Linux Developer Contracts

Linux Developer
UK

The median Linux Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 557 628
Rank change year-on-year +61 +71 +188
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Developer 54 17 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.039% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.042% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 21
10th Percentile £390 £250 £359
25th Percentile £450 £288 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -41.95% +100.00%
75th Percentile £555 £750 £1,163
90th Percentile £558 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £750 £413
% change year-on-year -26.00% +81.82% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 29,261 40,308 53,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.99% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,659 25,937 37,084
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,814 1,558
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%
75th Percentile £55.25 £63.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%

Linux Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Linux Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Developer.

Daily rate trend for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Developer over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Work from Home +70 46 - - 14
UK excluding London +67 34 £555 -26.00% 5
Scotland +27 31 - -
England +67 23 £550 +69.23% 18
London +58 20 £350 +40.00% 14
South East +35 1 £560 +9.59% 1
East of England +26 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -

Linux Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Linux Developer 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 featuring Linux Developer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 38 (70.37%) Java
3 35 (64.81%) SQL
4 32 (59.26%) Python
5 28 (51.85%) Spring
6 27 (50.00%) Banking
7 26 (48.15%) Investment Banking
7 26 (48.15%) SDLC
8 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
9 21 (38.89%) Multithreading
10 19 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (35.19%) Relational Database
11 18 (33.33%) Data Structures
11 18 (33.33%) Agile
11 18 (33.33%) Finance
12 16 (29.63%) Shell Script
12 16 (29.63%) DB2
12 16 (29.63%) Kafka
13 15 (27.78%) MongoDB
13 15 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (27.78%) JUnit
13 15 (27.78%) C++
13 15 (27.78%) Sybase
13 15 (27.78%) JMS
13 15 (27.78%) Equities
13 15 (27.78%) Database Tuning
13 15 (27.78%) Open Source
14 13 (24.07%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes

Linux Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.85%) IBM HTTP Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.85%) Azure
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.85%) GCP
2 1 (1.85%) SaaS
2 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.70%) SAN
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) LAN
3 1 (1.85%) SMS
3 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.19%) Relational Database
2 16 (29.63%) DB2
3 15 (27.78%) MongoDB
4 11 (20.37%) KDB
4 11 (20.37%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) JUnit
2 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 27 (50.00%) Banking
2 26 (48.15%) Investment Banking
3 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
4 18 (33.33%) Finance
5 15 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (51.85%) Spring
2 16 (29.63%) Kafka
3 15 (27.78%) JMS
4 1 (1.85%) HTML
4 1 (1.85%) JSON
4 1 (1.85%) Node.js
4 1 (1.85%) React
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) RESTful
4 1 (1.85%) SOAP
4 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 15 (27.78%) Equities
3 13 (24.07%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (18.52%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) FPGA
6 1 (1.85%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (20.37%) Windows
3 7 (12.96%) Unix
4 2 (3.70%) Debian
4 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.85%) AIX
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) SDLC
2 21 (38.89%) Multithreading
3 19 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (33.33%) Agile
5 15 (27.78%) Database Tuning
5 15 (27.78%) Open Source
5 15 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (20.37%) Containerisation
7 10 (18.52%) Data Science
8 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
10 4 (7.41%) Design Patterns
11 3 (5.56%) Computer Science
12 2 (3.70%) Configuration Management
12 2 (3.70%) Data Engineering
12 2 (3.70%) Data Modelling
12 2 (3.70%) ITIL
12 2 (3.70%) Prototyping
12 2 (3.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 1 (1.85%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 38 (70.37%) Java
2 35 (64.81%) SQL
3 32 (59.26%) Python
4 16 (29.63%) Shell Script
5 15 (27.78%) C++
6 2 (3.70%) C
7 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) Sybase
2 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) Splunk
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