Linux Contracts in Wiltshire

Linux
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -23 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 50 83 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 5.30% 7.52% 11.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.57% 41.09% 53.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 73 60
10th Percentile - £389 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% +1.85% +23.43%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £657
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £78.00 £25.25
25th Percentile - £78.75 £47.15
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - +30.34% -
75th Percentile - £106.25 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 £71.83
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 175 202 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.54% 18.30% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 174 126
10th Percentile £325 £183 £150
25th Percentile £463 £263 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.16%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £575
90th Percentile £700 £669 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 10
10th Percentile - - £15.79
25th Percentile - £60.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - -8.76% +38.10%
75th Percentile - £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £102.50 £75.10
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.80% +118.86%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Wiltshire

Linux
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 within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -9 41 £700 +21.74% 5
Swindon +9 3 £425 -10.53% 14
Salisbury +3 2 £500 +2.05% 2
Malmesbury 0 1 £550 +10.00%
Linux
South West

Linux
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 24 (48.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) nginx
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.00%) AWS
1 2 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (2.00%) GCP
2 1 (2.00%) IaaS
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) VSAN
2 4 (8.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) Skype
3 2 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.00%) Internet
4 1 (2.00%) NAS
4 1 (2.00%) SAN
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (50.00%) JIRA
2 24 (48.00%) Bitbucket
3 23 (46.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 22 (44.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.00%) Git
6 1 (2.00%) GitLab
6 1 (2.00%) GoCD
6 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (36.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Electronics
5 1 (2.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Public Speaking
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (4.00%) Analyst
3 2 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (4.00%) Lead
3 2 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (4.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Automation Architect
4 1 (2.00%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (2.00%) Consultant
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) Office Automation Architect
4 1 (2.00%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (48.00%) .NET
2 23 (46.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.00%) Lucene
4 1 (2.00%) ModSecurity
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) PKI
2 14 (28.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.00%) SUSE
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) RTLinux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Task Automation
2 23 (46.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (46.00%) Configuration Management
2 23 (46.00%) Deployment Automation
2 23 (46.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 23 (46.00%) OO
2 23 (46.00%) OOP
3 22 (44.00%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (24.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 8 (16.00%) Agile
6 5 (10.00%) Scrum
6 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.00%) DevOps
7 3 (6.00%) DevSecOps
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (6.00%) NsoIT
8 2 (4.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) PowerShell
1 26 (52.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) C++
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) C
3 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (4.00%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 45 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (68.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) JTAG
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) VMware NSX
2 13 (26.00%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (26.00%) vSphere
3 6 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (50.00%) Ansible
2 24 (48.00%) PowerCLI
3 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) VxRail
4 1 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (2.00%) OPNET
4 1 (2.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.00%) SCCM
4 1 (2.00%) SCOM
4 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Atlassian
2 22 (44.00%) Dell
2 22 (44.00%) HP
3 21 (42.00%) VMware
4 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.00%) Splunk
6 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco
7 1 (2.00%) Citrix
7 1 (2.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) SAP