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

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 25 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Linux 136 183 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.94% 5.77% 8.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.24% 36.97% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 111 204
10th Percentile £440 £463 £421
25th Percentile £511 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £638
90th Percentile £725 £769 £706
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 39 61
10th Percentile - £48.00 £48.48
25th Percentile £65.75 £65.00 £57.33
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile - - £70.30
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 322 495 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.81% 15.61% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 355 510
10th Percentile £200 £173 £177
25th Percentile £246 £259 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.38% +17.61%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £475 £470 £513
% change year-on-year +1.06% -8.29% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 72 83
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.15
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £49.08
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £23.15 £22.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +5.23% -41.33% +70.45%

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 10 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

Linux
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 10 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 55 £500 - 68
Gloucestershire +10 38 £615 +2.50% 90
Wiltshire +17 31 £585 -6.40% 22
Somerset 0 4 £625 +31.58% 14
Devon +7 2 £550 -4.35% 18
Dorset -8 2 £688 +0.92% 5
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 8 (5.88%) Confluence
2 6 (4.41%) Apache
3 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 44 (32.35%) AWS
2 27 (19.85%) Azure
3 23 (16.91%) OpenShift
4 4 (2.94%) GCP
5 3 (2.21%) GitHub
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.74%) IaaS
7 1 (0.74%) OCI
7 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.65%) DNS
2 20 (14.71%) TCP/IP
3 17 (12.50%) DHCP
4 16 (11.76%) HTTP
5 10 (7.35%) Firewall
6 4 (2.94%) VPN
7 3 (2.21%) LAN
7 3 (2.21%) Network Security
7 3 (2.21%) WAN
8 2 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.47%) VSAN
9 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.47%) Big Data
4 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.47%) MySQL
4 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.74%) Flink
5 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (21.32%) Jenkins
2 21 (15.44%) Git
3 16 (11.76%) Bitbucket
4 11 (8.09%) GitLab
4 11 (8.09%) JIRA
5 4 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.74%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.74%) Subversion
7 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (11.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.41%) Finance
4 5 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.94%) Legal
6 3 (2.21%) Marketing
7 2 (1.47%) Electronics
7 2 (1.47%) Law
7 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Military
8 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (13.97%) Software Engineer
3 18 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (13.24%) Linux Engineer
4 17 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Architect
5 11 (8.09%) Product Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Products Support Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) Senior
5 11 (8.09%) Software Support Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Ada Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Ada Software Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (5.88%) Linux Support
7 8 (5.88%) Linux Support Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (4.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.76%) Middleware
2 13 (9.56%) REST
3 11 (8.09%) SOAP
4 6 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.21%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.47%) LAMP
6 2 (1.47%) Node.js
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.47%) Spring
6 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.47%) YAML
7 1 (0.74%) .NET
7 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.74%) JPA
7 1 (0.74%) LDAP
7 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.74%) React
7 1 (0.74%) Web Services
7 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.41%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.47%) Clustering
3 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.47%) PKI
3 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.47%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (45.59%) Windows
2 30 (22.06%) Windows Server
3 21 (15.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (11.03%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.21%) Unix
6 2 (1.47%) AIX
6 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.74%) Android
7 1 (0.74%) CentOS
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.74%) Rocky
7 1 (0.74%) Solaris
7 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.15%) Containerisation
2 38 (27.94%) Software Engineering
3 34 (25.00%) DevOps
4 30 (22.06%) CI/CD
5 28 (20.59%) Service Management
6 23 (16.91%) Agile
7 22 (16.18%) Configuration Management
7 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (12.50%) NsoIT
11 15 (11.03%) Validation
12 14 (10.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (8.82%) Task Automation
14 11 (8.09%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (8.09%) Test Automation
15 10 (7.35%) Reverse Engineering
15 10 (7.35%) UML
16 9 (6.62%) Disaster Recovery
16 9 (6.62%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 61 (44.85%) Python
2 42 (30.88%) Bash
3 38 (27.94%) PowerShell
4 29 (21.32%) Java
5 22 (16.18%) Ada
6 21 (15.44%) JavaScript
7 17 (12.50%) C++
8 16 (11.76%) Shell Script
9 15 (11.03%) C
10 11 (8.09%) SQL
11 5 (3.68%) Perl
12 3 (2.21%) C#
13 2 (1.47%) Fortran
13 2 (1.47%) PHP
14 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (71.32%) Security Cleared
2 58 (42.65%) SC Cleared
3 39 (28.68%) DV Cleared
4 18 (13.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (8.09%) OCA
5 11 (8.09%) Oracle Certification
5 11 (8.09%) RHCE
6 10 (7.35%) CCNP
6 10 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (7.35%) RHCA
7 4 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.74%) Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.74%) MCSA
8 1 (0.74%) MCSE
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.21%) GDPR
1 3 (2.21%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.74%) NCSC
2 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 44 (32.35%) Docker
2 34 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 12 (8.82%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.47%) vSphere
7 1 (0.74%) NFS
7 1 (0.74%) Samba
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (48.53%) Ansible
2 45 (33.09%) Kubernetes
3 40 (29.41%) Terraform
4 39 (28.68%) Puppet
5 12 (8.82%) Progress Chef
5 12 (8.82%) vCenter Server
6 8 (5.88%) Prometheus
7 7 (5.15%) Grafana
8 3 (2.21%) Automic
9 2 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.47%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.47%) Nessus
10 1 (0.74%) Nagios
10 1 (0.74%) OPNET
10 1 (0.74%) Podman
10 1 (0.74%) SCCM
10 1 (0.74%) SELinux
10 1 (0.74%) VxRail
10 1 (0.74%) WSUS
10 1 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (39.71%) VMware
2 37 (27.21%) Red Hat
3 22 (16.18%) Oracle
4 14 (10.29%) Cisco
5 10 (7.35%) Atlassian
5 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.94%) NetApp
7 2 (1.47%) Dell
7 2 (1.47%) F5
7 2 (1.47%) SAP
7 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.74%) Citrix
8 1 (0.74%) Databricks
8 1 (0.74%) Foundry
8 1 (0.74%) Google
8 1 (0.74%) Intel
8 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.74%) Splunk
8 1 (0.74%) Veeam