Linux Contract Job Trends in Sutton

Linux
South London > Sutton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sutton 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 1 4 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sutton 83.33% 14.29% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +76.67% - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £525 £300 £575
% change year-on-year +75.00% -47.83% -4.17%

All Operating Systems
Sutton

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 Sutton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton 83.33% 28.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £513 £315 -
25th Percentile £514 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% - -
75th Percentile £545 £413 -
90th Percentile - £435 -
South London median daily rate £425 £325 £463
% change year-on-year +30.77% -29.73% -19.57%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Sutton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton.

Linux job vacancy trend in Sutton

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Sutton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Site Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (60.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Puppet
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) PagerDuty
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft