Linux Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 383 503
Rank change year-on-year +77 +120 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 53 97 123
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.39% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 83 89
10th Percentile £425 £414 £362
25th Percentile £463 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £713 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.25
25th Percentile £72.50 - £33.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £56.88
90th Percentile - - £58.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +32.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,386 24,802 42,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.34% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,612 17,511 30,752
10th Percentile £325 £358 £355
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 576 607
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.85
25th Percentile £22.68 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Linux Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Linux Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 26 April 2024, 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 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 32 (60.38%) Python
3 19 (35.85%) Ansible
4 17 (32.08%) Red Hat
5 16 (30.19%) Perl
6 12 (22.64%) VMware
6 12 (22.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (22.64%) Git
6 12 (22.64%) DevOps
7 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
7 11 (20.75%) Finance
7 11 (20.75%) Windows
8 10 (18.87%) Unix
8 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
8 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
9 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (16.98%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (16.98%) Docker
9 9 (16.98%) Bash
9 9 (16.98%) OO
9 9 (16.98%) Scrum
9 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (15.09%) Agile
11 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
11 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
12 6 (11.32%) Degree
12 6 (11.32%) Kanban
12 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP

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 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) IIS
2 2 (3.77%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.43%) AWS
1 5 (9.43%) IaaS
1 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
2 4 (7.55%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) GitHub
3 3 (5.66%) WhatsApp
4 1 (1.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.55%) SAN
3 3 (5.66%) Firewall
3 3 (5.66%) HTTP
4 2 (3.77%) H.323
5 1 (1.89%) DHCP
5 1 (1.89%) DNS
5 1 (1.89%) Internet
5 1 (1.89%) NFC
5 1 (1.89%) PPP
5 1 (1.89%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) Big Data
2 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Git
2 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.32%) Artifactory
3 6 (11.32%) GitLab
4 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.55%) JIRA
5 3 (5.66%) Gradle
6 1 (1.89%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.89%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.89%) Maven
6 1 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.89%) Subversion
6 1 (1.89%) TestRail
6 1 (1.89%) Valgrind
6 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (20.75%) Finance
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) YAML
2 4 (7.55%) XML
3 3 (5.66%) RESTful
3 3 (5.66%) SOAP
3 3 (5.66%) Spring
3 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.89%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) Twisted
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) IVR
4 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Smartcard
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (22.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (20.75%) Windows
4 10 (18.87%) Unix
5 5 (9.43%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.55%) Solaris
6 4 (7.55%) VMS
7 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
8 2 (3.77%) CentOS
8 2 (3.77%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.64%) DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
3 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (16.98%) OO
4 9 (16.98%) Scrum
5 8 (15.09%) Agile
6 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
6 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (11.32%) High Availability
7 6 (11.32%) Kanban
7 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (9.43%) Open Source
8 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (7.55%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (7.55%) Remediation Plan
9 4 (7.55%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Python
2 16 (30.19%) Perl
3 9 (16.98%) Bash
4 6 (11.32%) C++
4 6 (11.32%) Java
5 4 (7.55%) C#
5 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.55%) SQL
6 3 (5.66%) Korn
6 3 (5.66%) Ruby
7 2 (3.77%) C
7 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) GDPR
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Docker
1 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.66%) VirtualBox
3 3 (5.66%) vSphere
4 2 (3.77%) Ceph
4 2 (3.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.89%) KVM
5 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (35.85%) Ansible
2 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.32%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (7.55%) Grafana
4 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.55%) Puppet
4 4 (7.55%) Terraform
5 2 (3.77%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.77%) Pacemaker
5 2 (3.77%) Podman
5 2 (3.77%) SELinux
6 1 (1.89%) Check_MK
6 1 (1.89%) Consul
6 1 (1.89%) Salt
6 1 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Red Hat
2 12 (22.64%) VMware
3 6 (11.32%) Oracle
4 5 (9.43%) Sun
5 3 (5.66%) SolarWinds
5 3 (5.66%) TOWER Software
6 2 (3.77%) Avaya
6 2 (3.77%) BMC
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.77%) Verint
7 1 (1.89%) Google
7 1 (1.89%) Symantec
7 1 (1.89%) Veritas