Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts 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 £568 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 439 499
Rank change year-on-year +66 +60 -91
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 17 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.083% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.088% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 15
10th Percentile £340 £342 -
25th Percentile £462 £445 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% +12.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £538
90th Percentile £722 - £565
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +2.15%

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 19,251 22,726 29,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.14% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,918 20,742
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £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 2,230 1,187 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer 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 26 April 2024.

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

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer 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 26 April 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 +42 11 £517 - 3
South West +24 2 £600 -7.69% 3
North of England +21 2 £505 +3.59%
West Midlands +31 1 - -
Midlands +26 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +19 1 £505 -
North West +15 1 - -
East of England - 1 £535 -
Wales - 1 - -
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Linux Infrastructure Engineer 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 9 (52.94%) Python
3 9 (52.94%) Perl
4 8 (47.06%) Unix
4 8 (47.06%) Finance
5 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (41.18%) High Availability
6 6 (35.29%) DevOps
6 6 (35.29%) Windows
7 5 (29.41%) Java
7 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
7 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
7 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
7 5 (29.41%) Agile
7 5 (29.41%) Banking
7 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (23.53%) Preventative Maintenance
8 4 (23.53%) Observability
8 4 (23.53%) NVMe
8 4 (23.53%) Storage Management
8 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
8 4 (23.53%) Docker
8 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
8 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
8 4 (23.53%) GPFS
8 4 (23.53%) SDLC
8 4 (23.53%) Data ONTAP

Linux Infrastructure Engineer 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 4 (23.53%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (23.53%) iSCSI
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) HTTP
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Flash
1 4 (23.53%) POSIX
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) Redfish
2 1 (5.88%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Client/Server
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
1 4 (23.53%) NVMe
2 2 (11.76%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Unix
3 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (35.29%) Windows
5 4 (23.53%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (11.76%) CentOS
6 2 (11.76%) Debian
6 2 (11.76%) Solaris
6 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) High Availability
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
5 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (23.53%) Observability
5 4 (23.53%) OO
5 4 (23.53%) Preventative Maintenance
5 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
5 4 (23.53%) SDLC
5 4 (23.53%) Storage Management
6 3 (17.65%) Investment Management
6 3 (17.65%) Server Management
6 3 (17.65%) Storage Virtualisation
6 3 (17.65%) Wealth Management
7 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
7 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Perl
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) C
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
1 4 (23.53%) GPFS
1 4 (23.53%) NFS
2 2 (11.76%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (23.53%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
2 4 (23.53%) Brocade
2 4 (23.53%) EMC
2 4 (23.53%) Google
2 4 (23.53%) IBM
2 4 (23.53%) NetApp
2 4 (23.53%) Sybase
2 4 (23.53%) Veritas
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) HP