Linux
UK

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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 26 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 2,940 5,661 5,806
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.55% 7.37% 6.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.38% 45.29% 41.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 3,828 4,048
10th Percentile £350 £406 £388
25th Percentile £450 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +5.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £490
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.20% +13.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 195 130
10th Percentile £29.25 £38.26 £37.75
25th Percentile £49.24 £52.75 £45.84
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £72.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.75 £79.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £57.25
% change year-on-year -1.54% +13.54% +33.92%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,777 12,500 13,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.10% 16.28% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,614 8,587 9,640
10th Percentile £183 £185 £163
25th Percentile £300 £345 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +4.59% +13.25%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £588
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -0.28% +12.50% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 559 726
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.16 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +38.89% -2.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.22
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.50 £62.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% +32.35% -1.85%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in the UK

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in the UK

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Linux in the UK

Linux
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 7 December 2023. 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 0 2,455 £550 -6.38% 1,599
UK excluding London -3 1,429 £525 -2.78% 1,135
London +1 1,212 £595 -4.03% 599
Work from Home -2 1,060 £525 -9.48% 991
South East +6 381 £525 -4.55% 345
South West +1 299 £550 -4.35% 171
Scotland +7 232 £563 +6.79% 99
North of England -30 187 £509 -7.50% 230
East of England +2 150 £461 -2.89% 164
Midlands -5 145 £500 -7.06% 111
North West -24 113 £519 +3.75% 127
West Midlands -11 104 £488 -9.39% 61
Yorkshire -19 70 £500 -9.09% 87
East Midlands +32 39 £550 +2.61% 50
Wales +13 34 £513 -2.38% 18
Northern Ireland +2 12 £400 -27.67% 16
North East -18 3 £445 -25.83% 20

Linux
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
1 234 (7.96%) Confluence
2 120 (4.08%) Apache
3 99 (3.37%) nginx
4 61 (2.07%) OpenStack
5 59 (2.01%) Tomcat
6 55 (1.87%) IIS
7 51 (1.73%) SharePoint
8 32 (1.09%) Apache Spark
9 27 (0.92%) WebSphere
10 24 (0.82%) CMS
11 23 (0.78%) SAS
12 19 (0.65%) MS Exchange
13 18 (0.61%) WebLogic
14 14 (0.48%) JBoss
14 14 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
15 13 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
16 10 (0.34%) Jupyter
17 5 (0.17%) MTS
17 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 5 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 42 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.20%) CATIA
4 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.10%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.034%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.034%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.034%) Simulink
6 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (0.51%) Exstream
1 15 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.37%) ION MarketView
3 9 (0.31%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.20%) DELMIA
4 6 (0.20%) ENOVIA
4 6 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.17%) Misys Midas
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.14%) Shopify
7 3 (0.10%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.068%) assyst
8 2 (0.068%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.068%) Magento
8 2 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.068%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.068%) RMDS
8 2 (0.068%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.034%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 780 (26.53%) AWS
2 653 (22.21%) Azure
3 196 (6.67%) GCP
4 174 (5.92%) GitHub
5 128 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 87 (2.96%) OpenShift
8 86 (2.93%) Amazon S3
9 85 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 81 (2.76%) PaaS
11 75 (2.55%) SaaS
11 75 (2.55%) Serverless
12 74 (2.52%) IaaS
13 73 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
14 69 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
15 66 (2.24%) Entra ID
16 55 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 53 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
18 46 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
19 44 (1.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 331 (11.26%) Firewall
2 225 (7.65%) DNS
3 182 (6.19%) TCP/IP
4 146 (4.97%) SAN
5 111 (3.78%) VPN
6 98 (3.33%) DHCP
7 96 (3.27%) HTTP
8 84 (2.86%) Network Security
9 79 (2.69%) WAN
10 75 (2.55%) VLAN
11 68 (2.31%) Wireless
12 65 (2.21%) LAN
13 59 (2.01%) NAS
14 54 (1.84%) SSL
15 46 (1.56%) Internet
15 46 (1.56%) IPv4
16 42 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
17 38 (1.29%) BGP
18 37 (1.26%) SSH
19 36 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 166 (5.65%) MySQL
3 152 (5.17%) Relational Database
4 96 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (2.55%) Big Data
5 75 (2.55%) Oracle Database
6 67 (2.28%) MongoDB
7 54 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 51 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.16%) Data Lake
12 33 (1.12%) DB2
13 31 (1.05%) RDBMS
14 26 (0.88%) Power BI
15 25 (0.85%) MariaDB
16 23 (0.78%) Hadoop
16 23 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
17 19 (0.65%) Metadata
17 19 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 379 (12.89%) Git
2 343 (11.67%) Jenkins
3 300 (10.20%) JIRA
4 152 (5.17%) Bitbucket
5 114 (3.88%) GitLab
6 82 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 59 (2.01%) Artifactory
8 39 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 38 (1.29%) Selenium
10 34 (1.16%) Visual Studio
11 30 (1.02%) Robot Framework
12 28 (0.95%) Liquibase
12 28 (0.95%) TeamCity
13 27 (0.92%) Maven
14 25 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
15 24 (0.82%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.82%) Postman
16 20 (0.68%) Cucumber
16 20 (0.68%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.65%) Gradle
General
1 534 (18.16%) Finance
2 529 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 279 (9.49%) Banking
4 266 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 176 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.46%) Investment Banking
7 93 (3.16%) Telecoms
8 66 (2.24%) Front Office
9 49 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (1.56%) Electronics
10 46 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 39 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 37 (1.26%) Aerospace
14 34 (1.16%) Marketing
14 34 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 31 (1.05%) Legal
16 31 (1.05%) Retail
17 28 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 420 (14.29%) Developer
2 348 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 282 (9.59%) Senior
4 256 (8.71%) Linux Engineer
5 185 (6.29%) Architect
6 180 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 152 (5.17%) Administrator
8 144 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 127 (4.32%) Analyst
10 125 (4.25%) Support Engineer
11 105 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 102 (3.47%) Lead
12 102 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
13 97 (3.30%) Consultant
14 96 (3.27%) Systems Administrator
15 88 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
16 75 (2.55%) C++ Developer
17 74 (2.52%) Azure Engineer
17 74 (2.52%) Python Developer
18 72 (2.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (4.49%) REST
2 128 (4.35%) Kafka
3 105 (3.57%) Middleware
4 92 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
5 88 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
6 85 (2.89%) .NET
7 81 (2.76%) HTML
7 81 (2.76%) JSON
8 74 (2.52%) LDAP
9 73 (2.48%) Web Services
10 70 (2.38%) XML
11 64 (2.18%) RESTful
12 58 (1.97%) SOAP
13 50 (1.70%) CSS
13 50 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
13 50 (1.70%) Spring
14 41 (1.39%) React
15 37 (1.26%) Django
16 36 (1.22%) Spring Boot
17 29 (0.99%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 223 (7.59%) Data Centre
2 115 (3.91%) Public Cloud
3 109 (3.71%) Management Information System
4 98 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 86 (2.93%) PKI
6 80 (2.72%) Derivative
7 77 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (2.35%) Private Cloud
9 59 (2.01%) Virtual Team
10 58 (1.97%) Algorithms
11 53 (1.80%) Clustering
12 49 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 45 (1.53%) Replication
14 44 (1.50%) Client/Server
15 43 (1.46%) Cloud Native
16 40 (1.36%) Data Structures
17 37 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
18 36 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
19 34 (1.16%) Product Ownership
20 30 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,138 (38.71%) Windows
2 622 (21.16%) Unix
3 526 (17.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 329 (11.19%) Windows Server
5 172 (5.85%) Ubuntu
6 127 (4.32%) Solaris
7 110 (3.74%) CentOS
8 74 (2.52%) Debian
9 62 (2.11%) AIX
10 51 (1.73%) Oracle Linux
10 51 (1.73%) Windows 10
11 50 (1.70%) Mac OS
12 48 (1.63%) Android
13 47 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
14 46 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
15 43 (1.46%) VMS
15 43 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
16 38 (1.29%) Apple iOS
17 34 (1.16%) SUSE
18 22 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (27.11%) DevOps
2 681 (23.16%) Agile
3 552 (18.78%) CI/CD
4 335 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 333 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (10.58%) Software Engineering
7 305 (10.37%) Migration
8 234 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 219 (7.45%) Configuration Management
10 218 (7.41%) Containerisation
10 218 (7.41%) ITIL
11 209 (7.11%) Test Automation
12 201 (6.84%) Change Management
13 190 (6.46%) High Availability
14 169 (5.75%) Continuous Integration
15 164 (5.58%) Scrum
16 158 (5.37%) Microservices
17 157 (5.34%) Cybersecurity
18 154 (5.24%) Platform Engineering
19 140 (4.76%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,049 (35.68%) Python
2 524 (17.82%) Java
3 461 (15.68%) Bash
4 392 (13.33%) SQL
5 337 (11.46%) PowerShell
6 271 (9.22%) C++
7 223 (7.59%) Shell Script
8 213 (7.24%) Perl
9 202 (6.87%) JavaScript
10 175 (5.95%) C
11 173 (5.88%) C#
12 132 (4.49%) Go
13 98 (3.33%) Ruby
14 37 (1.26%) Rust
15 34 (1.16%) PL/SQL
16 33 (1.12%) PHP
17 31 (1.05%) Scala
18 23 (0.78%) TypeScript
19 21 (0.71%) Embedded C
20 18 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 881 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 649 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 261 (8.88%) DV Cleared
4 236 (8.03%) Degree
5 75 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 71 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (1.26%) RHCSA
9 31 (1.05%) RHCE
10 26 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 25 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.71%) CCNA
13 20 (0.68%) CISSP
14 19 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 18 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 17 (0.58%) CCNP
17 13 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.41%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (2.96%) QA
2 41 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.22%) SLA
4 25 (0.85%) GDPR
5 24 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 22 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (0.61%) NIST
9 16 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 15 (0.51%) NCSC
11 14 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
14 8 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
14 8 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.20%) JTAG
17 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
18 4 (0.14%) GxP
18 4 (0.14%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 471 (16.02%) Docker
2 341 (11.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 293 (9.97%) Active Directory
4 104 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
5 81 (2.76%) vSphere
6 66 (2.24%) Firmware
6 66 (2.24%) Hyper-V
7 60 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
8 56 (1.90%) NFS
9 36 (1.22%) VMware NSX
10 32 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
12 22 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
13 18 (0.61%) KVM
14 17 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 13 (0.44%) Varnish
16 12 (0.41%) BitLocker
16 12 (0.41%) Ceph
16 12 (0.41%) Samba
17 9 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 629 (21.39%) Ansible
2 520 (17.69%) Kubernetes
3 477 (16.22%) Terraform
4 180 (6.12%) Puppet
5 155 (5.27%) Grafana
6 131 (4.46%) Prometheus
7 116 (3.95%) Packer
8 93 (3.16%) SCCM
9 89 (3.03%) Progress Chef
10 76 (2.59%) Nagios
11 63 (2.14%) ITRS Geneos
12 55 (1.87%) ZABBIX
13 52 (1.77%) Consul
14 46 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
15 40 (1.36%) NetBackup
16 39 (1.33%) Kibana
16 39 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
16 39 (1.33%) SCOM
17 34 (1.16%) PowerBroker
18 32 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 539 (18.33%) VMware
2 531 (18.06%) Red Hat
3 441 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 314 (10.68%) Oracle
5 145 (4.93%) Splunk
6 143 (4.86%) Atlassian
7 140 (4.76%) Cisco
8 123 (4.18%) IBM
9 115 (3.91%) HP
10 111 (3.78%) Google
11 84 (2.86%) Dell
12 78 (2.65%) ServiceNow
13 77 (2.62%) NetApp
14 76 (2.59%) Citrix
15 62 (2.11%) SAP
16 58 (1.97%) EMC
17 47 (1.60%) CyberArk
18 46 (1.56%) TOWER Software
18 46 (1.56%) Veritas
19 44 (1.50%) F5