Linux Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 28 38
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Linux 685 1,703 2,629
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.50% 6.65% 5.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.16% 48.28% 48.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 1,178 1,808
10th Percentile £325 £418 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £638
90th Percentile £708 £751 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.74% +14.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 57 47
10th Percentile £37.28 £47.00 £42.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +12.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,587 3,527 5,470
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.42% 13.78% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 2,488 3,861
10th Percentile £223 £250 £298
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £604
90th Percentile £681 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £468 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +0.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 102 163
10th Percentile £13.05 £19.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £14.27 £39.60 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +29.41% +14.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.07% +76.00% +26.62%

Linux
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Linux daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Linux daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Linux hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Linux hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux
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 46 (6.72%) Confluence
2 33 (4.82%) nginx
3 24 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (3.36%) OpenStack
5 14 (2.04%) Apache
6 11 (1.61%) IIS
6 11 (1.61%) NetWeaver
7 8 (1.17%) Apache Spark
7 8 (1.17%) JBoss
7 8 (1.17%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.73%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.58%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.58%) Luigi
10 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.29%) Appian
11 2 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (1.61%) SAP IBP
2 4 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.44%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.29%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.29%) Endur
4 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.29%) Shopify
4 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) BASE24
5 1 (0.15%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 179 (26.13%) AWS
2 165 (24.09%) Azure
3 49 (7.15%) GitHub
4 34 (4.96%) IaaS
5 32 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (4.67%) PaaS
5 32 (4.67%) Serverless
6 29 (4.23%) GCP
6 29 (4.23%) OpenShift
7 27 (3.94%) Entra ID
8 26 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (3.50%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (2.92%) Azure Storage
11 19 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.77%) SaaS
12 16 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (2.34%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 79 (11.53%) Firewall
2 60 (8.76%) TCP/IP
3 59 (8.61%) DNS
4 41 (5.99%) SAN
5 37 (5.40%) DHCP
6 25 (3.65%) SSL
7 18 (2.63%) Network Security
8 17 (2.48%) LAN
9 16 (2.34%) VPN
10 14 (2.04%) VLAN
10 14 (2.04%) WAN
11 11 (1.61%) HTTP
12 9 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (1.17%) NAS
14 7 (1.02%) 4G
14 7 (1.02%) FTP
14 7 (1.02%) Kerberos
14 7 (1.02%) Wireshark
15 6 (0.88%) BGP
15 6 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 32 (4.67%) MySQL
3 27 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.50%) Oracle Database
6 23 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 22 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.90%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.75%) RDBMS
10 12 (1.75%) SAP HANA
11 11 (1.61%) SAP BW
12 10 (1.46%) Big Data
13 8 (1.17%) Apache Hive
13 8 (1.17%) MariaDB
14 7 (1.02%) Couchbase
14 7 (1.02%) DB2
14 7 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (10.66%) Jenkins
2 70 (10.22%) Git
3 61 (8.91%) JIRA
4 40 (5.84%) GitLab
5 21 (3.07%) Bitbucket
6 16 (2.34%) Artifactory
7 13 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.88%) Maven
10 6 (0.88%) Selenium
10 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.73%) Postman
11 5 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.58%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.58%) Gradle
12 4 (0.58%) IDA Disassembler
12 4 (0.58%) Mockito
12 4 (0.58%) Subversion
12 4 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 184 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 119 (17.37%) Finance
3 69 (10.07%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.38%) Banking
6 29 (4.23%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.34%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.90%) Marketing
10 10 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.31%) Electronics
12 7 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.02%) Front Office
12 7 (1.02%) Legal
12 7 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.44%) French Language
Job Titles
1 111 (16.20%) Developer
2 78 (11.39%) Senior
3 71 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (7.45%) Linux Engineer
5 41 (5.99%) Architect
6 38 (5.55%) Consultant
7 36 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 32 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (4.53%) Administrator
10 29 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (3.80%) DBA
12 25 (3.65%) Python Developer
13 23 (3.36%) Support Engineer
14 20 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (2.92%) Lead
14 20 (2.92%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (2.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
16 18 (2.63%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.26%) Kafka
2 31 (4.53%) Middleware
3 30 (4.38%) HTML
4 29 (4.23%) YAML
5 28 (4.09%) CSS
6 27 (3.94%) Web Services
7 26 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (3.21%) .NET
8 22 (3.21%) Laravel
9 21 (3.07%) ARM Templates
9 21 (3.07%) REST
10 20 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (2.77%) LDAP
12 18 (2.63%) RESTful
12 18 (2.63%) Sass
13 17 (2.48%) JSON
14 14 (2.04%) Spring
15 12 (1.75%) WebSockets
16 11 (1.61%) React
16 11 (1.61%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.69%) Data Centre
2 35 (5.11%) PKI
3 31 (4.53%) Linux Command Line
4 30 (4.38%) Replication
5 29 (4.23%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.77%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.48%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.90%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.75%) Clustering
12 10 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.46%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
15 6 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 237 (34.60%) Windows
2 135 (19.71%) Unix
3 80 (11.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (9.49%) Windows Server
5 52 (7.59%) Ubuntu
6 23 (3.36%) CentOS
7 22 (3.21%) Solaris
8 21 (3.07%) Debian
9 19 (2.77%) VMS
9 19 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (2.77%) zOS
10 18 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (2.19%) Oracle Linux
12 14 (2.04%) AIX
13 8 (1.17%) Apple iOS
13 8 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (1.02%) Android
15 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.58%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.44%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (27.15%) DevOps
2 172 (25.11%) Agile
3 144 (21.02%) CI/CD
4 98 (14.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (9.78%) Migration
7 66 (9.64%) ITIL
8 60 (8.76%) Test Automation
9 55 (8.03%) Microservices
10 52 (7.59%) Software Engineering
11 51 (7.45%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (6.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 46 (6.72%) Configuration Management
14 45 (6.57%) Analytics
15 43 (6.28%) Performance Tuning
16 42 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 41 (5.99%) High Availability
18 40 (5.84%) OO
19 36 (5.26%) Containerisation
19 36 (5.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 217 (31.68%) Python
2 96 (14.01%) Bash
3 81 (11.82%) SQL
4 79 (11.53%) Java
5 66 (9.64%) PowerShell
6 57 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 50 (7.30%) Perl
8 44 (6.42%) C#
9 43 (6.28%) C++
10 42 (6.13%) Shell Script
11 30 (4.38%) PHP
12 23 (3.36%) C
12 23 (3.36%) Go
13 21 (3.07%) Bicep
14 17 (2.48%) VB
15 16 (2.34%) VBScript
16 14 (2.04%) JCL
17 12 (1.75%) REXX
17 12 (1.75%) Scala
18 11 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 127 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 72 (10.51%) Degree
4 70 (10.22%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (1.17%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.17%) SAP Certification
7 6 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.58%) CEH
8 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.58%) CISSP
8 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.58%) OSCP
9 3 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.44%) GIAC
9 3 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.11%) QA
2 19 (2.77%) GDPR
3 14 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.90%) NIST
5 11 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.46%) SLA
7 7 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.15%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (14.01%) Active Directory
2 81 (11.82%) Docker
3 54 (7.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (3.07%) NFS
6 18 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (2.34%) Firmware
8 15 (2.19%) VMware NSX
9 14 (2.04%) Time Sharing Option
10 13 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (1.75%) vSphere
12 11 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 8 (1.17%) Hyper-V
14 7 (1.02%) HDFS
14 7 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.73%) KVM
15 5 (0.73%) Snort
16 3 (0.44%) FreeRADIUS
16 3 (0.44%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 140 (20.44%) Ansible
2 132 (19.27%) Kubernetes
3 97 (14.16%) Terraform
4 46 (6.72%) Grafana
5 38 (5.55%) Puppet
6 37 (5.40%) Prometheus
7 29 (4.23%) SCCM
8 21 (3.07%) Progress Chef
9 20 (2.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 19 (2.77%) Kibana
11 18 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (2.63%) SCOM
11 18 (2.63%) WSUS
12 16 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (2.19%) Consul
14 13 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
15 12 (1.75%) Data Guard
16 11 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
17 10 (1.46%) Nagios
18 9 (1.31%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 131 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 91 (13.28%) VMware
3 80 (11.68%) Red Hat
4 74 (10.80%) Oracle
5 43 (6.28%) Dell
6 40 (5.84%) IBM
7 33 (4.82%) Splunk
8 28 (4.09%) SAP
9 25 (3.65%) Atlassian
10 23 (3.36%) Cisco
11 21 (3.07%) Qualys
12 19 (2.77%) Brocade
12 19 (2.77%) Google
12 19 (2.77%) HP
13 15 (2.19%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.04%) Broadcom
14 14 (2.04%) CA
14 14 (2.04%) CyberArk
14 14 (2.04%) Isilon
14 14 (2.04%) SaltStack