Linux Support Contracts

Linux Support
UK

The median Linux Support daily rate in the UK is £475, 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 504 563 676
Rank change year-on-year +59 +113 +154
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 16 19 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.044% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.047% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 32
10th Percentile £366 - £402
25th Percentile £421 £235 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £333 £600
Median % change year-on-year +42.64% -44.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £572 £350 £700
90th Percentile £600 £540 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £240 £325
% change year-on-year +85.42% -26.15% -19.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £20.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - -

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 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 Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux Support in the UK

Linux Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Support in the UK

Linux Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Support over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Support in the UK

Linux Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux Support in the UK

Linux Support
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 Support 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
UK excluding London +68 13 £445 +85.42% 6
England +58 13 £475 +97.92% 11
Work from Home +45 9 £475 +39.09% 3
South West - 7 - - 1
London +35 3 £550 +7.32% 8
Scotland +14 3 £415 +22.06%
Midlands - 2 £475 -
West Midlands - 2 £475 -
North of England +18 1 £350 +47.37% 1
North East - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (62.50%) Red Hat
3 9 (56.25%) Shell Script
4 8 (50.00%) Ubuntu
5 7 (43.75%) Middleware
5 7 (43.75%) Ada
5 7 (43.75%) C
5 7 (43.75%) C++
5 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
5 7 (43.75%) Unix
5 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
6 6 (37.50%) VMware
6 6 (37.50%) Python
6 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (31.25%) Oracle
7 5 (31.25%) ITIL
8 4 (25.00%) Finance
8 4 (25.00%) Ansible
8 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 3 (18.75%) Terraform
9 3 (18.75%) Grafana
9 3 (18.75%) Client Onboarding
9 3 (18.75%) FIX Connectivity
9 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
9 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
9 3 (18.75%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (18.75%) Bash
9 3 (18.75%) ZABBIX
9 3 (18.75%) Veritas Cluster Server

Linux Support 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) FIX Connectivity
1 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
2 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (18.75%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Eurex
2 1 (6.25%) Bitcoin
2 1 (6.25%) Equities
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 7 (43.75%) Unix
4 3 (18.75%) CentOS
5 2 (12.50%) AIX
5 2 (12.50%) Rocky
6 1 (6.25%) Debian
6 1 (6.25%) Fedora
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Solaris
6 1 (6.25%) SUSE
6 1 (6.25%) VMS
6 1 (6.25%) Windows
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 8
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Client Onboarding
3 3 (18.75%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (12.50%) ITSM
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Service Management
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
5 1 (6.25%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (6.25%) Change Management
5 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.25%) JVM Tuning
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Observability
5 1 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Shell Script
2 7 (43.75%) Ada
2 7 (43.75%) C
2 7 (43.75%) C++
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 6 (37.50%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) Perl
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 3 (18.75%) Rundeck
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) ZABBIX
3 2 (12.50%) Tivoli
3 2 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Oracle
4 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg
4 3 (18.75%) CQG
4 3 (18.75%) ION Trading
4 3 (18.75%) Patsystems
4 3 (18.75%) Reuters
4 3 (18.75%) Splunk
4 3 (18.75%) Trayport
4 3 (18.75%) Veritas
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
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