Linux Support Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux Support daily rate in Work from Home is £342 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 460 627
Rank change year-on-year +120 +167 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 5 17 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.066% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.069% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 1
10th Percentile £323 £348 -
25th Percentile £330 £454 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £342 £540 £280
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +92.86% -16.10%
75th Percentile £350 £713 £290
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £333 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -44.50% +20.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £20.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -61.90% -

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 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +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 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Linux Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Linux Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Support
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 Support.

Linux Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Support
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 Support.

Linux Support hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Linux Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Server Management
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) nginx
2 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (60.00%) Temenos T24
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) JBoss
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Temenos
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall

Linux Support 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 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (60.00%) JBoss
2 3 (60.00%) nginx
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) H.323
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) IVR
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) Runbook
1 3 (60.00%) Server Management
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (40.00%) WFM
2 2 (40.00%) Workforce Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Temenos
3 2 (40.00%) Avaya
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Verint