Linux Contracts in Suffolk

Linux
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 16 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -15
Contract jobs citing Linux 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 4.11% 1.56% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.71% 6.67% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £488 £181 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £188 -
Median % change year-on-year +206.93% - -
75th Percentile £663 £194 -
90th Percentile £716 - -
East of England median daily rate £490 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.91% +15.79% -2.56%

All Operating Systems
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 38.36% 23.44% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 6
10th Percentile £170 £178 £134
25th Percentile £178 £193 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £220 £196
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.10% -57.24%
75th Percentile £238 - £235
90th Percentile £418 £230 £238
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% - -
East of England median hourly rate £54.75 £60.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.75% +185.71% -19.09%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Suffolk

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Suffolk

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Suffolk over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Suffolk

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Suffolk.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Suffolk

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 19 July 2025. 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
Ipswich -4 1 £751 +300.53% 1
Felixstowe - 1 £400 - 1
Linux
East of England

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft