SELinux Contracts

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SELinux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SELinux over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 570 674
Rank change year-on-year +33 +104 +190
Contract jobs citing SELinux 16 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.024% 0.020%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 5
10th Percentile £400 £406 £555
25th Percentile £484 £431 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -32.14% +71.78%
75th Percentile £650 £536 £800
90th Percentile - £546 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £700
% change year-on-year +15.79% -32.14% +71.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SELinux falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,080 5,399 8,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 12.79% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,355 3,815 6,093
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -5.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £675
90th Percentile £695 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.80% -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 91 184
10th Percentile £13.75 £17.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.16 £25.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -45.22% +143.95%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.63 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.46 £71.25 £84.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £40.00 £46.09
% change year-on-year +47.50% -13.21% +130.45%

SELinux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SELinux over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SELinux in the UK

SELinux
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SELinux within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 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 +62 15 £550 +15.79% 7
London +40 8 £650 +8.33%
UK excluding London +21 7 £550 +15.79% 8
Work from Home +31 6 £475 -6.40% 3
North West - 3 - - 1
North of England - 3 - - 1
South East +28 2 £550 +15.79% 1
South West +47 1 £475 -5.00% 1
Midlands +3 1 - - 1
West Midlands -1 1 - - 1

SELinux
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) DHCP
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) NAS
4 2 (12.50%) SSL
4 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
5 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Eclipse
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Solaris
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps
1 4 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 3 (18.75%) High Availability
2 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
2 3 (18.75%) Server Management
2 3 (18.75%) Use Case
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (12.50%) Information Management
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 2 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Risk Register
3 2 (12.50%) SABSA
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) C++
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CISSP
3 3 (18.75%) RHCSA
4 2 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (12.50%) CASP
4 2 (12.50%) CCSP
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) CREST Certified
4 2 (12.50%) CSSLP
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (12.50%) GIAC
4 2 (12.50%) RHCE
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (6.25%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) NCSC
2 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) iptables
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) NFS
3 1 (6.25%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 2 (12.50%) Symantec
3 2 (12.50%) Veritas
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft