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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 30 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Linux 662 1,586 2,518
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.52% 6.49% 5.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.38% 47.97% 47.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 1,090 1,732
10th Percentile £325 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £650
90th Percentile £710 £763 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.39% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 58 42
10th Percentile £42.97 £47.50 £35.63
25th Percentile £53.79 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70.63 £70.96 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +15.00%

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 1,526 3,306 5,329
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 13.53% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,331 3,780
10th Percentile £225 £243 £300
25th Percentile £356 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £505
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +2.97% +9.19%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £685 £730 £688
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.05% +0.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 106 139
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.90
25th Percentile £14.14 £25.71 £19.31
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £40.70 £67.50 £62.58
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £69.10
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £40.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.16% +79.09% +28.57%

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 23 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

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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 23 May 2024.

Linux hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 44 (6.65%) Confluence
2 37 (5.59%) nginx
3 27 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (3.02%) OpenStack
5 15 (2.27%) Apache
6 11 (1.66%) NetWeaver
7 8 (1.21%) JBoss
8 6 (0.91%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.76%) IIS
9 5 (0.76%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 5 (0.76%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.60%) Luigi
10 4 (0.60%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (1.66%) SAP IBP
2 3 (0.45%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.15%) BASE24
4 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.15%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 181 (27.34%) AWS
2 161 (24.32%) Azure
3 43 (6.50%) GitHub
4 35 (5.29%) PaaS
5 33 (4.98%) GCP
5 33 (4.98%) OpenShift
6 31 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (4.68%) Serverless
7 29 (4.38%) IaaS
8 28 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
9 27 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.08%) Entra ID
9 27 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.47%) Amazon S3
11 22 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (3.32%) Azure Storage
12 20 (3.02%) SaaS
13 17 (2.57%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 15 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.18%) Firewall
2 51 (7.70%) DNS
3 46 (6.95%) TCP/IP
4 35 (5.29%) DHCP
5 32 (4.83%) SAN
6 18 (2.72%) SSL
7 15 (2.27%) LAN
7 15 (2.27%) Network Security
8 12 (1.81%) VLAN
8 12 (1.81%) WAN
9 10 (1.51%) VPN
10 9 (1.36%) HTTP
10 9 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (1.06%) FTP
11 7 (1.06%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.06%) SSH
11 7 (1.06%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (0.91%) NAS
12 6 (0.91%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.29%) MySQL
2 33 (4.98%) SQL Server
3 31 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.78%) Oracle Database
6 22 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.81%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.81%) SAP HANA
11 11 (1.66%) SAP BW
12 10 (1.51%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.36%) Big Data
14 8 (1.21%) DB2
14 8 (1.21%) MariaDB
15 7 (1.06%) Couchbase
16 6 (0.91%) Oracle ODI
16 6 (0.91%) Power BI
16 6 (0.91%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 72 (10.88%) Jenkins
2 68 (10.27%) Git
3 54 (8.16%) JIRA
4 40 (6.04%) GitLab
5 21 (3.17%) Bitbucket
6 19 (2.87%) Artifactory
7 15 (2.27%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.06%) Selenium
10 6 (0.91%) Maven
11 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.60%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.60%) Gradle
12 4 (0.60%) IDA Disassembler
12 4 (0.60%) Mockito
12 4 (0.60%) Postman
12 4 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 184 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 117 (17.67%) Finance
3 69 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 52 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.78%) Banking
5 25 (3.78%) Telecoms
6 18 (2.72%) Manufacturing
7 15 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.11%) Marketing
9 11 (1.66%) Front Office
9 11 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.51%) Electronics
11 7 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.76%) Legal
12 5 (0.76%) Retail
13 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 95 (14.35%) Developer
2 77 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (11.48%) Senior
4 47 (7.10%) Linux Engineer
5 43 (6.50%) Architect
6 36 (5.44%) Python Engineer
7 35 (5.29%) Consultant
8 31 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (4.23%) Administrator
10 27 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (3.63%) DBA
11 24 (3.63%) Support Engineer
12 23 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 22 (3.32%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (2.87%) Active Directory Support
16 19 (2.87%) Applications Engineer
16 19 (2.87%) Site Engineer
17 18 (2.72%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.19%) Kafka
2 32 (4.83%) HTML
3 31 (4.68%) Middleware
4 30 (4.53%) CSS
5 29 (4.38%) YAML
6 27 (4.08%) Web Services
7 25 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (3.63%) REST
9 23 (3.47%) Laravel
10 22 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (3.02%) .NET
11 20 (3.02%) LDAP
11 20 (3.02%) RESTful
12 19 (2.87%) ARM Templates
12 19 (2.87%) Sass
13 16 (2.42%) JSON
14 14 (2.11%) Spring
15 13 (1.96%) WebSockets
16 11 (1.66%) AWS CDK
16 11 (1.66%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.04%) Data Centre
2 37 (5.59%) PKI
3 30 (4.53%) Replication
4 28 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 27 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (3.63%) Management Information System
8 23 (3.47%) Public Cloud
9 20 (3.02%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.72%) Cloud Native
11 16 (2.42%) Product Ownership
12 15 (2.27%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.81%) Clustering
13 12 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (1.81%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.91%) Derivative
15 6 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
15 6 (0.91%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 225 (33.99%) Windows
2 134 (20.24%) Unix
3 66 (9.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (9.06%) Windows Server
5 47 (7.10%) Ubuntu
6 22 (3.32%) Solaris
7 21 (3.17%) CentOS
7 21 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (2.87%) zOS
10 15 (2.27%) AIX
10 15 (2.27%) VMS
11 14 (2.11%) Debian
11 14 (2.11%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (1.66%) Apple iOS
13 10 (1.51%) Android
14 6 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.91%) Rocky
15 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.60%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (27.95%) DevOps
2 161 (24.32%) Agile
3 140 (21.15%) CI/CD
4 97 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 61 (9.21%) Test Automation
7 59 (8.91%) ITIL
8 57 (8.61%) Microservices
9 55 (8.31%) Migration
10 50 (7.55%) Software Engineering
11 49 (7.40%) Analytics
12 48 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
13 46 (6.95%) Continuous Integration
14 44 (6.65%) Containerisation
15 43 (6.50%) Performance Tuning
16 42 (6.34%) Configuration Management
17 39 (5.89%) Computer Science
18 38 (5.74%) High Availability
18 38 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 38 (5.74%) OO
Programming Languages
1 202 (30.51%) Python
2 86 (12.99%) Bash
3 76 (11.48%) Java
4 68 (10.27%) PowerShell
5 67 (10.12%) SQL
6 57 (8.61%) JavaScript
7 45 (6.80%) Shell Script
8 44 (6.65%) C#
9 41 (6.19%) Perl
10 39 (5.89%) C++
11 31 (4.68%) PHP
12 28 (4.23%) Go
13 23 (3.47%) Bicep
14 21 (3.17%) C
15 19 (2.87%) VB
16 18 (2.72%) VBScript
17 14 (2.11%) JCL
18 12 (1.81%) REXX
19 9 (1.36%) TypeScript
20 7 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 177 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 122 (18.43%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.33%) Degree
4 70 (10.57%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 9 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.21%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.21%) SAP Certification
9 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.60%) CEH
11 4 (0.60%) CISSP
11 4 (0.60%) GIAC
11 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.60%) OSCP
12 3 (0.45%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.83%) QA
2 18 (2.72%) GDPR
3 14 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.96%) NIST
5 11 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.51%) SLA
7 6 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.76%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
11 1 (0.15%) MISRA
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 94 (14.20%) Active Directory
2 93 (14.05%) Docker
3 52 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (6.95%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (3.17%) NFS
6 20 (3.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (2.27%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 13 (1.96%) Firmware
9 13 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (1.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 12 (1.81%) vSphere
11 8 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (1.06%) HDFS
12 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
13 5 (0.76%) KVM
13 5 (0.76%) Snort
14 3 (0.45%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.45%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 151 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 135 (20.39%) Ansible
3 97 (14.65%) Terraform
4 48 (7.25%) Grafana
5 39 (5.89%) Prometheus
6 33 (4.98%) Puppet
7 27 (4.08%) SCCM
8 21 (3.17%) SCOM
8 21 (3.17%) WSUS
9 20 (3.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (2.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 18 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (2.72%) Progress Chef
12 17 (2.57%) Consul
12 17 (2.57%) Kibana
13 12 (1.81%) Data Guard
14 10 (1.51%) EMC NetWorker
15 9 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
15 9 (1.36%) NetBackup
16 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 126 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 82 (12.39%) VMware
3 75 (11.33%) Oracle
4 71 (10.73%) Red Hat
5 42 (6.34%) Dell
6 37 (5.59%) IBM
7 32 (4.83%) Splunk
8 29 (4.38%) SAP
9 22 (3.32%) Cisco
10 20 (3.02%) Qualys
11 19 (2.87%) Brocade
11 19 (2.87%) Google
12 18 (2.72%) Atlassian
12 18 (2.72%) HP
13 16 (2.42%) CyberArk
13 16 (2.42%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.11%) Broadcom
14 14 (2.11%) CA
14 14 (2.11%) SaltStack
15 13 (1.96%) Isilon