Linux Developer Contract Job Trends

Linux Developer
UK

The median Linux Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 563 579
Rank change year-on-year +59 +16 +238
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Developer 55 10 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.026% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.028% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 25
10th Percentile £380 £583 £413
25th Percentile £425 £594 £1,000
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £1,125
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -44.44% +116.35%
75th Percentile £530 £644 £1,163
90th Percentile £548 £648 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 29,996 35,551 46,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,952 21,923 31,999
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,570 1,683 1,490
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +93.18%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux Developer job vacancies in the UK

Linux Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Developer over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Developer in the UK

Linux Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Linux Developer job vacancies in the UK

Linux Developer
Top 7 Contract Job 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 17 September 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 +52 46 - - 4
England +55 33 £500 -20.00% 6
London +53 31 £350 -44.00% 5
UK excluding London +18 24 £530 - 2
Scotland - 22 - -
East of England 0 1 £500 - 1
South East - 1 £560 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 41 (74.55%) Java
3 35 (63.64%) SQL
4 33 (60.00%) Spring
5 28 (50.91%) Python
6 27 (49.09%) Finance
7 26 (47.27%) Social Skills
8 24 (43.64%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (41.82%) Banking
10 22 (40.00%) Investment Banking
10 22 (40.00%) SDLC
11 21 (38.18%) Kafka
11 21 (38.18%) Relational Database
12 20 (36.36%) Data Structures
13 19 (34.55%) Agile
13 19 (34.55%) Multithreading
14 18 (32.73%) Shell Script
14 18 (32.73%) DB2
15 17 (30.91%) Open Source
15 17 (30.91%) MongoDB
15 17 (30.91%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
15 17 (30.91%) JUnit
15 17 (30.91%) JMS
15 17 (30.91%) Database Tuning
15 17 (30.91%) Sybase
15 17 (30.91%) Equities
16 15 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
17 14 (25.45%) C++
18 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering

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 (1.82%) IBM HTTP Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.09%) AWS
1 5 (9.09%) Azure
2 4 (7.27%) GCP
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.82%) LAN
2 1 (1.82%) SAN
2 1 (1.82%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) Relational Database
2 18 (32.73%) DB2
3 17 (30.91%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.91%) KDB
4 6 (10.91%) Kdb+
5 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) JUnit
2 1 (1.82%) Git
General
1 27 (49.09%) Finance
2 26 (47.27%) Social Skills
3 23 (41.82%) Banking
4 22 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 17 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (60.00%) Spring
2 21 (38.18%) Kafka
3 17 (30.91%) JMS
4 4 (7.27%) HTML
4 4 (7.27%) Node.js
4 4 (7.27%) React
5 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.45%) CSS
5 3 (5.45%) Electron
5 3 (5.45%) JNI
6 1 (1.82%) JSON
6 1 (1.82%) SOAP
6 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (36.36%) Data Structures
2 17 (30.91%) Equities
3 15 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.45%) FPGA
5 3 (5.45%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Unix
3 6 (10.91%) Windows
4 3 (5.45%) CentOS
4 3 (5.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.82%) AIX
5 1 (1.82%) Debian
5 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (40.00%) SDLC
3 19 (34.55%) Agile
3 19 (34.55%) Multithreading
4 17 (30.91%) Database Tuning
4 17 (30.91%) Open Source
4 17 (30.91%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
6 5 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 5 (9.09%) Data Science
7 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.27%) Low Latency
8 3 (5.45%) AOP
8 3 (5.45%) Business Analysis
8 3 (5.45%) Computer Science
8 3 (5.45%) Design Patterns
8 3 (5.45%) Event-Driven
8 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (5.45%) Roadmaps
9 1 (1.82%) Biotechnology
Programming Languages
1 41 (74.55%) Java
2 35 (63.64%) SQL
3 28 (50.91%) Python
4 18 (32.73%) Shell Script
5 14 (25.45%) C++
6 7 (12.73%) C
7 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.45%) Perl
8 1 (1.82%) C#
8 1 (1.82%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.82%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Lustre
2 1 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.82%) Ansible
2 1 (1.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Sybase
2 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.82%) IBM
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.82%) VMware