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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 364 422
Rank change year-on-year +6 +58 +99
Contract jobs citing SELinux 9 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.049% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.39% 0.39% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 0
10th Percentile - £406 -
25th Percentile £525 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile - £525 -
90th Percentile - £540 -
UK median daily rate £650 £475 £688
% change year-on-year +36.84% -30.91% +68.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.63
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate - - £63.75
75th Percentile - - £64.69
90th Percentile - - £64.88
UK median hourly rate - - £63.75

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 2,298 2,312 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.04% 12.55% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 1,674 2,226
10th Percentile £235 £245 £275
25th Percentile £375 £394 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £623
90th Percentile £638 £659 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.75% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 43 105
10th Percentile £18.11 £17.53 £16.84
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -13.38% +130.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £62.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.14 £33.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +5.67% -42.17% +150.00%

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
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 6 August 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 West - 7 £650 - 1
North of England - 7 £650 - 1
South East +16 2 £550 +15.79% 1
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 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) NAS
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Eclipse
3 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (22.22%) Subversion
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
1 4 (44.44%) Use Case
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Kanban
2 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 3 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) UML
2 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Information Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C++
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Podman
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (44.44%) Splunk
3 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
3 2 (22.22%) Symantec
3 2 (22.22%) Veritas
3 2 (22.22%) VMware