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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 9 April 2020 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
9 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
22 |
16 |
10 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-6 |
-6 |
+1 |
| Contract jobs citing Linux |
4,059 |
7,895 |
8,833 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK |
6.70% |
8.16% |
8.75% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
32.49% |
39.78% |
41.94% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
2,677 |
5,149 |
5,943 |
| Median daily rate |
£488 |
£500 |
£490 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-2.50% |
+2.04% |
+8.89% |
| 10th Percentile |
£318 |
£325 |
£325 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£650 |
£650 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£439 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+2.56% |
+3.24% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
125 |
180 |
193 |
| Median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£45.00 |
£42.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£20.20 |
£21.18 |
£14.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£55.00 |
£53.75 |
£62.20 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£45.00 |
£42.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
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 |
12,492 |
19,848 |
21,061 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.62% |
20.50% |
20.87% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,661 |
12,538 |
13,440 |
| Median daily rate |
£420 |
£425 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-1.18% |
- |
+2.41% |
| 10th Percentile |
£136 |
£158 |
£180 |
| 90th Percentile |
£609 |
£613 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£388 |
£400 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
-3.13% |
- |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,035 |
1,194 |
1,267 |
| Median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
£17.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+2.94% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.63 |
£11.17 |
£11.17 |
| 90th Percentile |
£48.75 |
£48.75 |
£47.50 |
| Median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£16.00 |
£15.86 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+0.88% |
-0.88% |
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Linux
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux.
Linux
Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux.
Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Linux over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
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Top 18 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 9 April 2020. 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 9 April 2020, 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.
Linux
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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