Oracle Linux Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Oracle Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 389 446
Rank change year-on-year +58 +57 +52
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 5 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.048% 0.066%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.23% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £393 £550 £413
25th Percentile £494 £606 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% +23.84%
75th Percentile £559 - £555
90th Percentile £576 - £601
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £585
% change year-on-year -12.00% +6.84% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Oracle Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,195 3,275 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.19% 15.77% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,176 3,246
10th Percentile £178 £173 £163
25th Percentile £241 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 320 334
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Oracle Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Oracle Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Linux in the UK excluding London

Oracle Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Linux in the UK excluding London

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Linux in the UK excluding London

Oracle Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Linux in the UK excluding London

Oracle Linux
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 Oracle Linux within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +46 2 £550 - 2
North of England +16 1 £350 - 1
Scotland +11 1 - -
North East -3 1 £350 -
South West - 1 £575 -
Oracle Linux
UK

Oracle Linux
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Support
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (20.00%) VMS
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow