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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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
17 |
11 |
11 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-6 |
0 |
+7 |
| Contract jobs citing Linux |
8,705 |
9,189 |
9,482 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
8.26% |
8.90% |
9.23% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
39.40% |
42.75% |
43.68% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,540 |
6,036 |
6,352 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£319 |
£310 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
+6.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
190 |
248 |
214 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£43.00 |
£40.65 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.77% |
+1.63% |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£21.42 |
£21.25 |
£15.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.55 |
£50.40 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£41.50 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.02% |
+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 |
22,093 |
21,493 |
21,708 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.96% |
20.82% |
21.14% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
13,699 |
13,722 |
13,678 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£163 |
£170 |
£193 |
| 90th Percentile |
£600 |
£600 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£390 |
£375 |
£365 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.00% |
+2.74% |
+0.69% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,490 |
1,276 |
1,287 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.43 |
£17.50 |
£16.29 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-0.40% |
+7.43% |
-1.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.00 |
£11.00 |
£10.61 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.50 |
£47.50 |
£44.35 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.50 |
£16.62 |
£15.63 |
| % change year-on-year |
-0.74% |
+6.38% |
-2.77% |
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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 13 December 2018.
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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 13 December 2018.
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Top 16 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 13 December 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 13 December 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 |
3,077 (35.35%) |
DevOps |
| 2 |
2,715 (31.19%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 3 |
2,596 (29.82%) |
Windows |
| 4 |
2,578 (29.62%) |
Python |
| 5 |
2,428 (27.89%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 6 |
2,348 (26.97%) |
Java |
| 7 |
2,266 (26.03%) |
Unix |
| 8 |
2,124 (24.40%) |
Jenkins |
| 9 |
2,067 (23.74%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,973 (22.67%) |
Git (software) |
| 11 |
1,889 (21.70%) |
Docker |
| 12 |
1,667 (19.15%) |
SQL |
| 13 |
1,648 (18.93%) |
Puppet |
| 14 |
1,559 (17.91%) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| 15 |
1,388 (15.94%) |
Finance |
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| 16 |
1,359 (15.61%) |
Red Hat |
| 17 |
1,310 (15.05%) |
Terraform |
| 18 |
1,301 (14.95%) |
Security Cleared |
| 19 |
1,300 (14.93%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 20 |
1,299 (14.92%) |
Oracle |
| 21 |
1,273 (14.62%) |
Configuration Management |
| 22 |
1,206 (13.85%) |
Bash Shell |
| 23 |
1,101 (12.65%) |
VMware |
| 24 |
1,099 (12.62%) |
Kubernetes |
| 25 |
1,089 (12.51%) |
JavaScript |
| 26 |
1,030 (11.83%) |
SC Cleared |
| 27 |
1,011 (11.61%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 28 |
1,003 (11.52%) |
Opscode Chef |
| 29 |
967 (11.11%) |
Test Automation |
| 30 |
918 (10.55%) |
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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