% 20.69% 61.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 50
10th Percentile £447 £483 £475
25th Percentile £449 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -7.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £556 £531 £675
90th Percentile £658 £544 £725
London median daily rate £580 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +5.45% -12.00% +4.17%

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 29 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 15.88% 13.24% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 76
10th Percentile £181 £187 £158
25th Percentile £250 £200 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -7.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £522 £544 £625
90th Percentile £710 £567 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £31.34
25th Percentile - £40.82 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.84 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% -13.05% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £46.86 -
90th Percentile - - £51.70
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.09% -56.00% +108.33%

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 1 June 2025.

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

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 June 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 +5 5 £473 -7.44% 2
Bromley - 4 £650 - 8
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - - 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 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Camunda
3 1 (10.00%) Mattermost
3 1 (10.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (10.00%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VSAN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Skype
2 1 (10.00%) Softphone
2 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (10.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) GIS
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (10.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) jMock
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Mockito
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Electronics
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Real Time Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (30.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
1 3 (30.00%) Keycloak
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) JPA
3 1 (10.00%) LDAP
3 1 (10.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) GitOps
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Server Management
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Istio
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Safety
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (10.00%) Rancher
3 1 (10.00%) SCOM
3 1 (10.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Siemens