Oracle Linux Contracts

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Oracle Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Linux over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 571 651
Rank change year-on-year +66 +80 +138
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 14 29 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.067% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.34% 0.50% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 45
10th Percentile £348 £420 £438
25th Percentile £381 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +6.84% +11.43%
75th Percentile £559 £688 £835
90th Percentile £576 £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% +23.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Operating Systems
UK

Oracle Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,075 5,812 9,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.94% 13.33% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,687 3,913 6,831
10th Percentile £200 £183 £190
25th Percentile £319 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 397 416
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% -29.60% +56.25%

Oracle Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Linux over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +47 9 £475 -24.00% 5
Work from Home +43 8 - - 2
London +26 6 £400 -23.81% 1
UK excluding London +48 4 £550 -21.43% 4
South East +42 1 £550 - 1
North of England +25 1 £350 - 1
Scotland +7 1 - -
North East -3 1 £350 -
South West - 1 £575 -

Oracle 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 4 (28.57%) CMS
2 3 (21.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Documentum
3 1 (7.14%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (7.14%) JBoss
3 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
3 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Sage X3
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) OCI
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.14%) NAS
2 1 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) General Ledger
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Military
5 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Documentum Specialist
1 3 (21.43%) Sage Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Unix Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Support
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Sage Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) LAMP
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) AIX
3 8 (57.14%) Windows
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (21.43%) Unix
6 2 (14.29%) Solaris
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (7.14%) CentOS
7 1 (7.14%) VMS
7 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Migration
2 7 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Process Management
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (7.14%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Measurement
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Server Migrations
5 1 (7.14%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
1 3 (21.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
4 1 (7.14%) Netcool
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Tivoli
4 1 (7.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) IBM
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Sage
3 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 3 (21.43%) Adobe
4 3 (21.43%) Siebel
5 2 (14.29%) Google
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
6 1 (7.14%) Actifio
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco
6 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
6 1 (7.14%) EMC
6 1 (7.14%) Isilon
6 1 (7.14%) Qualys
6 1 (7.14%) Serena
6 1 (7.14%) Splunk
6 1 (7.14%) Sybase