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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 77 93 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.92% 8.61% 11.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.56% 46.04% 52.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 79 60
10th Percentile £463 £412 £424
25th Percentile £500 £459 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -6.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £700 £618 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £657
South West median daily rate £579 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.18% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £78.00 -
25th Percentile - £78.75 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +239.62% -
75th Percentile - £106.25 £69.05
90th Percentile - £110.00 £73.22
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +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 205 202 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.09% 18.70% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 168 132
10th Percentile £403 £200 £151
25th Percentile £463 £263 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £647 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £60.00 £15.53
25th Percentile - £60.38 £20.56
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +137.74% -47.00%
75th Percentile - £81.75 £48.40
90th Percentile - £100.00 £71.83
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £51.66
% change year-on-year -0.38% +26.30% +164.73%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +3 66 £649 +17.91% 13
Swindon +5 4 £425 -10.53% 16
Salisbury +3 3 £500 +11.11% 1
Malmesbury -3 1 £550 +4.76%
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 27 (35.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.79%) AWS
1 6 (7.79%) Azure
2 4 (5.19%) GCP
2 4 (5.19%) OpenShift
2 4 (5.19%) PaaS
3 1 (1.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.78%) VSAN
2 5 (6.49%) Firewall
3 4 (5.19%) VPN
4 3 (3.90%) Skype
5 2 (2.60%) DNS
5 2 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.60%) MySQL
3 1 (1.30%) DB2
3 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) JIRA
2 27 (35.06%) Bitbucket
3 23 (29.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 22 (28.57%) Jenkins
5 12 (15.58%) Git
6 1 (1.30%) GitLab
6 1 (1.30%) GoCD
6 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 24 (31.17%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (23.38%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Electronics
6 1 (1.30%) Finance
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Marketing
6 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Public Speaking
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Developer
2 16 (20.78%) VMware Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (5.19%) Automation Architect
5 3 (3.90%) Office Automation Architect
6 2 (2.60%) Analyst
6 2 (2.60%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (2.60%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) Lead
6 2 (2.60%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (2.60%) VMware Specialist
6 2 (2.60%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (1.30%) Consultant
7 1 (1.30%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (35.06%) .NET
2 23 (29.87%) .NET Core
3 9 (11.69%) YAML
4 5 (6.49%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.19%) ModSecurity
6 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.30%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.30%) Lucene
7 1 (1.30%) OAuth
7 1 (1.30%) OpenID
7 1 (1.30%) React
7 1 (1.30%) REST
7 1 (1.30%) SAML
7 1 (1.30%) Vue
7 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) PKI
2 17 (22.08%) Data Centre
3 7 (9.09%) SCADA
4 6 (7.79%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 19 (24.68%) Windows
3 3 (3.90%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.60%) CentOS
4 2 (2.60%) SUSE
4 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.30%) RTLinux
5 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (45.45%) Infrastructure Automation
2 32 (41.56%) Configuration Management
3 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
4 24 (31.17%) Task Automation
5 23 (29.87%) Deployment Automation
5 23 (29.87%) OO
5 23 (29.87%) OOP
6 22 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (19.48%) Converged Infrastructure
8 12 (15.58%) Agile
9 11 (14.29%) DevOps
10 9 (11.69%) Validation
11 8 (10.39%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 7 (9.09%) DevSecOps
12 7 (9.09%) NsoIT
13 6 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (7.79%) Customer Requirements
13 6 (7.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) PowerShell
2 29 (37.66%) Python
3 4 (5.19%) SQL
4 3 (3.90%) C++
5 2 (2.60%) C
5 2 (2.60%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.60%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 70 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 54 (70.13%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.08%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.39%) Degree
5 5 (6.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.60%) MCSE
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) SLA
2 2 (2.60%) GDPR
2 2 (2.60%) JTAG
2 2 (2.60%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) VMware NSX
2 17 (22.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (20.78%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (19.48%) vSphere
5 9 (11.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
6 4 (5.19%) Docker
7 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.30%) NFS
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (48.05%) Ansible
2 27 (35.06%) PowerCLI
3 14 (18.18%) Terraform
4 10 (12.99%) Puppet
5 9 (11.69%) Progress Chef
5 9 (11.69%) Salt
6 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.19%) OPNET
7 2 (2.60%) VxRail
7 2 (2.60%) WSUS
8 1 (1.30%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.30%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.30%) SCOM
8 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (46.75%) VMware
2 27 (35.06%) Atlassian
3 22 (28.57%) Dell
3 22 (28.57%) HP
4 21 (27.27%) Red Hat
5 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
6 8 (10.39%) SaltStack
7 4 (5.19%) Cisco
7 4 (5.19%) Google
8 3 (3.90%) Splunk
9 2 (2.60%) SAP
10 1 (1.30%) Citrix
10 1 (1.30%) IBM