Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 554 694
Rank change year-on-year +55 +140 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 21 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.064% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.069% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 15
10th Percentile - £360 £325
25th Percentile £278 £421 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +3.96% +6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £573
90th Percentile - £685 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £568 £520
% change year-on-year -11.01% +9.24% +15.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 11 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 1 May 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
England +60 19 £470 -10.48% 3
UK excluding London +60 14 £505 -11.01% 2
North of England +23 6 £550 +8.91%
London +33 5 £470 -6.00% 2
Midlands +26 5 - -
West Midlands +18 5 - -
Yorkshire +11 4 £550 +8.91%
Work from Home +30 3 £385 -26.67%
North West +18 2 £385 -
South East - 2 - - 1
South West +45 1 £460 -23.33% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (95.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (71.43%) Windows
4 14 (66.67%) Windows Server
5 12 (57.14%) VMware
6 10 (47.62%) Bash
7 9 (42.86%) SAN
8 8 (38.10%) NAS
8 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
8 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (38.10%) Storage Management
9 7 (33.33%) Server Management
9 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
9 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
9 7 (33.33%) Python
10 6 (28.57%) DNS
10 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
11 5 (23.81%) Finance
11 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
11 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
11 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
11 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
12 4 (19.05%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
12 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
12 4 (19.05%) DevOps
12 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
12 4 (19.05%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (19.05%) Accessibility

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 3 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) SAN
2 8 (38.10%) NAS
3 6 (28.57%) DNS
4 4 (19.05%) LAN
5 3 (14.29%) DHCP
5 3 (14.29%) Firewall
5 3 (14.29%) SSL
6 2 (9.52%) BIG-IP
6 2 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (4.76%) HTTP
7 1 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Maven
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Electronics
4 4 (19.05%) Marketing
4 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (19.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (71.43%) Windows
3 14 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Debian
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Storage Management
3 7 (33.33%) Server Management
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
4 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Security Management
5 3 (14.29%) SOA
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (9.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Bash
2 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Perl
4 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (19.05%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) SELinux
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Nessus
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco
2 4 (19.05%) Dell
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.52%) F5
5 1 (4.76%) Sophos