Linux Contracts in West End of London

Linux
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of London requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 1.45% - 6.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.69% - 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £538
25th Percentile - - £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £625
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £640 £575 £641
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.33% +11.52%

All Operating Systems
West End of London

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 in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13 4 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 18.84% 7.69% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £105 £113 £203
25th Percentile £448 £124 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £147 £375
Median % change year-on-year +295.90% -60.93% +66.67%
75th Percentile £600 £219 £638
90th Percentile - £260 £768
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West End of London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Linux in West End of London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in West End of London

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Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Holborn - 1 £580 -
Linux
Central London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London 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 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform