Linux Contracts in West Sussex

Linux
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 20 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 28 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 4.79% 10.73% 9.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.95% 38.89% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 26
10th Percentile £516 £283 £263
25th Percentile £522 £463 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £308
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +54.47% -24.54%
75th Percentile £738 £578 £438
90th Percentile - £588 £583
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -4.62% +22.91%

All Operating Systems
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 39 72 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 26.71% 27.59% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 58 57
10th Percentile £193 £200 £200
25th Percentile £198 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £450 £331
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +35.95% -18.27%
75th Percentile £533 £488 £575
90th Percentile £721 £579 £585
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £16.37 - -
25th Percentile £16.95 £36.75 £10.75
Median hourly rate £18.82 £38.50 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.12% +234.78% -78.50%
75th Percentile £20.69 £40.25 £12.25
90th Percentile £21.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in West Sussex

Linux
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Worthing +10 4 £538 +13.16% 1
Crawley -5 3 £725 +31.82% 11
Linux
South East

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 2 (28.57%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Test Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Solaris
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Component Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (42.86%) Data-Driven Testing
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Test Management
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (28.57%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
1 2 (28.57%) Sybase
1 2 (28.57%) Symantec
1 2 (28.57%) Veritas
1 2 (28.57%) VMware