Linux Contracts in the South West

Linux
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 28 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Linux 143 175 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.52% 5.47% 8.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.11% 35.35% 42.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 108 196
10th Percentile £440 £463 £413
25th Percentile £522 £500 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £638
90th Percentile £725 £769 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 36 62
10th Percentile - £40.70 £49.71
25th Percentile £65.75 £49.50 £60.03
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile - - £70.95
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 317 495 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.89% 15.47% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 357 520
10th Percentile £200 £170 £166
25th Percentile £250 £245 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 69 85
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £49.68
Median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

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

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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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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 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
Bristol +19 56 £500 - 57
Gloucestershire +10 39 £615 +2.50% 83
Wiltshire +20 36 £585 -10.86% 21
Somerset +1 4 £625 +31.58% 11
Devon +6 2 £550 -4.35% 13
Dorset -8 2 £688 +0.92% 7
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 9 (6.29%) Confluence
2 7 (4.90%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) nginx
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.87%) AWS
2 28 (19.58%) Azure
3 23 (16.08%) OpenShift
4 4 (2.80%) GCP
5 3 (2.10%) GitHub
6 2 (1.40%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.40%) IaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.70%) OCI
7 1 (0.70%) PaaS
7 1 (0.70%) SaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.78%) DNS
2 20 (13.99%) TCP/IP
3 17 (11.89%) DHCP
4 16 (11.19%) HTTP
5 11 (7.69%) Firewall
6 4 (2.80%) VPN
7 3 (2.10%) LAN
7 3 (2.10%) Network Security
7 3 (2.10%) WAN
8 2 (1.40%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.40%) VSAN
9 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.50%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.10%) Big Data
4 3 (2.10%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.10%) MySQL
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.70%) Flink
6 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (20.98%) Jenkins
2 22 (15.38%) Git
3 17 (11.89%) Bitbucket
4 12 (8.39%) JIRA
5 10 (6.99%) GitLab
6 4 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.80%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.70%) MLflow
8 1 (0.70%) Subversion
8 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (11.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.20%) Finance
5 4 (2.80%) Legal
6 3 (2.10%) Marketing
7 2 (1.40%) Electronics
7 2 (1.40%) Law
7 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Aviation
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (16.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (11.89%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (10.49%) Support Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Architect
7 11 (7.69%) Ada Engineer
7 11 (7.69%) Ada Software Engineer
7 11 (7.69%) Senior
8 9 (6.29%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Embedded Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Product Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Products Support Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Software Support Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Administrator
10 7 (4.90%) Linux Support
10 7 (4.90%) Linux Support Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.49%) Middleware
2 13 (9.09%) REST
3 11 (7.69%) SOAP
4 7 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.10%) ModSecurity
5 3 (2.10%) YAML
6 2 (1.40%) .NET
6 2 (1.40%) LAMP
6 2 (1.40%) Node.js
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.40%) React
6 2 (1.40%) Spring
6 2 (1.40%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.40%) Vue
7 1 (0.70%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.70%) Web Services
7 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.90%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.40%) Clustering
3 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.40%) PKI
3 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.40%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 64 (44.76%) Windows
2 30 (20.98%) Windows Server
3 22 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.10%) Unix
6 2 (1.40%) AIX
6 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.70%) Android
7 1 (0.70%) CentOS
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.70%) Rocky
7 1 (0.70%) Solaris
7 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.37%) Containerisation
2 39 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 38 (26.57%) DevOps
4 32 (22.38%) CI/CD
5 28 (19.58%) Service Management
6 24 (16.78%) Agile
6 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (16.08%) Configuration Management
8 21 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (11.89%) NsoIT
11 15 (10.49%) Validation
12 14 (9.79%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (9.09%) Task Automation
14 12 (8.39%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (8.39%) Test Automation
14 12 (8.39%) UML
15 11 (7.69%) SysML
16 10 (6.99%) Reverse Engineering
17 9 (6.29%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.06%) Python
2 44 (30.77%) Bash
3 40 (27.97%) PowerShell
4 29 (20.28%) Java
5 22 (15.38%) Ada
6 20 (13.99%) JavaScript
7 16 (11.19%) Shell Script
8 15 (10.49%) C++
9 13 (9.09%) C
10 11 (7.69%) SQL
11 6 (4.20%) Perl
12 3 (2.10%) C#
13 2 (1.40%) Fortran
13 2 (1.40%) PHP
13 2 (1.40%) Ruby
14 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 105 (73.43%) Security Cleared
2 64 (44.76%) SC Cleared
3 43 (30.07%) DV Cleared
4 18 (12.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (7.69%) OCA
5 11 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 11 (7.69%) RHCE
6 10 (6.99%) CCNP
6 10 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (6.99%) RHCA
7 4 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.10%) Degree
9 2 (1.40%) CISSP
9 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) GDPR
1 4 (2.80%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) NCSC
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
3 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 46 (32.17%) Docker
2 35 (24.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.59%) Hyper-V
4 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.40%) vSphere
7 1 (0.70%) NFS
7 1 (0.70%) Samba
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (46.85%) Ansible
2 48 (33.57%) Kubernetes
3 41 (28.67%) Terraform
4 39 (27.27%) Puppet
5 12 (8.39%) Progress Chef
5 12 (8.39%) vCenter Server
6 10 (6.99%) Prometheus
7 8 (5.59%) Grafana
8 3 (2.10%) Automic
8 3 (2.10%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.40%) Nessus
9 2 (1.40%) OPNET
9 2 (1.40%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.70%) Nagios
10 1 (0.70%) Packer
10 1 (0.70%) Podman
10 1 (0.70%) SELinux
10 1 (0.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (38.46%) VMware
2 35 (24.48%) Red Hat
3 22 (15.38%) Oracle
4 14 (9.79%) Cisco
5 10 (6.99%) Atlassian
5 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.80%) NetApp
6 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.10%) Foundry
8 2 (1.40%) Dell
8 2 (1.40%) F5
8 2 (1.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.70%) Citrix
9 1 (0.70%) Databricks
9 1 (0.70%) Google
9 1 (0.70%) Intel
9 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.70%) Splunk
9 1 (0.70%) Veeam