Linux Contracts in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 174 307 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.49% 8.43% 9.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.29% 42.52% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 196 177
10th Percentile £463 £413 £313
25th Percentile £500 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +10.81%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £605
90th Percentile £769 £675 £656
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 64 46
10th Percentile £39.56 £49.79 £47.88
25th Percentile £49.00 £59.23 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £72.13 £69.05
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 493 722 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.57% 19.83% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 523 448
10th Percentile £170 £167 £153
25th Percentile £238 £270 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.14%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 87 78
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.20 £16.34
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.86 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.80% +118.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South West

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South West

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Wiltshire -23 50 £656 +19.32% 23
Gloucestershire -4 46 £600 +9.09% 42
Bristol -10 44 £500 -13.04% 81
Dorset +2 14 £681 +39.74% 12
Devon +1 9 £600 -11.11% 12
Somerset -9 6 £475 +5.56% 13
Cornwall - 1 £396 -
Linux
England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 31 (17.82%) Confluence
2 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.87%) nginx
3 4 (2.30%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.79%) Azure
2 23 (13.22%) AWS
3 12 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.90%) OpenShift
4 10 (5.75%) Serverless
5 6 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (3.45%) GitHub
6 5 (2.87%) GCP
7 3 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.72%) PaaS
8 2 (1.15%) IaaS
9 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.57%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.57%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.07%) Firewall
2 14 (8.05%) TCP/IP
2 14 (8.05%) VSAN
3 12 (6.90%) SAN
4 11 (6.32%) Network Security
5 9 (5.17%) DNS
6 8 (4.60%) LAN
6 8 (4.60%) WAN
7 7 (4.02%) FTP
8 5 (2.87%) AMQP
8 5 (2.87%) HTTPS
8 5 (2.87%) IPsec
8 5 (2.87%) VPN
9 4 (2.30%) 4G
9 4 (2.30%) 5G
9 4 (2.30%) VoIP
9 4 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.72%) IPv4
10 3 (1.72%) OSPF
10 3 (1.72%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.02%) MySQL
2 6 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.45%) InfluxDB
2 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.30%) Couchbase
3 4 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (23.56%) Jenkins
2 39 (22.41%) JIRA
3 28 (16.09%) Bitbucket
4 23 (13.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (4.02%) Git
6 5 (2.87%) GitLab
7 4 (2.30%) GoogleTest
8 3 (1.72%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.15%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.57%) GoCD
10 1 (0.57%) JMeter
10 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.57%) Selenium
10 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.37%) Aerospace
4 10 (5.75%) Finance
5 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.60%) Legal
7 5 (2.87%) Electronics
7 5 (2.87%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.30%) Marketing
8 4 (2.30%) Military
9 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Banking
10 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Games
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (18.97%) Software Engineer
2 24 (13.79%) Developer
3 19 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (10.92%) Embedded Engineer
4 18 (10.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 15 (8.62%) VMware Engineer
6 14 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.90%) Senior
8 9 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Architect
9 7 (4.02%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Network Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) C++ Software Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Java Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Lead
11 5 (2.87%) Site Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.94%) .NET
2 23 (13.22%) .NET Core
3 9 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.30%) JSON
5 4 (2.30%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (2.30%) Middleware
5 4 (2.30%) Qt
5 4 (2.30%) REST
5 4 (2.30%) YAML
6 2 (1.15%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.15%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.15%) ADO
6 2 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.15%) Lucene
6 2 (1.15%) Node.js
6 2 (1.15%) Web Services
7 1 (0.57%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.57%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.34%) PKI
2 17 (9.77%) ARM Cortex
3 15 (8.62%) Data Centre
4 12 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.45%) Replication
6 5 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.15%) Clustering
9 2 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.15%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Thin Client
9 2 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 55 (31.61%) Windows
2 17 (9.77%) FreeRTOS
2 17 (9.77%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.60%) Unix
4 5 (2.87%) CentOS
5 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.72%) Kali Linux
7 2 (1.15%) SUSE
7 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.57%) RTLinux
8 1 (0.57%) Solaris
8 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (32.18%) CI/CD
2 55 (31.61%) Configuration Management
3 43 (24.71%) DevOps
4 41 (23.56%) Software Engineering
5 33 (18.97%) Agile
6 29 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (16.09%) Task Automation
8 26 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (14.37%) OO
10 24 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
11 23 (13.22%) Deployment Automation
11 23 (13.22%) OOP
12 20 (11.49%) ITIL
13 14 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (7.47%) Service Management
15 12 (6.90%) Converged Infrastructure
16 11 (6.32%) Containerisation
17 10 (5.75%) SDLC
17 10 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.18%) Python
2 45 (25.86%) PowerShell
3 36 (20.69%) C
4 22 (12.64%) Java
5 17 (9.77%) Embedded C
6 16 (9.20%) Bash
7 12 (6.90%) C++
7 12 (6.90%) SQL
8 10 (5.75%) Go
9 6 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.87%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.87%) PHP
11 4 (2.30%) C#
12 2 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.57%) Bicep
13 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.57%) ProC
13 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 123 (70.69%) Security Cleared
2 70 (40.23%) SC Cleared
3 52 (29.89%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.05%) Degree
5 4 (2.30%) HND
6 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.72%) OSCP
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CEH
8 1 (0.57%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PhD
8 1 (0.57%) RHCE
8 1 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) QA
2 8 (4.60%) NIST
3 6 (3.45%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.30%) MISRA
5 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.72%) SLA
6 2 (1.15%) JTAG
7 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.57%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (18.97%) VMware NSX
2 29 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 27 (15.52%) Docker
4 21 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (12.07%) vSphere
5 12 (6.90%) Active Directory
6 4 (2.30%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.57%) NFS
7 1 (0.57%) Samba
Systems Management
1 62 (35.63%) Ansible
2 35 (20.11%) Terraform
3 26 (14.94%) Kubernetes
4 24 (13.79%) PowerCLI
5 12 (6.90%) Grafana
5 12 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.17%) Puppet
6 9 (5.17%) vCenter Server
7 7 (4.02%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.87%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.30%) SCCM
10 2 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (1.15%) VxRail
11 1 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.57%) Kibana
11 1 (0.57%) Packer
11 1 (0.57%) SCOM
11 1 (0.57%) SELinux
Vendors
1 43 (24.71%) VMware
2 32 (18.39%) Atlassian
3 25 (14.37%) Microsoft
4 24 (13.79%) Dell
5 22 (12.64%) HP
6 17 (9.77%) IBM
6 17 (9.77%) Lauterbach
7 10 (5.75%) Google
8 8 (4.60%) Veeam
9 7 (4.02%) CheckPoint
9 7 (4.02%) Cisco
9 7 (4.02%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.45%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.30%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.30%) SAP
11 4 (2.30%) Splunk
12 2 (1.15%) Citrix
12 2 (1.15%) Oracle
12 2 (1.15%) Sparx
13 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow