Linux Contracts in the South East

Linux
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 21 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 397 483 594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.15% 8.28% 7.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.51% 39.43% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 325 360
10th Percentile £355 £325 £361
25th Percentile £416 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £626
90th Percentile £638 £700 £694
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 26
10th Percentile £22.65 £49.55 £32.24
25th Percentile £41.50 £52.56 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +16.07% +23.76%
75th Percentile £68.13 £75.00 £67.01
90th Percentile £74.00 - £83.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +25.00%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 980 1,225 1,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.66% 20.99% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 842 1,014
10th Percentile £200 £200 £150
25th Percentile £263 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +6.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £674 £650
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 70 111
10th Percentile £15.98 £18.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.31 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62.25 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £75.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the South East

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the South East

Linux
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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 -4 155 £550 - 75
Thames Valley -2 149 £550 +7.58% 88
Berkshire -7 97 £570 +14.00% 44
Surrey +5 44 £450 -25.31% 36
Buckinghamshire +20 37 £521 -0.71% 20
West Sussex +5 28 £475 +54.47% 11
Oxfordshire +1 15 £500 - 24
East Sussex +10 8 £538 +2.38% 3
Middlesex - 3 £275 -
Sussex - 2 £550 - 1
Linux
England

Linux
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 28 (7.05%) Confluence
1 28 (7.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.77%) Apache
3 6 (1.51%) nginx
4 4 (1.01%) NetWeaver
4 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) Jadu
6 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.01%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.50%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (23.43%) Azure
2 50 (12.59%) AWS
3 32 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.04%) Entra ID
6 18 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (3.78%) Azure Storage
8 13 (3.27%) OCI
9 10 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (2.52%) GitHub
10 8 (2.02%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.76%) IaaS
12 6 (1.51%) PaaS
13 5 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.26%) CloudFront
13 5 (1.26%) Datadog
13 5 (1.26%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 71 (17.88%) SAN
2 62 (15.62%) DNS
3 50 (12.59%) Firewall
4 49 (12.34%) DHCP
5 33 (8.31%) TCP/IP
6 19 (4.79%) SSL
6 19 (4.79%) Wireless
7 18 (4.53%) Software-Defined Radio
8 16 (4.03%) SNMP
9 12 (3.02%) WAN
10 10 (2.52%) VLAN
11 9 (2.27%) iSCSI
12 8 (2.02%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (2.02%) NAS
13 7 (1.76%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (1.76%) Network Security
13 7 (1.76%) VPN
14 5 (1.26%) BGP
14 5 (1.26%) Skype
14 5 (1.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.54%) MySQL
3 20 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.52%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.52%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.76%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.26%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.26%) Power BI
9 5 (1.26%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.01%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.50%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 53 (13.35%) Git
2 31 (7.81%) JIRA
3 28 (7.05%) Bitbucket
4 22 (5.54%) GitLab
5 21 (5.29%) Robot Framework
6 18 (4.53%) Eclipse
7 16 (4.03%) GoogleTest
8 10 (2.52%) Jenkins
9 8 (2.02%) Selenium
10 6 (1.51%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.76%) ClearCase
13 3 (0.76%) ClearQuest
13 3 (0.76%) Hudson
13 3 (0.76%) TestRail
14 2 (0.50%) JMeter
14 2 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
14 2 (0.50%) Subversion
15 1 (0.25%) MagicDraw
General
1 73 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 33 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (6.55%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.79%) Telecoms
5 9 (2.27%) Aerospace
5 9 (2.27%) Finance
6 5 (1.26%) Billing
6 5 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.26%) Electronics
6 5 (1.26%) Marketing
6 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.01%) Automotive
8 3 (0.76%) Front Office
9 2 (0.50%) Back Office
9 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.50%) Legal
9 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (13.85%) Developer
2 50 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 43 (10.83%) Senior
4 34 (8.56%) Linux Engineer
5 33 (8.31%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.05%) Analyst
7 24 (6.05%) Architect
8 21 (5.29%) Administrator
9 19 (4.79%) Python Developer
10 17 (4.28%) C++ Software Engineer
10 17 (4.28%) Consultant
10 17 (4.28%) Systems Administrator
11 15 (3.78%) Active Directory Support
12 14 (3.53%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (3.53%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.53%) Support Specialist
13 13 (3.27%) Applications Engineer
14 12 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (3.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.04%) HTML
2 19 (4.79%) CSS
3 16 (4.03%) Flash
4 15 (3.78%) ARM Templates
5 13 (3.27%) Web Services
6 11 (2.77%) RESTful
7 9 (2.27%) .NET
7 9 (2.27%) XML
8 8 (2.02%) ADO
9 7 (1.76%) Django
9 7 (1.76%) LDAP
9 7 (1.76%) SOAP
10 6 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.51%) LAMP
11 5 (1.26%) REST
12 4 (1.01%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.01%) Kafka
12 4 (1.01%) Node.js
12 4 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.01%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.07%) PKI
2 31 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (5.29%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (5.04%) Client/Server
6 14 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.77%) CCTV
8 9 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.76%) Clustering
10 7 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.76%) Smart Meter
11 6 (1.51%) Replication
12 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.01%) Fat Client
13 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.01%) Thin Client
14 3 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 203 (51.13%) Windows
2 84 (21.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 77 (19.40%) Windows Server
4 56 (14.11%) Unix
5 42 (10.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (10.33%) Ubuntu
7 33 (8.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (6.30%) Debian
9 19 (4.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (4.28%) Windows 10
11 13 (3.27%) AIX
11 13 (3.27%) VMS
11 13 (3.27%) Windows XP
12 12 (3.02%) Solaris
13 8 (2.02%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (1.01%) Android
15 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.50%) CentOS
16 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (28.72%) Agile
2 74 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 67 (16.88%) ITIL
4 63 (15.87%) Software Engineering
5 60 (15.11%) Scrum
6 50 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (12.34%) DevOps
8 39 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (7.81%) Performance Tuning
9 31 (7.81%) Prototyping
9 31 (7.81%) Release Management
10 29 (7.30%) CI/CD
11 26 (6.55%) Application Packaging
11 26 (6.55%) Test Automation
12 25 (6.30%) Storage Management
13 23 (5.79%) Migration
13 23 (5.79%) RBAC
14 22 (5.54%) Customer Service
14 22 (5.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (21.16%) Python
2 73 (18.39%) PowerShell
3 50 (12.59%) C++
4 40 (10.08%) Bash
4 40 (10.08%) SQL
5 39 (9.82%) C#
6 35 (8.82%) VBScript
7 27 (6.80%) JavaScript
7 27 (6.80%) Shell Script
8 23 (5.79%) C
9 19 (4.79%) Java
10 15 (3.78%) Bicep
10 15 (3.78%) VB
11 9 (2.27%) Perl
12 8 (2.02%) ProC
13 7 (1.76%) PHP
14 6 (1.51%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.01%) Go
16 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 205 (51.64%) Security Cleared
2 131 (33.00%) SC Cleared
3 87 (21.91%) DV Cleared
4 84 (21.16%) Degree
5 21 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (4.53%) CCNA
7 15 (3.78%) CCNP
7 15 (3.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.27%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.26%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.01%) MCSE
11 4 (1.01%) SAP Certification
11 4 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.76%) HNC
12 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.76%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.27%) ISO 9001
2 11 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.52%) QA
4 8 (2.02%) GDPR
4 8 (2.02%) SLA
5 5 (1.26%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) COBIT
7 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA
7 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 93 (23.43%) Active Directory
2 84 (21.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (9.07%) vSphere
4 30 (7.56%) Hyper-V
5 29 (7.30%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (6.05%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (4.79%) Firmware
8 15 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (3.53%) Docker
10 8 (2.02%) VMware NSX
11 6 (1.51%) VirtualBox
12 4 (1.01%) KVM
12 4 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.50%) Ceph
14 2 (0.50%) NFS
14 2 (0.50%) Varnish
14 2 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.50%) XenApp
15 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 60 (15.11%) Ansible
2 51 (12.85%) SCCM
3 46 (11.59%) Kubernetes
4 37 (9.32%) WSUS
5 34 (8.56%) SCOM
6 27 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (5.29%) Terraform
8 20 (5.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (4.79%) vCenter Server
10 18 (4.53%) NetBackup
11 17 (4.28%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (3.53%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (2.52%) vRealize
14 9 (2.27%) Packer
15 6 (1.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 5 (1.26%) IBM BigFix
16 5 (1.26%) Nessus
16 5 (1.26%) Tivoli
17 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
17 4 (1.01%) Rancher
Vendors
1 131 (33.00%) VMware
2 106 (26.70%) Microsoft
3 71 (17.88%) Red Hat
4 56 (14.11%) Oracle
5 34 (8.56%) Cisco
6 25 (6.30%) HP
7 22 (5.54%) Veeam
8 20 (5.04%) Dell
8 20 (5.04%) EMC
9 18 (4.53%) 3PAR
9 18 (4.53%) Juniper
10 17 (4.28%) IBM
10 17 (4.28%) SolarWinds
11 16 (4.03%) Google
11 16 (4.03%) Symantec
12 15 (3.78%) Atlassian
12 15 (3.78%) Palo Alto
13 14 (3.53%) ArcSight
14 13 (3.27%) Extreme Networks
14 13 (3.27%) Splunk