Linux Server Engineer Contracts

Linux Server Engineer
UK

The median Linux Server Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 692 849
Rank change year-on-year +124 +157 -158
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Server Engineer 18 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.010% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.011% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 10
10th Percentile £422 - £383
25th Percentile £550 £538 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £539 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +19.78% -
75th Percentile £650 £540 £475
90th Percentile - - £503
UK excluding London median daily rate £386 - £450

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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
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 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Linux Server Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Server Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Server Engineer in the UK

Linux Server Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Server Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +119 13 £600 +11.52%
London +103 12 £600 +11.52%
UK excluding London +69 5 £386 -
Scotland - 4 £340 -
Work from Home +112 1 - -
North of England - 1 £431 -
North East - 1 £431 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Linux Server 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 Server Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (77.78%) Jenkins
3 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
4 12 (66.67%) DV Cleared
4 12 (66.67%) Data Centre
4 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 11 (61.11%) Progress Chef
5 11 (61.11%) Puppet
5 11 (61.11%) HTTP
5 11 (61.11%) TCP/IP
5 11 (61.11%) SSL
6 5 (27.78%) Python
6 5 (27.78%) Finance
7 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
7 4 (22.22%) Agile
8 3 (16.67%) Marketing
8 3 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (16.67%) Programme Management
8 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (16.67%) Electronics
8 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (16.67%) Perl
8 3 (16.67%) SAP
8 3 (16.67%) DevOps
8 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
9 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
9 2 (11.11%) Server Management
9 2 (11.11%) DHCP
9 2 (11.11%) DNS

Linux Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) HTTP
1 11 (61.11%) SSL
1 11 (61.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) AMQP
3 1 (5.56%) DMZ
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) Modbus
3 1 (5.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 3 (16.67%) Electronics
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Dutch Language
5 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) Redfish
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
1 1 (5.56%) XML
1 1 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Solaris
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 2 (11.11%) Server Management
5 1 (5.56%) Compliance Management
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (5.56%) CRUD
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Observability
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Management
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Security Management
5 1 (5.56%) Server Building
5 1 (5.56%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) Go
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) RHCE
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) KVM
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Progress Chef
1 11 (61.11%) Puppet
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat