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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 181 307 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.71% 8.65% 8.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.71% 43.55% 43.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 198 174
10th Percentile £463 £418 £313
25th Percentile £500 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +10.22%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £600
90th Percentile £769 £700 £656
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 61 47
10th Percentile £48.00 £48.48 £48.05
25th Percentile £65.00 £57.33 £55.85
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £69.05
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

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 493 705 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.54% 19.87% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 504 456
10th Percentile £173 £178 £154
25th Percentile £258 £275 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £440
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +15.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £546
90th Percentile £700 £690 £638
England median daily rate £467 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.98% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 83 75
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.15 £16.20
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.08 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +141.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.80%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 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
Wiltshire -16 53 £625 +13.64% 22
Bristol -6 50 £500 -16.67% 67
Gloucestershire -8 43 £600 +9.09% 41
Dorset -1 14 £681 +39.74% 10
Devon -1 10 £575 -14.81% 11
Somerset -12 6 £475 +5.56% 11
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 1
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 32 (17.68%) Confluence
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.76%) nginx
4 4 (2.21%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.55%) Magento
2 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.81%) Azure
2 23 (12.71%) AWS
3 13 (7.18%) OpenShift
4 10 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.97%) GitHub
5 9 (4.97%) Serverless
6 6 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.31%) GCP
7 4 (2.21%) PaaS
8 3 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.10%) IaaS
10 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.55%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.55%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.05%) Firewall
2 17 (9.39%) TCP/IP
3 14 (7.73%) VSAN
4 11 (6.08%) Network Security
5 10 (5.52%) SAN
6 9 (4.97%) DNS
7 8 (4.42%) LAN
7 8 (4.42%) WAN
8 7 (3.87%) FTP
9 6 (3.31%) VPN
10 5 (2.76%) AMQP
10 5 (2.76%) Ethernet
10 5 (2.76%) HTTPS
10 5 (2.76%) IPsec
11 4 (2.21%) 4G
11 4 (2.21%) 5G
11 4 (2.21%) VoIP
11 4 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.66%) IPv4
12 3 (1.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.87%) MySQL
2 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.31%) InfluxDB
2 6 (3.31%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.21%) Couchbase
3 4 (2.21%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.55%) DB2
5 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 44 (24.31%) Jenkins
2 43 (23.76%) JIRA
3 29 (16.02%) Bitbucket
4 23 (12.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (3.87%) Git
6 6 (3.31%) GoogleTest
7 5 (2.76%) Eclipse
7 5 (2.76%) GitLab
7 5 (2.76%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.66%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.55%) GoCD
10 1 (0.55%) JMeter
10 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.55%) Selenium
10 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.81%) Aerospace
4 9 (4.97%) Finance
5 8 (4.42%) Legal
5 8 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.87%) Military
7 5 (2.76%) Electronics
7 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.21%) Marketing
9 3 (1.66%) Banking
9 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Automotive
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (20.99%) Software Engineer
2 25 (13.81%) Developer
3 20 (11.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (10.50%) Embedded Engineer
5 18 (9.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 15 (8.29%) VMware Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Senior
9 9 (4.97%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Architect
11 7 (3.87%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) C# Software Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Site Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Test and Integration Engineer
13 5 (2.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.92%) .NET
2 23 (12.71%) .NET Core
3 9 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (3.87%) Qt
5 6 (3.31%) Web Services
6 5 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.76%) Node.js
7 4 (2.21%) JSON
7 4 (2.21%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (2.21%) Middleware
7 4 (2.21%) REST
7 4 (2.21%) YAML
8 3 (1.66%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.10%) 802.1X
9 2 (1.10%) ADO
9 2 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.10%) Lucene
9 2 (1.10%) ModSecurity
10 1 (0.55%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.94%) PKI
2 17 (9.39%) ARM Cortex
3 15 (8.29%) Data Centre
3 15 (8.29%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.31%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.31%) Replication
6 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (31.49%) Windows
2 17 (9.39%) FreeRTOS
3 16 (8.84%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.42%) Unix
6 6 (3.31%) CentOS
7 4 (2.21%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.66%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.10%) SUSE
9 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.55%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.55%) RTLinux
10 1 (0.55%) Solaris
10 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.81%) CI/CD
2 55 (30.39%) Configuration Management
3 46 (25.41%) DevOps
3 46 (25.41%) Software Engineering
4 39 (21.55%) Agile
5 29 (16.02%) Continuous Integration
5 29 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (15.47%) Task Automation
7 26 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (13.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 25 (13.81%) OO
9 23 (12.71%) Deployment Automation
9 23 (12.71%) OOP
10 21 (11.60%) ITIL
11 14 (7.73%) Service Management
12 13 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (6.63%) Converged Infrastructure
14 11 (6.08%) Containerisation
14 11 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (5.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (33.15%) Python
2 45 (24.86%) PowerShell
3 37 (20.44%) C
4 25 (13.81%) Java
5 18 (9.94%) C++
6 17 (9.39%) Embedded C
7 16 (8.84%) Bash
8 11 (6.08%) SQL
9 10 (5.52%) Go
10 8 (4.42%) JavaScript
11 7 (3.87%) C#
12 6 (3.31%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.76%) PHP
14 2 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (1.10%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.55%) Bicep
15 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.55%) ProC
15 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 125 (69.06%) Security Cleared
2 72 (39.78%) SC Cleared
3 52 (28.73%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.84%) Degree
5 4 (2.21%) HND
5 4 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.66%) OSCP
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CEH
8 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.55%) GIAC
8 1 (0.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) PhD
8 1 (0.55%) RHCE
8 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) NIST
1 8 (4.42%) QA
2 7 (3.87%) MISRA
3 6 (3.31%) GDPR
4 4 (2.21%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.66%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.66%) SLA
6 2 (1.10%) JTAG
7 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.55%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (18.23%) VMware NSX
2 29 (16.02%) Docker
2 29 (16.02%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (11.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (10.50%) vSphere
5 10 (5.52%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.55%) NFS
7 1 (0.55%) Samba
Systems Management
1 64 (35.36%) Ansible
2 37 (20.44%) Terraform
3 27 (14.92%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.81%) PowerCLI
5 12 (6.63%) Grafana
5 12 (6.63%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.97%) Puppet
6 9 (4.97%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.87%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.76%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.10%) OPNET
9 2 (1.10%) SCCM
9 2 (1.10%) VxRail
10 1 (0.55%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.55%) Kibana
10 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.55%) Packer
10 1 (0.55%) SCOM
10 1 (0.55%) SELinux
10 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (23.76%) VMware
2 33 (18.23%) Atlassian
3 28 (15.47%) Microsoft
4 24 (13.26%) Dell
5 22 (12.15%) HP
6 18 (9.94%) IBM
7 17 (9.39%) Lauterbach
8 14 (7.73%) Google
9 9 (4.97%) Red Hat
10 8 (4.42%) Cisco
10 8 (4.42%) Veeam
11 7 (3.87%) CheckPoint
12 6 (3.31%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.76%) SAP
13 5 (2.76%) Splunk
14 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
15 2 (1.10%) Citrix
15 2 (1.10%) Oracle
15 2 (1.10%) Sparx
16 1 (0.55%) Adobe