Linux Specialist Contracts

Linux Specialist
UK

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in the UK is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 686 833
Rank change year-on-year +123 +147 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 21 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.020% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.021% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 11
10th Percentile - £520 £413
25th Percentile £225 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% -12.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £472 £613 £640
90th Percentile £488 £674 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Linux Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Specialist in the UK

Linux Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Specialist in the UK

Linux Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Specialist over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Specialist in the UK

Linux Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Specialist in the UK

Linux Specialist
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 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 +96 20 £300 -45.45% 3
Work from Home +130 15 £250 -44.44% 1
London +92 12 £250 -65.23% 1
UK excluding London +29 8 £425 -22.73% 2
South West - 3 £475 - 1
North of England - 3 £425 -
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
South East +8 1 - -
North West - 1 £425 -
East of England - 1 £300 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 2024, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) Ansible
4 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
5 5 (23.81%) ITIL
5 5 (23.81%) Unix
5 5 (23.81%) Ubuntu
5 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
5 5 (23.81%) VMware
5 5 (23.81%) Security Patching
5 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (23.81%) Qualys
5 5 (23.81%) AWS
5 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
6 4 (19.05%) Rocky
7 3 (14.29%) EPoS
7 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (14.29%) Windows
7 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 3 (14.29%) LAN
7 3 (14.29%) WAN
7 3 (14.29%) Retail
7 3 (14.29%) Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management

Linux Specialist 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 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.52%) Route 53
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) LAN
1 3 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) EPoS
2 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Ubuntu
2 5 (23.81%) Unix
3 4 (19.05%) Rocky
4 3 (14.29%) Debian
4 3 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
1 5 (23.81%) ITIL
1 5 (23.81%) Security Patching
1 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 3 (14.29%) Logistics
2 3 (14.29%) Migration
2 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (9.52%) ITSM
3 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (4.76%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (4.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
2 2 (9.52%) Salt
3 1 (4.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 5 (23.81%) Qualys
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) SaltStack