Linux Systems Administrator Contracts in the UK excluding London

Linux System Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Linux System Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 431 487
Rank change year-on-year +55 +56 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 17 20 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.084% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.089% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 11
10th Percentile £430 - £400
25th Percentile £489 £51 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £548 £448 £466
90th Percentile £600 £500 £563
UK median daily rate £498 £437 £425
% change year-on-year +14.09% +2.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £81.53
25th Percentile - £51.25 £81.94
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £83.25
Median % change year-on-year - -36.94% -
75th Percentile - £60.63 £83.94
90th Percentile - £73.07 £83.98
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year - -5.62% -

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 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £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 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Linux Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Systems Administrator in the UK excluding London

Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +44 7 £600 +50.00%
South East +20 6 £497 +846.67% 2
Midlands +32 4 £509 - 4
East Midlands - 4 £509 - 1
Linux Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Linux Systems 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (82.35%) Red Hat
4 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
4 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
5 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Satellite
6 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
7 7 (41.18%) Roadmaps
7 7 (41.18%) Technology Roadmap
7 7 (41.18%) Bash
7 7 (41.18%) Confluence
7 7 (41.18%) JIRA
7 7 (41.18%) Atlassian
8 6 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (29.41%) Ansible
9 5 (29.41%) Python
10 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
10 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
11 3 (17.65%) VMware
11 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
12 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
12 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 2 (11.76%) Due Diligence
12 2 (11.76%) Storage Management
12 2 (11.76%) Docker
12 2 (11.76%) RHCSA
12 2 (11.76%) GitLab
12 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
12 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
12 2 (11.76%) Degree

Linux Systems 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 7 (41.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) IBM Cloud
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Roadmaps
1 7 (41.18%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (11.76%) Agile
2 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (11.76%) Due Diligence
2 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) Project Management
2 2 (11.76%) Storage Management
3 1 (5.88%) Compliance Management
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.88%) High Availability
3 1 (5.88%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
4 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) RHCSA
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) KVM
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Satellite
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Red Hat
2 7 (41.18%) Atlassian
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) IBM