Linux Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in Stockport

Linux
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	-	9
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-3
Contract jobs citing Linux	0	0	1
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport	-	-	6.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category	-	-	100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
Manchester median daily rate	£575	£550	£506
% change year-on-year	+4.55%	+8.64%	-15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Median hourly rate	-	-	£65.00
Manchester median hourly rate	-	-	£62.50
% change year-on-year	-	-	+35.14%

All Operating Systems
Stockport

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	0	0	1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport	-	-	6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
Manchester median daily rate	£393	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	-1.75%	-	-23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Median hourly rate	-	-	£65.00
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	+62.50%
Manchester median hourly rate	£20.73	£22.50	£43.75
% change year-on-year	-7.87%	-48.57%	+10.76%