systemd
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for systemd skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited systemd over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 685 844
Rank change year-on-year +103 +159 -
Contract jobs citing systemd 3 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.014% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.059% 0.086% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £311 £404
25th Percentile £425 £320 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £475
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -31.58% -
75th Percentile £475 £375 £516
90th Percentile - £465 £536
UK excluding London median daily rate - £325 £550
% change year-on-year - -40.91% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

systemd is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,066 9,287 14,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 15.99% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,693 10,163
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 211 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%

systemd
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for systemd in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for systemd in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing systemd within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +98 3 £450 +38.46% 2
London +89 3 £450 -14.29% 2

systemd
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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Support
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Support
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) tcsh
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP