SELinux Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SELinux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SELinux 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 328 394 458
Rank change year-on-year +66 +64 +50
Contract jobs citing SELinux 8 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.024% 0.017%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.42% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £401 £435 £610
25th Percentile £441 £450 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -26.92% +59.51%
75th Percentile £575 - £675
90th Percentile - £505 £690
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £600
% change year-on-year - -20.83% +35.98%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

SELinux falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

SELinux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SELinux in the UK excluding London

SELinux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SELinux in the UK excluding London

SELinux
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SELinux in the UK excluding London

SELinux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SELinux in the UK excluding London

SELinux
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 SELinux 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
North of England - 3 - -
North West - 3 - -
South East +45 2 £550 +15.79%
Midlands +23 2 £400 -11.11% 1
West Midlands +15 2 £400 -11.11% 1
South West +46 1 £475 -5.00%
SELinux
UK

SELinux
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) NAS
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Eclipse
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Solaris
3 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Use Case
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Information Management
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) RHCE
4 2 (25.00%) RHCSA
5 1 (12.50%) CISSP
5 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (12.50%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (12.50%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Nagios
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Splunk
4 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (25.00%) Symantec
4 2 (25.00%) Veritas