Linux Contracts in Surrey

Linux
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 44 41 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 7.45% 6.24% 8.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.00% 29.71% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 48
10th Percentile £353 £500 £329
25th Percentile £398 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £619 £538
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.12% +34.38%
75th Percentile £525 £647 £643
90th Percentile £650 £694 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £51.50 -
25th Percentile £16.25 £53.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £57.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +10.05% +65.87%
75th Percentile £42.19 £61.25 £57.00
90th Percentile £57.38 £63.50 -
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% +30.00% +11.11%

All Operating Systems
Surrey

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 Surrey with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 100 138 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 16.92% 21.00% 25.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 99 181
10th Percentile £168 £158 £180
25th Percentile £298 £190 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £563 £568 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
South East median daily rate £450 £487 £450
% change year-on-year -7.55% +8.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.92 £12.33
25th Percentile £23.75 £18.59 £26.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -26.32% +115.91%
75th Percentile £73.75 £55.63 £52.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £61.25 £57.00
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £48.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.13% +143.50% +14.29%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in Surrey

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 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
Redhill - 18 £450 - 2
Guildford +1 6 £363 -30.29% 11
Staines - 3 £650 - 1
Woking - 3 £400 - 7
Sunbury-on-Thames +20 2 - -
Dorking - 1 - - 1
Reigate - 1 £500 -
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 6 (13.64%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.55%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) WhatsApp
4 2 (4.55%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 9 (20.45%) SAN
3 7 (15.91%) Wireless
4 5 (11.36%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (11.36%) Firewall
4 5 (11.36%) SSL
5 4 (9.09%) BGP
5 4 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (9.09%) DHCP
5 4 (9.09%) DNS
6 3 (6.82%) iSCSI
6 3 (6.82%) NAS
6 3 (6.82%) VLAN
6 3 (6.82%) VoIP
6 3 (6.82%) VPN
7 2 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (4.55%) IPsec
7 2 (4.55%) Junos
7 2 (4.55%) MPLS
7 2 (4.55%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Git
2 7 (15.91%) JIRA
3 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.36%) Bitbucket
5 4 (9.09%) Artifactory
6 3 (6.82%) TestRail
7 1 (2.27%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.27%) GoogleTest
7 1 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (2.27%) Valgrind
7 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Billing
3 4 (9.09%) Electronics
4 3 (6.82%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Automotive
5 2 (4.55%) Back Office
5 2 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (2.27%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Senior
2 7 (15.91%) Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Administrator
4 5 (11.36%) C Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Development Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Software Development Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Test Development Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.82%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.82%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) RESTful
2 5 (11.36%) XML
3 4 (9.09%) SOAP
4 3 (6.82%) .NET
4 3 (6.82%) JSON
4 3 (6.82%) REST
5 2 (4.55%) Django
5 2 (4.55%) HTML
5 2 (4.55%) HTML5
5 2 (4.55%) YANG
6 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.27%) CSS
6 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.27%) Flash
6 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.82%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.27%) Digital TV
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Unix
1 20 (45.45%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (13.64%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.55%) Solaris
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.27%) Android
6 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.27%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.82%) Computer Science
3 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
3 10 (22.73%) Test Automation
4 9 (20.45%) Agile
4 9 (20.45%) Scrum
5 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (15.91%) Software Testing
7 6 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (13.64%) ITIL
7 6 (13.64%) Open Source
8 5 (11.36%) Change Management
8 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
8 5 (11.36%) SDLC
9 4 (9.09%) Data Security
9 4 (9.09%) Information Security
9 4 (9.09%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) SQL
2 12 (27.27%) Python
3 9 (20.45%) Shell Script
4 8 (18.18%) C++
5 7 (15.91%) Bash
5 7 (15.91%) C
5 7 (15.91%) ProC
6 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.36%) PL/SQL
6 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.82%) C#
7 3 (6.82%) Java
7 3 (6.82%) Perl
8 2 (4.55%) AWK
8 2 (4.55%) Bourne shell
8 2 (4.55%) Korn
8 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (61.36%) Degree
2 7 (15.91%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (9.09%) CCNA
5 4 (9.09%) RHCSA
5 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.82%) ISTQB
6 3 (6.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (6.82%) MCSE
6 3 (6.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (4.55%) CCNP
7 2 (4.55%) HNC
7 2 (4.55%) HND
7 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.55%) PhD
7 2 (4.55%) RHCE
8 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) SLA
2 4 (9.09%) QA
3 3 (6.82%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.55%) GDPR
4 2 (4.55%) ISO 9001
4 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.91%) Hyper-V
2 7 (15.91%) vSphere
3 6 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (9.09%) Firmware
4 4 (9.09%) VirtualBox
5 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.55%) KVM
5 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (4.55%) NetBackup
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (4.55%) WSUS
2 2 (4.55%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) VMware
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (22.73%) Oracle
4 6 (13.64%) Cisco
5 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.55%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (4.55%) EMC
6 2 (4.55%) F5
6 2 (4.55%) Forcepoint
6 2 (4.55%) IBM
6 2 (4.55%) Juniper
6 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.55%) SAP
6 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.55%) TOWER Software
6 2 (4.55%) Veritas
7 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Netskope
7 1 (2.27%) Zscaler