Linux Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 474 613
Rank change year-on-year +139 +139 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 13 2 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.086% 0.008% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.008% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile - £455 -
25th Percentile £225 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £478 £625
Median % change year-on-year -47.64% -23.60% +51.52%
75th Percentile £280 £493 -
90th Percentile £296 £502 £634
UK median daily rate £250 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -54.55% -12.00% +51.52%

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 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £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 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Linux Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Specialist
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 Specialist.

Linux Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Linux Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Finance
3 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
4 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (38.46%) AWS
4 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (38.46%) Qualys
4 5 (38.46%) VMware
4 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
4 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
4 5 (38.46%) ITIL
4 5 (38.46%) Unix
4 5 (38.46%) Ansible
4 5 (38.46%) Security Patching
5 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (15.38%) ITSM
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (15.38%) SLA
6 2 (15.38%) Puppet
6 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (15.38%) Serverless
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS

Linux Specialist 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 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Route 53
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Electronics
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Security Patching
1 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) ITSM
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Qualys
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) SaltStack
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) SAP