Senior Linux Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Linux Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Linux Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 450 513
Rank change year-on-year +57 +63 -85
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.021% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.022% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - £494 £471
25th Percentile £463 £504 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £537 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +4.83% +20.59%
75th Percentile £525 £596 £534
90th Percentile - £666 £544
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £750
% change year-on-year -1.91% -32.03% +30.43%

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 19,245 22,798 29,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 15,968 20,881
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +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 2,208 1,203 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.43 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.13 £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% +0.94%

Senior Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Linux Engineer
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 Senior Linux Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +21 5 £488 -9.26% 1
Senior Linux Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior Linux Engineer 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 Senior Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
3 3 (60.00%) Kanban
3 3 (60.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) SOLID
3 3 (60.00%) OOD
3 3 (60.00%) UML
3 3 (60.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) C++
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (60.00%) Storyboarding
3 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree

Senior Linux Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NFC
1 1 (20.00%) PPP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) GoogleTest
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
2 1 (20.00%) Valgrind
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (20.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) OOD
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) SOLID
2 3 (60.00%) Storyboarding
2 3 (60.00%) UML
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) C++
4 2 (40.00%) Perl
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Google