Linux Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Linux Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 87 92
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.45% 0.21% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.23% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £575
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wiltshire with a recognized job title 401 860 1,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 91.10% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 641 866
10th Percentile £270 £263 £338
25th Percentile £463 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.18%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £651
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 16
10th Percentile £18.58 - £40.63
25th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £61.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%
75th Percentile £39.44 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 - £83.75
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings that featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Engineer in Wiltshire

Linux Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux Engineer in Wiltshire

Linux Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Engineer in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Engineer in Wiltshire

Linux Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham +31 2 £575 -4.17%
Linux Engineer
South West

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Linux Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wiltshire region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) OCA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) RHCA
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) NsoIT
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) OCA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (100.00%) RHCA
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) VMware