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 £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 388 412
Rank change year-on-year +57 +24 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 14 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.075% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.081% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 13
10th Percentile £385 - £349
25th Percentile £418 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £340 £575
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -40.87% +27.78%
75th Percentile £575 - £625
90th Percentile - £548 £630
UK median daily rate £515 £340 £540
% change year-on-year +51.47% -37.04% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,329 19,829 21,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.44% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,725 11,772 14,915
10th Percentile £220 £213 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 2,566 1,099
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.66 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.99 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -3.61% +107.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.69
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.80% -16.67% +76.47%

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 20 June 2025.

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 20 June 2025. 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
North of England +20 7 £550 - 2
West Midlands +16 6 £450 -
Midlands +13 6 £450 -
Yorkshire - 5 £550 - 2
North West +16 2 £385 -
South West +41 1 £460 -23.33% 2
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 20 June 2025, 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 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (85.71%) Windows
4 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
5 7 (50.00%) VMware
6 6 (42.86%) Agile
6 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
6 6 (42.86%) DNS
7 5 (35.71%) SAN
7 5 (35.71%) Bash
7 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
8 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (28.57%) NAS
8 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
8 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
8 4 (28.57%) LAN
8 4 (28.57%) SQL
8 4 (28.57%) Oracle
8 4 (28.57%) Dell
8 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (28.57%) Cisco
8 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
8 4 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (28.57%) Storage Management
8 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
9 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 3 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
9 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving

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 3 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) SAN
3 4 (28.57%) LAN
3 4 (28.57%) NAS
4 3 (21.43%) DHCP
5 1 (7.14%) Firewall
5 1 (7.14%) HTTP
5 1 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (7.14%) SSL
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Maven
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (85.71%) Windows
3 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) CentOS
4 1 (7.14%) Debian
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Security Management
4 3 (21.43%) SOA
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Capacity Management
6 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (7.14%) Log Aggregation
6 1 (7.14%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Bash
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Nessus
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Dell
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Sophos