Linux Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 468 612
Rank change year-on-year +133 +144 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Infrastructure Engineer 14 6 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.023% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.024% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile - £415 £382
25th Percentile £488 £422 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.32% +11.88% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £483 £520
90th Percentile - £498 £576
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £475
% change year-on-year +3.96% +6.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
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 £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer.

Linux Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Linux Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Python
3 9 (64.29%) Red Hat
3 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (57.14%) Ansible
5 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (35.71%) Git
6 5 (35.71%) IaaS
6 5 (35.71%) DevOps
6 5 (35.71%) Perl
6 5 (35.71%) VMware
7 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
7 4 (28.57%) Finance
7 4 (28.57%) Docker
7 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
7 4 (28.57%) Bash
7 4 (28.57%) Puppet
8 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 3 (21.43%) GitHub
8 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
8 3 (21.43%) AWS
8 3 (21.43%) GitLab
8 3 (21.43%) TOWER Software
8 3 (21.43%) Windows
8 3 (21.43%) Sun
8 3 (21.43%) Ruby

Linux Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) IaaS
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) CentOS
4 2 (14.29%) Debian
4 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Asset Management
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Automated Trading
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.14%) Low Latency
5 1 (7.14%) Open Source
5 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Secrets Management
5 1 (7.14%) Server Management
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Perl
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) Korn
4 3 (21.43%) Ruby
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Puppet
3 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (7.14%) Consul
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Red Hat
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Sun
3 3 (21.43%) TOWER Software