Linux Contracts in the Thames Valley

Linux
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 31 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 145 195 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.46% 6.73% 6.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.08% 44.42% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 127 140
10th Percentile £400 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £568 £625
90th Percentile - £623 £700
South East median daily rate £528 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.33% +16.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £47.38 £25.40 £13.38
25th Percentile £49.06 £43.13 £23.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £64.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +35.53% +2.70%
75th Percentile £65.94 £76.59 £62.81
90th Percentile £67.63 £83.21 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -3.85% +22.91% +8.48%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 391 439 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.71% 15.15% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 311 437
10th Percentile £193 £213 £145
25th Percentile £213 £350 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% +11.80%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £608 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £455 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.21% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 21
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.52 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +143.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £53.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.21% +167.50% -

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Berkshire -6 96 £598 +22.56% 59
Buckinghamshire +20 37 £521 -0.19% 15
Oxfordshire -4 12 £500 +2.56% 28
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 21 (14.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.76%) NetWeaver
3 2 (1.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Drupal
4 1 (0.69%) Jadu
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.38%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 59 (40.69%) Azure
2 19 (13.10%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (12.41%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (11.03%) Azure Storage
4 16 (11.03%) Entra ID
5 14 (9.66%) OCI
6 13 (8.97%) AWS
7 12 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.76%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.76%) PaaS
9 4 (2.76%) Serverless
10 3 (2.07%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (28.28%) DNS
2 39 (26.90%) SAN
3 36 (24.83%) DHCP
4 34 (23.45%) Firewall
5 19 (13.10%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.52%) SSL
6 8 (5.52%) WAN
7 5 (3.45%) Network Security
7 5 (3.45%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.76%) NAS
9 3 (2.07%) VPN
10 2 (1.38%) Broadband
10 2 (1.38%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.38%) InfiniBand
10 2 (1.38%) Skype
10 2 (1.38%) Wireless
11 1 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.90%) MySQL
2 9 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.83%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.45%) Power BI
6 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.76%) SAP BW
6 4 (2.76%) SAP HANA
7 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (1.38%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.69%) Big Data
9 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Git
2 4 (2.76%) GitLab
3 3 (2.07%) Robot Framework
3 3 (2.07%) Selenium
4 1 (0.69%) CMake
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.72%) Telecoms
3 13 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.07%) Finance
7 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.38%) Marketing
8 1 (0.69%) Electronics
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (17.93%) Developer
2 21 (14.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (13.10%) Python Developer
4 16 (11.03%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (10.34%) Analyst
5 15 (10.34%) Senior
6 14 (9.66%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (9.66%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (9.66%) Support Specialist
7 11 (7.59%) Architect
8 10 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) Consultant
9 8 (5.52%) Security Analyst
9 8 (5.52%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 6 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.14%) Security Specialist
11 6 (4.14%) Senior Security Specialist
11 6 (4.14%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) ARM Templates
2 8 (5.52%) Web Services
3 4 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.76%) SAP Basis
3 4 (2.76%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (2.76%) XML
4 2 (1.38%) .NET
4 2 (1.38%) EDI
4 2 (1.38%) Flash
4 2 (1.38%) SOAP
5 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.69%) CSS
5 1 (0.69%) Django
5 1 (0.69%) HTML
5 1 (0.69%) jQuery
5 1 (0.69%) Kafka
5 1 (0.69%) LAMP
5 1 (0.69%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.31%) PKI
2 18 (12.41%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (11.72%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.21%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.83%) Client/Server
5 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.76%) Fat Client
7 4 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.76%) Smart Meter
7 4 (2.76%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.38%) CCTV
8 2 (1.38%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 82 (56.55%) Windows
2 46 (31.72%) Windows Server
3 39 (26.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 33 (22.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (17.24%) Ubuntu
6 23 (15.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (13.10%) Debian
7 19 (13.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (11.03%) Unix
9 14 (9.66%) Windows 10
9 14 (9.66%) Windows XP
10 4 (2.76%) Android
10 4 (2.76%) VMS
11 3 (2.07%) Solaris
12 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.38%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.86%) ITIL
2 43 (29.66%) Agile
3 30 (20.69%) DevOps
4 26 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
6 23 (15.86%) Release Management
7 22 (15.17%) Analytics
8 21 (14.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (13.79%) Data Modelling
10 19 (13.10%) Proactive Monitoring
10 19 (13.10%) Project Management
11 18 (12.41%) CI/CD
12 17 (11.72%) Identity Management
12 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (11.72%) Service Management
13 16 (11.03%) Log Analytics
13 16 (11.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 16 (11.03%) Privileged Identity Management
13 16 (11.03%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.28%) PowerShell
2 34 (23.45%) Python
3 23 (15.86%) VBScript
4 22 (15.17%) C#
5 16 (11.03%) Bicep
5 16 (11.03%) SQL
5 16 (11.03%) VB
6 5 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.76%) Bash
8 3 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.69%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) Go
10 1 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (63.45%) Security Cleared
2 64 (44.14%) SC Cleared
3 57 (39.31%) DV Cleared
4 46 (31.72%) Degree
5 16 (11.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (9.66%) CCNA
6 14 (9.66%) CCNP
6 14 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.76%) SAP Certification
8 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.69%) HNC
9 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) RHCE
9 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) ISO 9000
2 4 (2.76%) GDPR
3 3 (2.07%) QA
4 1 (0.69%) COBIT
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (33.10%) Active Directory
2 33 (22.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.41%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (12.41%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (11.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (10.34%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.76%) Docker
7 3 (2.07%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.38%) KVM
8 2 (1.38%) NFS
8 2 (1.38%) vSphere
9 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (24.14%) SCCM
2 34 (23.45%) WSUS
3 32 (22.07%) SCOM
4 22 (15.17%) Kubernetes
5 20 (13.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (12.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (12.41%) vCenter Server
7 17 (11.72%) NetBackup
8 16 (11.03%) EMC NetWorker
9 15 (10.34%) Ansible
10 6 (4.14%) Terraform
11 4 (2.76%) Nessus
11 4 (2.76%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.76%) ZABBIX
12 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
13 2 (1.38%) Grafana
13 2 (1.38%) Graylog
13 2 (1.38%) Packer
13 2 (1.38%) PaperCut
13 2 (1.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 58 (40.00%) VMware
3 36 (24.83%) Red Hat
4 27 (18.62%) Oracle
5 23 (15.86%) Cisco
6 21 (14.48%) HP
7 20 (13.79%) Veeam
8 19 (13.10%) 3PAR
9 17 (11.72%) Dell
10 16 (11.03%) EMC
11 14 (9.66%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (9.66%) Juniper
11 14 (9.66%) Palo Alto
11 14 (9.66%) Symantec
12 12 (8.28%) Splunk
13 7 (4.83%) Nimble Storage
14 5 (3.45%) NetApp
14 5 (3.45%) SAP
15 4 (2.76%) Ab Initio
16 3 (2.07%) Veritas