Linux Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Linux
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 4.88% - 3.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.79% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
Somerset median daily rate £670 £700 £450
% change year-on-year -4.29% +55.56% -

All Operating Systems
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 38 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 30.89% 28.57% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 6 0
10th Percentile - £613 -
25th Percentile £406 £684 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £713 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.09% - -
75th Percentile £690 £715 -
90th Percentile £730 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £350 £220
% change year-on-year +35.71% +59.09% -34.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £90.00 £62.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +44.00% +380.77% -76.89%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Linux job vacancy trend in Taunton

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Linux

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Linux

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) MSI
2 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (16.67%) ATL
1 1 (16.67%) Blazor
1 1 (16.67%) COM
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) GeoJSON
1 1 (16.67%) MFC
1 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VirtualBox
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle