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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 23 5
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 +17
Contract jobs citing Linux 17 9 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 11.49% 8.74% 42.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.83% 33.33% 67.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 18
10th Percentile £338 £299 £465
25th Percentile £455 £300 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £456 £540
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -15.51% +9.09%
75th Percentile £539 £480 -
90th Percentile £547 £516 £564
Shropshire median daily rate £525 £456 £540
% change year-on-year +15.07% -15.51% +9.09%

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 24 27 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 16.22% 26.21% 62.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 28
10th Percentile £325 £298 £446
25th Percentile £405 £300 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £370 £540
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -31.48% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £460 -
90th Percentile £550 £469 £554
Shropshire median daily rate £460 £364 £540
% change year-on-year +26.37% -32.59% +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

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Telford over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Telford

Linux
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 7 (41.18%) WebLogic
2 6 (35.29%) Apache
3 3 (17.65%) Confluence
4 1 (5.88%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (70.59%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (17.65%) AWS KMS
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 3 (17.65%) IaaS
4 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (11.76%) Git
4 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (5.88%) ClearCase
5 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Unix
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Test Strategy
2 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (35.29%) Incident Management
2 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
2 6 (35.29%) Log Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) Observability
2 6 (35.29%) Performance Monitoring
2 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Proactive Management
2 6 (35.29%) Service Management
2 6 (35.29%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Perl
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Opsview
4 1 (5.88%) Consul
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) AppDynamics
2 9 (52.94%) Dynatrace
3 8 (47.06%) Splunk
4 6 (35.29%) Cisco
4 6 (35.29%) Oracle
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
6 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
6 3 (17.65%) IBM
7 2 (11.76%) PagerDuty
8 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
8 1 (5.88%) Red Hat