Linux Contracts in Wiltshire

Linux
South West > Wiltshire

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Linux 29 90 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 6.47% 9.81% 8.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.21% 43.06% 46.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 72 70
10th Percentile £505 £463 £416
25th Percentile £563 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £608
90th Percentile £663 - £675
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £106.25
90th Percentile - - £110.00
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -2.86% +6.70% +0.93%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 96 209 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.43% 22.79% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 178 149
10th Percentile £220 £442 £200
25th Percentile £266 £475 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £647
South West median daily rate £490 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -8.84% +3.37% +21.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +137.74%
75th Percentile - - £81.75
90th Percentile - - £100.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +21.80%

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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 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 -2 25 £580 +0.26% 7
Swindon 0 3 £550 +29.41% 25
Chippenham - 1 - - 6
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 8 (27.59%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) IaaS
2 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (6.90%) VSAN
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (62.07%) Git
2 11 (37.93%) Bitbucket
2 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
3 8 (27.59%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Electronics
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Architect
5 1 (3.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) REST
1 11 (37.93%) SOAP
2 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) LAMP
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) ModSecurity
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.90%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Configuration Management
2 17 (58.62%) NsoIT
3 12 (41.38%) Agile
4 11 (37.93%) Deployment Automation
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Automation
5 10 (34.48%) Reverse Engineering
5 10 (34.48%) Service Management
5 10 (34.48%) Validation
6 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
6 9 (31.03%) System Testing
7 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) DevOps
8 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (6.90%) Benchmarking
9 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (6.90%) ITIL
9 2 (6.90%) Security Hardening
9 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 19 (65.52%) PowerShell
3 14 (48.28%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (89.66%) SC Cleared
1 26 (89.66%) Security Cleared
2 18 (62.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (37.93%) OCA
3 11 (37.93%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (34.48%) CCNP
4 10 (34.48%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (34.48%) RHCA
4 10 (34.48%) RHCE
5 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) Degree
6 1 (3.45%) MCSA
6 1 (3.45%) MCSE
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.90%) vSphere
5 1 (3.45%) Docker
5 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (79.31%) Ansible
2 12 (41.38%) Puppet
2 12 (41.38%) vCenter Server
3 10 (34.48%) Progress Chef
3 10 (34.48%) Terraform
4 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.90%) Nessus
6 1 (3.45%) OPNET
6 1 (3.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) PowerCLI
6 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.45%) SCCM
6 1 (3.45%) VxRail
6 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) VMware
2 12 (41.38%) Cisco
2 12 (41.38%) Oracle
3 9 (31.03%) Atlassian
4 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.90%) F5
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.45%) Veeam