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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 388 433
Rank change year-on-year +48 +45 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 13 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.019% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.020% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £456 - £478
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £516 £506 £575
90th Percentile £538 £518 £637
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 12,358 19,738 21,522
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 92.42% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,721 11,728 14,888
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 2,554 1,115
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.97 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Linux Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 June 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 +51 8 £475 - 6
North of England - 5 £525 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £525 - 2
North West - 1 - -
South West - 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 June 2025, 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 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 8 (61.54%) C++
3 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
3 8 (61.54%) Multithreading
3 8 (61.54%) Multithreaded Programming
4 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (46.15%) Git
4 6 (46.15%) Agile
5 5 (38.46%) C#
5 5 (38.46%) Smartcard
5 5 (38.46%) Java
5 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (38.46%) Web Services
5 5 (38.46%) XML
5 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
5 5 (38.46%) PPP
5 5 (38.46%) NFC
5 5 (38.46%) Valgrind
5 5 (38.46%) Memory Management
5 5 (38.46%) Cryptography
5 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
5 5 (38.46%) JSON
5 5 (38.46%) User Experience
5 5 (38.46%) REST
5 5 (38.46%) Front End Development
6 4 (30.77%) Ansible
6 4 (30.77%) Puppet
6 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP

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 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) NFC
1 5 (38.46%) PPP
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) SSH
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
2 5 (38.46%) Valgrind
3 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
3 3 (23.08%) GoogleTest
3 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 3 (23.08%) Postman
3 3 (23.08%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (23.08%) TestRail
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) JSON
1 5 (38.46%) REST
1 5 (38.46%) Web Services
1 5 (38.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Smartcard
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (23.08%) AIX
4 3 (23.08%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (23.08%) Solaris
4 3 (23.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Multithreaded Programming
1 8 (61.54%) Multithreading
1 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Cryptography
3 5 (38.46%) Front End Development
3 5 (38.46%) Memory Management
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Data Management
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) OOD
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) SOLID
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) C++
3 5 (38.46%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 3 (23.08%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) MuleSoft
2 3 (23.08%) VMware