Linux/Unix DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Linux/Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Linux/Unix daily rate in the UK excluding London is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 446 497
Rank change year-on-year +62 +51 -89
Contract jobs requiring a Linux/Unix DevOps 11 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.025% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.026% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 17
10th Percentile £514 £403 £440
25th Percentile £515 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -13.64% +20.55%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile - £684 £720
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%

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 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £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 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Linux/Unix DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux/Unix DevOps in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix DevOps
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/Unix DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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 - 8 £650 -
South East +14 2 £530 +11.58% 2
North of England +40 1 £525 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
Linux/Unix DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Linux/Unix DevOps 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/Unix DevOps in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Perl
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Git
3 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (36.36%) Unix
4 4 (36.36%) DNS
5 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
5 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) Bash
5 3 (27.27%) Terraform
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
6 2 (18.18%) Fastly
6 2 (18.18%) HAProxy
6 2 (18.18%) Ansible
6 2 (18.18%) Datadog
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (18.18%) Server Management
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Varnish
6 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ

Linux/Unix DevOps 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) CloudFront
2 2 (18.18%) Datadog
2 2 (18.18%) Fastly
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Route 53
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
3 1 (9.09%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Django
1 2 (18.18%) HornetQ
1 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (18.18%) VCL
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
2 1 (9.09%) Redfish
2 1 (9.09%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 2 (18.18%) Debian
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) Open Source
4 2 (18.18%) Server Management
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) GitOps
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Kanban
5 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) C
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Ruby
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Varnish
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) HAProxy
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) VMware