Linux Contracts in Westminster

Linux
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Westminster 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Westminster 7.14% - 14.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% - 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £650 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +62.50% -36.00% +4.17%

All Operating Systems
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2 0 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 14.29% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £290 - £215
25th Percentile £350 - £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £373
Median % change year-on-year - - +65.56%
75th Percentile £550 - £578
90th Percentile £610 - £638
City of Westminster median daily rate £638 £400 £388
% change year-on-year +59.38% +3.23% -8.82%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Westminster

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Westminster

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Westminster 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CASP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux