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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 February 2019 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 Feb 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
14 |
11 |
12 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-3 |
+1 |
+3 |
| Contract jobs citing Linux |
8,210 |
8,729 |
8,823 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
8.28% |
8.60% |
9.26% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
39.92% |
41.60% |
44.16% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,249 |
5,795 |
5,955 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£488 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.56% |
+8.33% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£325 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
174 |
214 |
216 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£41.00 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+9.76% |
+2.50% |
+2.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£24.23 |
£16.65 |
£18.42 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.38 |
£57.50 |
£51.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£42.00 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.14% |
+5.00% |
+3.90% |
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 |
20,565 |
20,985 |
19,980 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.73% |
20.66% |
20.97% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
12,874 |
13,427 |
12,605 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£410 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+3.66% |
+2.50% |
| 10th Percentile |
£158 |
£170 |
£193 |
| 90th Percentile |
£600 |
£613 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£400 |
£394 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.52% |
+5.07% |
+2.74% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,312 |
1,279 |
1,276 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£17.00 |
£16.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+3.03% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.00 |
£11.00 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.83 |
£47.83 |
£46.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.00 |
£16.00 |
£15.93 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+0.44% |
-3.45% |
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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.
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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 20 February 2019.
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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 February 2019.
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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 February 2019. 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 February 2019, 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 |
2,982 (36.32%) |
DevOps |
| 2 |
2,572 (31.33%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 3 |
2,538 (30.91%) |
Python |
| 4 |
2,392 (29.14%) |
Windows |
| 5 |
2,362 (28.77%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 6 |
2,191 (26.69%) |
Java |
| 7 |
2,103 (25.62%) |
Unix |
| 8 |
2,069 (25.20%) |
Jenkins |
| 9 |
1,924 (23.43%) |
Git (software) |
| 10 |
1,864 (22.70%) |
Ansible |
| 11 |
1,764 (21.49%) |
Docker |
| 12 |
1,514 (18.44%) |
Puppet |
| 13 |
1,490 (18.15%) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| 14 |
1,482 (18.05%) |
SQL |
| 15 |
1,339 (16.31%) |
Security Cleared |
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| 16 |
1,279 (15.58%) |
Red Hat |
| 17 |
1,260 (15.35%) |
Configuration Management |
| 18 |
1,239 (15.09%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 19 |
1,220 (14.86%) |
Finance |
| 20 |
1,218 (14.84%) |
Terraform |
| 21 |
1,209 (14.73%) |
Oracle |
| 22 |
1,190 (14.49%) |
Bash Shell |
| 23 |
1,059 (12.90%) |
SC Cleared |
| 24 |
1,054 (12.84%) |
JavaScript |
| 25 |
1,044 (12.72%) |
Kubernetes |
| 26 |
1,025 (12.48%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 27 |
960 (11.69%) |
VMware |
| 28 |
949 (11.56%) |
Test Automation |
| 29 |
899 (10.95%) |
Opscode Chef |
| 30 |
826 (10.06%) |
Microsoft |
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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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