Linux Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, 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 250 293 382
Rank change year-on-year +43 +89 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 54 52 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 78
10th Percentile £402 £425 £413
25th Percentile £441 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £713
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -1.45% -5.91% +6.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Engineer.

Linux Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Linux Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Engineer.

Linux Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (42.59%) Red Hat
3 20 (37.04%) Python
4 18 (33.33%) Unix
5 17 (31.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (25.93%) VMware
6 14 (25.93%) Ansible
7 13 (24.07%) Shell Script
7 13 (24.07%) Bash
8 12 (22.22%) C++
9 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
9 10 (18.52%) DevOps
9 10 (18.52%) Ubuntu
10 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
10 9 (16.67%) Perl
11 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
11 8 (14.81%) Windows
11 8 (14.81%) Configuration Management
11 8 (14.81%) AWS
11 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
11 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
11 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
12 7 (12.96%) Windows Server
12 7 (12.96%) Middleware
12 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
12 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
12 7 (12.96%) Puppet
12 7 (12.96%) GitHub
12 7 (12.96%) Finance

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.70%) nginx
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) AWS
2 7 (12.96%) GitHub
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
4 3 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.85%) Datadog
5 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) DNS
2 5 (9.26%) DHCP
3 4 (7.41%) Firewall
3 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.56%) NAS
4 3 (5.56%) SAN
4 3 (5.56%) SSH
5 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) MariaDB
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) GitLab
2 4 (7.41%) Maven
3 3 (5.56%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.70%) Law
3 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) Middleware
2 4 (7.41%) LDAP
3 1 (1.85%) cloud-init
3 1 (1.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.85%) Clustering
3 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.85%) NVMe
3 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (33.33%) Unix
3 17 (31.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (18.52%) Ubuntu
5 8 (14.81%) Windows
6 7 (12.96%) Windows Server
7 4 (7.41%) AIX
7 4 (7.41%) CentOS
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (5.56%) SUSE
9 2 (3.70%) HPUX
9 2 (3.70%) Solaris
10 1 (1.85%) Rocky
10 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) DevOps
2 8 (14.81%) Configuration Management
2 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
2 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
3 7 (12.96%) OO
4 6 (11.11%) Migration
4 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.26%) ITIL
5 5 (9.26%) Network Architecture
5 5 (9.26%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
6 4 (7.41%) Data Protection
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.56%) Low Latency
7 3 (5.56%) Problem Management
7 3 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 3 (5.56%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) Python
2 13 (24.07%) Bash
2 13 (24.07%) Shell Script
3 12 (22.22%) C++
4 9 (16.67%) Perl
5 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.96%) Ada
6 7 (12.96%) C
7 4 (7.41%) Java
8 1 (1.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) NIST
1 2 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) Docker
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Ansible
2 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.96%) Puppet
4 6 (11.11%) Terraform
5 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (7.41%) Progress Chef
7 3 (5.56%) SELinux
8 2 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.70%) Tivoli
8 2 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.85%) Cobbler
9 1 (1.85%) Grafana
9 1 (1.85%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (1.85%) Nagios
9 1 (1.85%) Packer
9 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.85%) yum
9 1 (1.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) Red Hat
2 14 (25.93%) VMware
3 3 (5.56%) HP
3 3 (5.56%) Splunk
3 3 (5.56%) Zscaler
4 2 (3.70%) IBM
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Dell
5 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.85%) EMC
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.85%) New Relic
5 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.85%) Tanium
5 1 (1.85%) Veritas