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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 14 October 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
14 Oct 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-2 |
-4 |
-1 |
| Contract jobs citing Linux |
6,383 |
8,435 |
8,935 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
7.47% |
8.25% |
9.08% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
36.02% |
39.70% |
43.56% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
3,943 |
5,404 |
5,810 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£500 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£323 |
£325 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£663 |
£644 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+1.19% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
191 |
205 |
234 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£44.50 |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+4.71% |
+6.25% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£20.00 |
£17.50 |
£22.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.75 |
£52.80 |
£50.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£42.50 |
£41.15 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.53% |
+3.28% |
+2.88% |
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 |
17,720 |
21,246 |
20,514 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.75% |
20.79% |
20.84% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
11,030 |
13,106 |
12,926 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£425 |
| 10th Percentile |
£150 |
£163 |
£176 |
| 90th Percentile |
£613 |
£608 |
£590 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£400 |
£388 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.23% |
+3.33% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,241 |
1,504 |
1,224 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£11.00 |
£10.90 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£47.50 |
£47.83 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£16.50 |
£16.81 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.03% |
-1.81% |
+5.03% |
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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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 |
2,200 (34.47%) |
DevOps |
| 2 |
2,011 (31.51%) |
Python |
| 3 |
1,883 (29.50%) |
Windows |
| 4 |
1,879 (29.44%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 5 |
1,864 (29.20%) |
AWS |
| 6 |
1,575 (24.67%) |
Java |
| 7 |
1,439 (22.54%) |
Unix |
| 8 |
1,409 (22.07%) |
Docker |
| 9 |
1,358 (21.28%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,272 (19.93%) |
Git (software) |
| 11 |
1,238 (19.40%) |
Jenkins |
| 12 |
1,151 (18.03%) |
Security Cleared |
| 13 |
1,115 (17.47%) |
SQL |
| 14 |
1,081 (16.94%) |
Terraform |
| 15 |
1,052 (16.48%) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
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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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