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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 167 310 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.24% 8.46% 9.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.08% 42.01% 44.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 196 176
10th Percentile £463 £413 £313
25th Percentile £500 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £607
90th Percentile £769 £675 £656
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 46
10th Percentile £38.42 £49.79 £47.88
25th Percentile £48.50 £59.23 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £72.13 £69.05
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% +25.65%

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 490 738 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.37% 20.13% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 531 446
10th Percentile £166 £170 £154
25th Percentile £225 £273 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.10%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £463 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -10.41% +3.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 89 76
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.10 £16.24
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.68 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +124.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

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 25 April 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

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 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
Wiltshire -18 50 £656 +22.09% 26
Bristol -13 43 £500 -13.04% 80
Gloucestershire -6 40 £600 +9.09% 46
Dorset 0 14 £681 +39.74% 11
Devon +1 9 £600 -11.11% 12
Somerset -9 6 £475 +5.56% 13
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 30 (17.96%) Confluence
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.99%) nginx
3 4 (2.40%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.17%) Azure
2 21 (12.57%) AWS
3 12 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.99%) OpenShift
4 10 (5.99%) Serverless
5 6 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.59%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.99%) GCP
7 4 (2.40%) GitHub
8 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.80%) PaaS
9 2 (1.20%) IaaS
10 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.60%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.60%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.57%) Firewall
2 14 (8.38%) TCP/IP
2 14 (8.38%) VSAN
3 12 (7.19%) SAN
4 11 (6.59%) Network Security
5 9 (5.39%) DNS
6 8 (4.79%) LAN
6 8 (4.79%) WAN
7 7 (4.19%) FTP
8 5 (2.99%) AMQP
8 5 (2.99%) HTTPS
8 5 (2.99%) IPsec
9 4 (2.40%) 4G
9 4 (2.40%) 5G
9 4 (2.40%) VoIP
9 4 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.80%) Skype
11 2 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (1.20%) NAS
11 2 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) MySQL
2 6 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.59%) InfluxDB
2 6 (3.59%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.40%) Couchbase
3 4 (2.40%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (22.75%) Jenkins
2 36 (21.56%) JIRA
3 28 (16.77%) Bitbucket
4 23 (13.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (4.19%) Git
6 4 (2.40%) GitLab
7 3 (1.80%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.20%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.20%) GoogleTest
8 2 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.60%) GoCD
9 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.97%) Aerospace
4 10 (5.99%) Finance
5 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.79%) Legal
7 5 (2.99%) Electronics
7 5 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.40%) Marketing
8 4 (2.40%) Military
9 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Billing
11 1 (0.60%) Games
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (19.16%) Software Engineer
2 24 (14.37%) Developer
3 20 (11.98%) Embedded Engineer
4 19 (11.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 17 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.98%) VMware Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.59%) Senior
9 9 (5.39%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Architect
11 7 (4.19%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.99%) Test and Integration Engineer
14 4 (2.40%) IT Technician
14 4 (2.40%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 4 (2.40%) Senior Test Engineer
14 4 (2.40%) Service Desk Technician
14 4 (2.40%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.57%) .NET
2 23 (13.77%) .NET Core
3 9 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.40%) JSON
4 4 (2.40%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (2.40%) Middleware
4 4 (2.40%) REST
4 4 (2.40%) YAML
5 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.20%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.20%) ADO
5 2 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.20%) Lucene
5 2 (1.20%) Node.js
5 2 (1.20%) Qt
5 2 (1.20%) Web Services
6 1 (0.60%) Kafka
6 1 (0.60%) React
6 1 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) ARM Cortex
1 18 (10.78%) PKI
2 15 (8.98%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.99%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.59%) Replication
5 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.20%) Clustering
8 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.60%) STB
Operating Systems
1 52 (31.14%) Windows
2 18 (10.78%) FreeRTOS
3 17 (10.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.19%) Unix
6 5 (2.99%) CentOS
7 4 (2.40%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.80%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.20%) SUSE
9 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.60%) RTLinux
10 1 (0.60%) Solaris
10 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.34%) CI/CD
2 53 (31.74%) Configuration Management
3 40 (23.95%) Software Engineering
4 38 (22.75%) DevOps
5 29 (17.37%) Agile
5 29 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (15.57%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (14.97%) OO
7 25 (14.97%) Task Automation
8 24 (14.37%) Infrastructure Automation
9 23 (13.77%) Deployment Automation
9 23 (13.77%) OOP
10 22 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (11.98%) ITIL
12 13 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (7.78%) Service Management
13 12 (7.19%) Converged Infrastructure
14 10 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (5.99%) Scrum
14 10 (5.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (29.94%) Python
2 41 (24.55%) PowerShell
3 36 (21.56%) C
4 20 (11.98%) Java
5 18 (10.78%) Embedded C
6 13 (7.78%) Bash
7 11 (6.59%) SQL
8 10 (5.99%) C++
8 10 (5.99%) Go
9 6 (3.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.99%) PHP
11 4 (2.40%) C#
11 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.20%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.60%) Bicep
13 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.60%) ProC
13 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 120 (71.86%) Security Cleared
2 71 (42.51%) SC Cleared
3 48 (28.74%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.38%) Degree
5 4 (2.40%) HND
6 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.80%) OSCP
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CEH
8 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) PhD
8 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) QA
2 8 (4.79%) NIST
3 6 (3.59%) GDPR
4 4 (2.40%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.80%) SLA
6 2 (1.20%) JTAG
6 2 (1.20%) MISRA
7 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.60%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (19.76%) VMware NSX
2 29 (17.37%) VMware ESXi
3 22 (13.17%) Docker
4 21 (12.57%) vSphere
5 20 (11.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (7.19%) Active Directory
7 4 (2.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.60%) NFS
8 1 (0.60%) Samba
Systems Management
1 58 (34.73%) Ansible
2 32 (19.16%) Terraform
3 24 (14.37%) PowerCLI
4 23 (13.77%) Kubernetes
5 11 (6.59%) Grafana
5 11 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.39%) vCenter Server
7 7 (4.19%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.59%) Puppet
9 5 (2.99%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.40%) SCCM
11 2 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (1.20%) VxRail
12 1 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.60%) OPNET
12 1 (0.60%) Packer
12 1 (0.60%) SCOM
12 1 (0.60%) SELinux
Vendors
1 41 (24.55%) VMware
2 31 (18.56%) Atlassian
3 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
4 24 (14.37%) Dell
5 22 (13.17%) HP
6 18 (10.78%) IBM
6 18 (10.78%) Lauterbach
7 8 (4.79%) Google
7 8 (4.79%) Veeam
8 7 (4.19%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.19%) Cisco
9 6 (3.59%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.59%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.40%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.40%) SAP
11 3 (1.80%) Splunk
12 2 (1.20%) Citrix
12 2 (1.20%) Sparx
13 1 (0.60%) Adobe
13 1 (0.60%) Remedy