Linux Contracts in West London

Linux
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 26 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.38% 6.20% 5.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.83% 50.00% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 22
10th Percentile £490 £174 £432
25th Percentile £588 £250 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £488 £544
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -10.34% -9.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £638
90th Percentile - £553 £673
London median daily rate £588 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +3.98% -9.60% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £64.85
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £62.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -28.80% -16.67% +42.86%

All Operating Systems
West 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 24 44 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 11.43% 12.39% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 55
10th Percentile £243 £220 £159
25th Percentile £338 £250 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +25.00%
75th Percentile £466 £525 £575
90th Percentile £750 £538 £638
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile £15.83 £18.08 £64.95
25th Percentile £16.70 £22.68 -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £28.15 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.60% -62.47% +265.85%
75th Percentile £23.57 £36.07 -
90th Percentile £26.83 £47.17 £85.00
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West London

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in West London

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in West London

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in West London

Linux
Contract Job Locations in West 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 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
Hammersmith -3 1 - - 2
Harrow - 1 £450 -
Wembley - 1 - - 1
Linux
London

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) DECT
3 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) BPMN
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (40.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Mitel
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (20.00%) Veeam
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas