Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £445 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 681 817
Rank change year-on-year +125 +136 -144
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 26 22 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.038% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.040% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 19
10th Percentile - £325 -
25th Percentile £340 £415 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £512 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +13.83% -10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £580 £556
90th Percentile £685 £588 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £520 £445
% change year-on-year -18.67% +16.74% -2.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
UK excluding London +58 18 £423 -18.67% 8
England +90 13 £505 -1.42% 7
Scotland +50 13 £340 - 3
Work from Home +125 10 £600 +34.08% 6
London +100 8 £445 +11.19% 2
North of England +31 2 £505 +18.13% 1
South West +19 2 £600 -7.69% 1
Midlands +24 1 - - 2
North West +20 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +19 1 £505 -
West Midlands +18 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 featuring Linux Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (50.00%) Python
5 12 (46.15%) Red Hat
6 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
7 9 (34.62%) Perl
8 8 (30.77%) Finance
8 8 (30.77%) Docker
8 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
8 8 (30.77%) AWS
8 8 (30.77%) High Availability
8 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (26.92%) Azure
9 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
9 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
9 7 (26.92%) Unix
9 7 (26.92%) Windows
10 6 (23.08%) Banking
10 6 (23.08%) DevOps
11 5 (19.23%) Ansible
11 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
11 5 (19.23%) DNS
12 4 (15.38%) SLA
12 4 (15.38%) IBM
12 4 (15.38%) POSIX
12 4 (15.38%) Flash
12 4 (15.38%) NFS
12 4 (15.38%) EMC
12 4 (15.38%) RHCE

Linux Infrastructure Engineer 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 4 (15.38%) SAS
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) IaaS
3 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (11.54%) Cloudflare
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (15.38%) iSCSI
2 4 (15.38%) SAN
3 3 (11.54%) SMTP
4 2 (7.69%) DHCP
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Flash
1 4 (15.38%) POSIX
2 1 (3.85%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Client/Server
1 4 (15.38%) Clustering
1 4 (15.38%) NVMe
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Unix
3 7 (26.92%) Windows
4 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
5 4 (15.38%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (15.38%) Solaris
6 2 (7.69%) CentOS
6 2 (7.69%) Debian
6 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) High Availability
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Agile
4 4 (15.38%) Capacity Management
4 4 (15.38%) Compliance Management
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 4 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 4 (15.38%) Migration
4 4 (15.38%) Observability
4 4 (15.38%) OO
4 4 (15.38%) Preventative Maintenance
4 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 4 (15.38%) SDLC
4 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
5 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
5 3 (11.54%) Server Management
5 3 (11.54%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) Perl
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) PHP
5 2 (7.69%) C
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Korn
6 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) GPFS
2 4 (15.38%) KVM
2 4 (15.38%) NFS
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Puppet
3 4 (15.38%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (11.54%) Terraform
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 4 (15.38%) Brocade
2 4 (15.38%) EMC
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) IBM
2 4 (15.38%) NetApp
2 4 (15.38%) Sybase
2 4 (15.38%) Veritas
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) F5
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) Sun
4 1 (3.85%) TOWER Software