Linux Systems Administrator Contracts in the South East

Linux System Administrator
England > South East

The median Linux System Administrator daily rate in the South East is £474 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 200 215 259
Rank change year-on-year +15 +44 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 6 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.084% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.090% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £377 - £414
25th Percentile £409 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.53%
75th Percentile £508 - £456
90th Percentile £521 - -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £59.32 -
25th Percentile - £63.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £70.06 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +64.85% -
75th Percentile - £76.18 £43.75
90th Percentile - £79.30 -
England median hourly rate - £70.06 £35.63
% change year-on-year - +96.66% -

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 Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the South East

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the South East

Linux Systems Administrator
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 Systems Administrator 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
Surrey - 3 £363 - 3
Hampshire - 2 £497 - 1
Thames Valley +7 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Linux Systems Administrator
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Linux Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (50.00%) Ansible
5 2 (33.33%) Docker
5 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
5 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (33.33%) Bash
5 2 (33.33%) RHCSA
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 2 (33.33%) Windows
6 1 (16.67%) Unix
6 1 (16.67%) LDAP
6 1 (16.67%) IBM
6 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL

Linux Systems Administrator 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Django
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) GitOps
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) RHCSA
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) IBM