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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 20 July 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Linux UK |
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6 months to
20 Jul 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
11 |
12 |
11 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+1 |
-1 |
+7 |
| Contract jobs citing Linux |
8,837 |
8,837 |
10,491 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
8.48% |
9.28% |
9.53% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
40.89% |
44.88% |
42.63% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,718 |
5,828 |
7,005 |
| UK median daily rate |
£490 |
£463 |
£442 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.95% |
+4.64% |
+7.15% |
| 10th Percentile |
£319 |
£315 |
£300 |
| 90th Percentile |
£644 |
£613 |
£592 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£440 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.53% |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
226 |
172 |
240 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£41.75 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+4.38% |
- |
+8.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£14.75 |
£23.78 |
£18.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£55.44 |
£51.66 |
£49.46 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£41.50 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.75% |
- |
+6.67% |
Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.
| All Operating Systems UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills |
21,609 |
19,689 |
24,611 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.74% |
20.67% |
22.35% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
13,525 |
12,421 |
15,471 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£180 |
£195 |
£210 |
| 90th Percentile |
£613 |
£588 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£390 |
£400 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.50% |
+6.67% |
+7.14% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,475 |
1,141 |
1,328 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£16.50 |
£16.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.06% |
- |
+2.10% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£10.50 |
£10.59 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.50 |
£47.50 |
£45.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.00 |
£15.50 |
£16.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.23% |
-6.06% |
+4.10% |
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Linux
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Linux as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Linux.
Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 20 July 2018.
Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 20 July 2018.
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Top 17 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 20 July 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 20 July 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Linux also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Linux.
| 1 |
2,966 (33.56%) |
DevOps |
| 2 |
2,703 (30.59%) |
Python |
| 3 |
2,678 (30.30%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 4 |
2,517 (28.48%) |
Java |
| 5 |
2,438 (27.59%) |
Unix |
| 6 |
2,371 (26.83%) |
Windows |
| 7 |
2,247 (25.43%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 8 |
2,242 (25.37%) |
Jenkins |
| 9 |
2,023 (22.89%) |
Git (software) |
| 10 |
1,907 (21.58%) |
Docker |
| 11 |
1,822 (20.62%) |
Ansible |
| 12 |
1,788 (20.23%) |
Puppet |
| 13 |
1,667 (18.86%) |
SQL |
| 14 |
1,487 (16.83%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 15 |
1,469 (16.62%) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
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| 16 |
1,423 (16.10%) |
Finance |
| 17 |
1,407 (15.92%) |
Configuration Management |
| 18 |
1,343 (15.20%) |
Oracle |
| 19 |
1,337 (15.13%) |
Bash Shell |
| 20 |
1,262 (14.28%) |
Red Hat |
| 21 |
1,237 (14.00%) |
JavaScript |
| 22 |
1,185 (13.41%) |
Security Cleared |
| 23 |
1,084 (12.27%) |
Terraform |
| 24 |
1,055 (11.94%) |
Opscode Chef |
| 25 |
1,043 (11.80%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 26 |
972 (11.00%) |
Kubernetes |
| 27 |
967 (10.94%) |
VMware |
| 28 |
938 (10.61%) |
SC Cleared |
| 29 |
931 (10.54%) |
Test Automation |
| 30 |
921 (10.42%) |
Perl |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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