Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 331 373
Rank change year-on-year -85 +42 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 6 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile £479 - £503
25th Percentile £503 £385 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +2.80% +12.63%
75th Percentile £681 £575 £603
90th Percentile - - £722
UK median daily rate £556 £385 £528
% change year-on-year +44.34% -27.01% +11.05%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,849 11,920 19,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 92.54% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,767 7,619 12,158
10th Percentile £250 £210 £210
25th Percentile £390 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £589
90th Percentile £675 £665 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,164 693 2,078
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £15.54
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -20.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.45 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +8.21% +1.54% -23.53%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Linux Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
South East -51 3 £536 - 1
East of England - 2 £681 -
Yorkshire -59 1 £475 -13.64%
North of England -68 1 £475 -13.64% 1
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 March 2026, Linux Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Debian
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) NVIDIA
4 2 (33.33%) Podman
4 2 (33.33%) QEMU
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (16.67%) SAP
5 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
5 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) SUSE
5 1 (16.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Acoustics
1 2 (33.33%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Debian
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) SUSE
3 1 (16.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) NVIDIA
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) SAP