Linux Engineer Contracts in the South East

Linux Engineer
England > South East

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 195 224
Rank change year-on-year +22 +29 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 33 25 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.45% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 34
10th Percentile £425 £448 £385
25th Percentile £463 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +12.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £556 £584 £538
90th Percentile £650 £588 £635
England median daily rate £525 £555 £530
% change year-on-year -5.41% +4.72% +17.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £17.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,190 5,585 7,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.29% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,115 3,889 5,104
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 239 334
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £59.71
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in the South East

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hampshire +13 11 £588 +2.17% 4
East Sussex - 7 £538 -
West Sussex - 6 £475 -
Surrey +12 5 £450 - 1
Thames Valley +1 4 £650 +26.83% 5
Berkshire -9 3 £650 +36.84% 2
Buckinghamshire +24 1 - - 1
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (63.64%) Python
3 20 (60.61%) Bash
3 20 (60.61%) Ansible
4 18 (54.55%) Red Hat
5 16 (48.48%) Git
6 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (45.45%) VMware
7 12 (36.36%) Agile
8 11 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 11 (33.33%) AWS
8 11 (33.33%) Scrum
8 11 (33.33%) Unix
9 10 (30.30%) Oracle
9 10 (30.30%) vSphere
9 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
9 10 (30.30%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (27.27%) Runbook
10 9 (27.27%) Windows
10 9 (27.27%) Shell Script
11 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
11 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
11 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (24.24%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (24.24%) Project Delivery
11 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
12 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
12 7 (21.21%) Packer
12 7 (21.21%) GitLab
12 7 (21.21%) vRealize

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Datadog
3 5 (15.15%) IaaS
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.09%) CloudFront
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) Route 53
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) Fastly
5 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) NFC
4 1 (3.03%) PPP
4 1 (3.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) MongoDB
1 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.15%) MySQL
2 5 (15.15%) RDBMS
2 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (48.48%) Git
2 7 (21.21%) GitLab
3 6 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.12%) JIRA
5 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
6 2 (6.06%) Eclipse
6 2 (6.06%) Subversion
7 1 (3.03%) GoogleTest
7 1 (3.03%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (3.03%) TestRail
7 1 (3.03%) Valgrind
7 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) XML
2 3 (9.09%) RESTful
2 3 (9.09%) SOAP
3 2 (6.06%) Django
3 2 (6.06%) HornetQ
3 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.06%) VCL
4 1 (3.03%) Anaconda
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
4 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.09%) Smart Meter
3 1 (3.03%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (33.33%) Unix
4 9 (27.27%) Windows
5 7 (21.21%) Debian
5 7 (21.21%) VMS
6 6 (18.18%) Solaris
7 5 (15.15%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
9 1 (3.03%) CentOS
9 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) Scrum
3 10 (30.30%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (27.27%) Runbook
5 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (24.24%) Project Delivery
5 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.15%) Build Automation
7 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
7 5 (15.15%) High Availability
8 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.12%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (12.12%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.12%) UML
9 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 20 (60.61%) Bash
3 9 (27.27%) Shell Script
4 7 (21.21%) C++
5 4 (12.12%) C#
5 4 (12.12%) Perl
6 3 (9.09%) SQL
7 2 (6.06%) Java
7 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.03%) C
8 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) vSphere
2 7 (21.21%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.12%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (9.09%) VirtualBox
5 2 (6.06%) Varnish
5 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.03%) Ceph
6 1 (3.03%) Docker
6 1 (3.03%) Firmware
6 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Ansible
2 11 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (21.21%) Packer
3 7 (21.21%) vRealize
4 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (12.12%) Terraform
6 3 (9.09%) SELinux
7 2 (6.06%) HAProxy
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Pacemaker
8 1 (3.03%) Podman
8 1 (3.03%) Rancher
8 1 (3.03%) SCOM
8 1 (3.03%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 1 (3.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 15 (45.45%) VMware
3 10 (30.30%) Oracle
4 7 (21.21%) Veritas
5 5 (15.15%) Arqiva
5 5 (15.15%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco
6 2 (6.06%) Dell
7 1 (3.03%) Google
7 1 (3.03%) HP
7 1 (3.03%) IBM
7 1 (3.03%) Sun
7 1 (3.03%) Symantec