Linux Contracts in Telford

Linux
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 1 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 5.56% 0.85% 43.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 5.00% 75.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 58
10th Percentile - - £458
25th Percentile £455 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.65%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £539 - £551
Shropshire median daily rate £460 - £539
% change year-on-year - - +3.95%

All Operating Systems
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 20 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 9.26% 17.09% 57.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 73
10th Percentile £439 £179 £464
25th Percentile £455 £341 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £374 £540
Median % change year-on-year +22.99% -30.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £515 £500 -
90th Percentile £538 £536 £560
Shropshire median daily rate £460 £358 £540
% change year-on-year +28.49% -33.70% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
Shropshire median hourly rate - £14.00 -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Telford

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Telford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Telford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Opsview
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) PagerDuty