Linux Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £528 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 409 475
Rank change year-on-year +31 +66 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 12 34 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 13
10th Percentile £391 £51 £338
25th Percentile £442 £344 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% +4.94% -4.71%
75th Percentile £564 £525 £475
90th Percentile £586 £563 £485
UK median daily rate £450 £473 £425
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £50.70 -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.62% -
75th Percentile - £74.50 £83.81
90th Percentile - £77.07 £83.93
UK median hourly rate - £55.63 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +17.11% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Linux Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Administrator
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 Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Scotland +45 5 £600 +50.00%
South East +12 5 £445 +748.10% 4
Midlands +30 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
Linux Administrator
UK

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Linux Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (75.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
4 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (50.00%) Bash
6 5 (41.67%) Confluence
6 5 (41.67%) Atlassian
6 5 (41.67%) JIRA
6 5 (41.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (33.33%) Python
8 3 (25.00%) VMware
8 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (16.67%) Ansible
9 2 (16.67%) RHCSA
9 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
9 2 (16.67%) Windows
9 2 (16.67%) Degree
9 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (16.67%) Azure
9 2 (16.67%) AWS
10 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
10 1 (8.33%) High Availability
10 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
10 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 1 (8.33%) Agile

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
1 5 (41.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (8.33%) Compliance Management
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (8.33%) High Availability
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) RHCSA
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) KVM
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (41.67%) Atlassian
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) IBM